Re: Mentoring

[tdc@ehssun.lbl.gov (Ted M. de Castro)]

>>I saw one or two interesting words mentioned in 
>>strings of various subjects in the last few days.  
>>One of them was the word MENTOR.

>>Has anyone considered mentoring young people of
>>High School age, getting them interested in
>>Health Physics?  One group in particular that
>>comes to mind is the Boy Scouts.

Actually I had thought of something like this and thought of placing a query 
here for advice.

I lead a 4H rocketry group and had considered the idea of a 4H Health 
Physics groups.  The kids are aged 9 through 19 and the project leader can 
limit the age and number of participation.

I was trying to come up with WHAT I would present for the minimum requiste 
10 one hour meetings within what I perceived to be the realistic 
constraints:

1:  meetings held in a home (mine) in the neighborhood - ie. NOT a LAB

2:  limited equipment .... mine again.

3:  Keep them interested

4:  Some kind of hands on displayable tangible project.

The more I thought about it the more I thought that they cannot even really 
begin to get any orientation into HP without SOME understanding of 
statistics/probability.  

That age group tends to only see black and white and firmly believes that 
random events are governed by LUCK and thus outcomes CAN be influenced.

That to me seemed the major block.

Everything I was coming up with sounded too much like "Our Friend the Atom" 
50's/60's PR - which just wouldn't fly with today's kids NOR their parents.

So add to the above

5:  Evangelizing unacceptable



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