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Michelle Wang studies Astrophysics in the Summer Science Program at the University of Colorado.

Michelle Wang studies Astrophysics in the Summer Science Program at the University of Colorado.

Jun 27, 2022 | News

Michelle Wang is studying Astrophysics in the Summer Science Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her first research project involves collaborating with her team to determine the path of a near-earth asteroid.

Samuel Wang studies Cancer Research and Biology in the STARS program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Samuel Wang studies Cancer Research and Biology in the STARS program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Jun 27, 2022 | News

Samuel Wang reports on his experiences while studying Cancer Research and Biology at the St. Louis Students and Teachers as Research Scientists (STARS) program at UMSL. During his first week, he has been exploring the campus, meeting instructors, colleagues, and forming friendships.

Robert Wigfall is studying Biotechnology at the University of Chicago.

Robert Wigfall is studying Biotechnology at the University of Chicago.

Jun 20, 2022 | News

Robert Wigfall is studying Biotechnology at the University of Chicago this summer. As a high school freshman attending a college level course, Robert describes his first three weeks at the University of Chicago as “life altering.”

Jason Qin studies “Linear Algebra with Applications” at Yale University.

Jason Qin studies “Linear Algebra with Applications” at Yale University.

Jun 17, 2022 | News

Jason Qin has been busy with Linear Algebra with Applications classes at Yale University, while juggling his time between finals at IMSA and the American Regions Math League at Iowa. He is excited to report on his first and second weeks at Yale.

Eleven High School Students Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships for Summer 2022 Enrichment Opportunities

Eleven High School Students Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships for Summer 2022 Enrichment Opportunities

May 25, 2022 | News

Eleven outstanding high school students have earned merit-based scholarships from the Garwin Family Foundation (GFF) to attend highly selective enrichment programs in STEM and the Fine Arts.

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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt
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