5/22/2012:
A University of Oregon summer college prep program for underprivileged middle schoolers ally-ooped a Springfield teenager into the loving arms of Bill and Melinda Gates — who will pay for her college education from freshman year to doctoral degree. …
“Particle physics,” she said. “What I really want to do is go to Switzerland to work with the large hadron collider, smashing particles together at speeds nearing the speed of light in attempts to re-create the big bang.”
Just read the whole story, it captures it all, wonderfully. From Diane Dietz in the RG.
Very cool!
Congrats to you and her!
you are doing great work!