It is not about “brain drain”, it is about “brain gain” – 20 years High School Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
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High School Student Institute of Mathematics and InformaticsAbstract
The authors present the 20-year history of the High School Student Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (HSSI) by discussing three main events being orga- nized in its frames – the Winter HSSI Conference, the HSSI Section of the Spring Conference of UBM and the Summer Research School of HSSI. A special attention is payed to a “sister-program of HSSI” – the Research Science Institute (RSI), organized jointly by CEE and MIT (US), and the selection procedure according to which two Bulgarian students get the right to attend RSI. The arguments in favor of the title are strengthened by HSSI and RSI alumni who have been achieving a great interna- tional recognition for their research in the years and have been mentoring the next generations of HSSI students (both from a distance, and face-to-face – in Bulgaria).
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