Elaina Xaio is enrolled in the Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Studies program. During her first week, Elaina participated in Zoom sessions from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Carbondale Community School Library, followed by office hours with her instructor.
By LES ODELL, The Southern (Originally published in the Southern Illinoisian on June 25, 2021) CARBONDALE — Teenagers and summer break. For many it is a time of sleeping in, enjoying a local swimming hole and just taking it easy, focusing on anything but academics. But for 10 students affiliated with Carbondale Community High School, summer is a time to explore topics ranging from number theory to artificial intelligence and pharmacology to climate change.
Ten outstanding Carbondale 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.
The Garwin Family Foundation congratulates Maya Benyas, Charlie Du, and Eli Tsung recently named as National Merit Semifinalists. They will join 16,000 semifinalists competing for Class of 2021 National Merit Scholarships.
Alexander Brown describes his creative experience with a pre-collegiate sculpture course at the Rhode Island School of Design. “We start off the week by watching an hour-long slideshow presented by our teacher, Gail Dodge. We also watch a few other small videos to get us acquainted with the materials and topic of the week. The previous topic was making a sculpture with “found objects”. We could use anything that we could get our hands on to create a piece of art,” Alexander reports.
Longmei Ge reports on the Materials in Science and Engineering course at Stanford University, where she studied exoplanet and star-system research this summer. “Two recently graduated students visited one of our classes to speak to us about binary-star systems, which I thought were absolutely fascinating,” Longmei says.