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Zeyad Explains His Biomedical Engineering Project and His Daily Experiences at STARS

Zeyad Explains His Biomedical Engineering Project and His Daily Experiences at STARS

Aug 16, 2017 | News

Zeyad Moustafa returned from STARS with a new appreciation for the scientific process and a new research credentials, which include scientific report writing. Through STARS, Zeyad garnered many laboratory and life skills. Read about his project and his days at STARS...
Jaden Lucas Reflects on His Astrochemistry Course in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes

Jaden Lucas Reflects on His Astrochemistry Course in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes

Aug 11, 2017 | News

Jaden Lucas gives us a window into three weeks of learning and living at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes, where he was enrolled in “Astrochemistry: The Study of Life in Space.” Not only did Jaden study astrochemistry, he also learned about how to conduct...
Gabriela Benyas Describes Learning and Performing at the Midwest Young Artists Chicago Chamber Music Workshop

Gabriela Benyas Describes Learning and Performing at the Midwest Young Artists Chicago Chamber Music Workshop

Aug 8, 2017 | News

Gabriela Benyas spent two weeks in rehearsal and performance as part of the Midwest Young Artists Chicago Chamber Music Workshop (MYA). This was her second enrichment program of the summer sponsored through the Garwin Family Foundation’s Student Sponsorship Program...
Gabriela Benyas Details Her Music Immersion at the Lamont Summer Music Academy

Gabriela Benyas Details Her Music Immersion at the Lamont Summer Music Academy

Aug 8, 2017 | News

Violinist Gabriela Benyas experienced a summer of intensive music instruction and performance through the Garwin Family Foundation’s Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in the Arts, Sciences, and Math. Her first enrichment program was the Lamont Summer...
Ian Kinsel Shares His Structural Engineering Experience in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes

Ian Kinsel Shares His Structural Engineering Experience in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes

Aug 3, 2017 | News

Ian Kinsel spent three weeks engaged in the hands-on application of physics concepts during the structural engineering course at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes. In his report, Ian explains the effective academic instruction, which combined both classroom and...
Peter Huh Reports on His Yong In University Taikwando Training Immersion

Peter Huh Reports on His Yong In University Taikwando Training Immersion

Jul 30, 2017 | News

Peter Huh took advantage of a unique opportunity to advance his skills in the martial art of Taekwondo by training at Yong In University alongside members of the South Korean Taekwondo Olympic Team. In his report, Peter shares how this immersion with elite athletes in...
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Words of Wisdom

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— W. Clement Stone

“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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Plutarch

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

— Rene Descartes

“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

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Aristotle

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Frank McCourt

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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