[Bioundgrd] Fwd: SPLASH! 2004: Deadline Extended to October 30th

[Kathleen Long]

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>                          TEACH ANYTHING
>                             you want
>                             for ESP's
>                           ***SPLASH!***
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>               DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30th
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>This NOVEMBER 20 and 21, hundreds of high school students (over 1100 last
>year!) will be coming to the MIT campus to take enrichment classes offered
>by MIT undergraduate and graduate students (over 150 classes offered last
>year!). The students won't be graded, attendence won't be taken, and they
>won't have to do any homework they don't want to do. They'll come because
>they want to learn.
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>Want to teach?
>
>The MIT Educational Studies Program invites you to teach for Splash!, our
>weekend-long fall program that draws over 1000 motivated high school
>students to the MIT campus to take classes from excited teachers: you!
>
>Want to teach tap dancing? Java? C++? Improv acting? Calculus? Number
>theory? Computer game programming? Science fiction? Political science?
>Knitting?
>
>Whatever it is, we can provide the classroom and the students; all we need
>is your energy and enthusiasm. You can choose your topic (we don't even
>have a set list --- make up whatever you want) as long as what is taught
>is done so in a scholarly manner appropriate for high school students.
>Teach alone or in a group, and specify the length of your class ---
>anywhere from one hour to sixteen hours! Just fill out our form online and
>you'll be signed up to teach!
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>Teach your hobbies. Teach your passions. Teach anything you want, with
>Splash!
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>DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 30, 2004
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>WHAT: SPLASH! 2004
>WHERE: MIT Campus
>WHEN: November 20 and 21
>HOW: With a blackboard.
>URL: http://esp.mit.edu/
>E-MAIL: esp-volunteers at mit.edu
>HOW MUCH OF A COMMITMENT?: One 15-minute interview, one 2-hour training
>session, and the class time (usually about 2 hours, but however long you
>want it). But if you want to do more for Splash, we'd love it! Just send
>us an email and we'll be in touch.
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>Directions for signing up:
>	1) Open your friendly web browser (or not so friendly, in the case
>of IE).
>	2) Navigate yourself over to http://esp.mit.edu
>	3) Register for a "staff" login, and fill out the forms.
>	4) Click on "Splash", and then "Teach anything for Splash"
>	5) Sign up your class--this year, you can choose your times!
>	6) Well, 6 is a perfect number, so this has to be the perfect
>direction ... well, here goes: TEACH!!!
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>	Any questions: esp-volunteers at MIT.edu
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>C U @ SPLASH!!!
>
>Sincerely,
>Michael Shaw
>Director, SPLASH! 2004