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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.

Alexander Brown will major in Art & Design at the University of Illinois.

Alexander Brown will major in Art & Design at the University of Illinois.

May 3, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We are pleased to announce that GFF Alumnus Alexander Brown will attend the University of Illinois next fall as an Art and Design major.

Jayla Ware will major in Marine Science at Eckerd College.

Jayla Ware will major in Marine Science at Eckerd College.

May 3, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We are happy to announce that GFF Alumnus Jayla Ware will attend Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she will major in Marine Science.

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Words of Wisdom

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Aristotle

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Aristotle

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Plutarch

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

— Malcolm Forbes

“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 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
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