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summarizing an unsummarizable summer camp
what is sparc? how did i change from it? what do people get out of it? why should it exist? what is the point of people doing it? these questions have been in my blog ideas file for nine months, and if they were easy to answer, i probably would’ve written this post earlier. while i could say that sparc is a ten-day summer camp that aims to teach high schoolers how to “develop quantitative skills and apply them to the world,” description stolen from the sparc website, you could probably say the same thing about many other summer camps. but the sum of sparc’s goals isn’t to convey a curriculum i
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