Well, there are 1.9 million exempt organizations so I would assume it is in existence. In the interim, I will write up open letter and see where that takes me. Thank you for sharing re your experience with high school students.
Charitable Adult Rides & Services, Inc.
Original Message:
Sent: 03-20-2024 13:15
From: Les Servi
Subject: Yes, you! Let's crowdsource a letter to make a difference
MITRE works with a local high school: The high school handles all the legal issues. Yes, dealing with underage students has to be done carefully.
This network is national so there is probably a local chapter near you. I don't remember the details but this program costs around $6k and lets you hire a high school intern one day per week for the 'school year'. btw, this is a Catholic school but many of the students, teachers and Board members are not Catholic (including me).
This short YouTube describes the program: Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School - A Lawrence Success Story (youtube.com)
I bet if anyone calls a school principal and asks to visit to talk about STEM it would not be hard. I did a private school and had a friend who gave a 'number theory for high schoolers" at a public school. It just takes a number of calls.
I don't know about a national match making program but maybe INFORMS could start one!
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Les Servi
Chief Scientist, Cyber Operations Research
The MITRE Corporation
Lincoln MA
Original Message:
Sent: 03-19-2024 17:14
From: Alberto Aparicio
Subject: Yes, you! Let's crowdsource a letter to make a difference
From article, reads like MITRE uses an established program. Les, if you could share that would be helpful.
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Alberto Aparicio
Data Analyst
Charitable Adult Rides & Services, Inc.
San Diego
Original Message:
Sent: 03-19-2024 12:34
From: Les Servi
Subject: Yes, you! Let's crowdsource a letter to make a difference
Great idea to highlight the need to improve STEM at the high school level. However, my suggestion would be to supplement this letter approach by leveraging the size and talents of INFORMS members and engage with student more directly. Specifically,
1) Why not organize to have members visit one of their local high schools?
2) Why not encourage members to try to get of the Board of local (private) high schools or on School committees?
3) For those not at universities, why not hire a high school student or two?
I offer these suggestions because I have done all of these myself, cf https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/student-voice/teenage-work-study-programmer-rises-cyber-challenge-mitre
However, I am only one person. What if 1,000 of our members were to also do this?
Les Servi
lservi@mitre.org
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Les Servi
Chief Scientist, Cyber Operations Research
The MITRE Corporation
Lincoln MA
Original Message:
Sent: 03-11-2024 17:42
From: Elena Gerstmann
Subject: Yes, you! Let's crowdsource a letter to make a difference
Hello INFORMS Members,
Have you had the chance to read my latest column in OR/MS Today? It is a heartfelt letter to middle & high school students that tries to get them excited about analytics, math, operations research, etc. But...it isn't a perfect letter. I believe we can write a better letter – together.
Here is a link to the article.
I would like to enlist your help in perfecting this letter and/or crafting additional letters. Can you improve it? Write your own? Let's see if we can crowdsource a better, more impactful, letter. Once we've polished our letters, I'll coordinate with our exceptional media & external relations team to see how we can reach as many students and teachers as possible.
Please feel free to share your thoughts on this thread. Alternatively, if it is easier, I've attached a Word version of my imperfect letter to this post so feel free to edit away.
Looking forward to your creative and insightful contributions.
With appreciation,
Elena
P.S. Thank you to @Ashley Smith and @Kara Tucker
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Elena Gerstmann, PhD, FASAE, CAE
Executive Director
INFORMS
egerstmann@INFORMS.org
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