Slides: 1-8 (2:37 - 2:06 seconds remaining) "Alright, the last folks coming on to the quad, you guys look terrific now. Perfect TAISO morning, here at nerd camp. Nerds rule."
Music plays and students perform TAISO, yoga-like stretching and breathing exercises, along with instructor, Ake Takahashi, on the north side of Jesse Hall. At the end of the performance, students yell and clap.
TAISO instructor Ake Takahashi: "Wonderful. Wonderful."
Slides: 9-26 (2:05 - 1:05 seconds remaining) "My name is Ted Tarkow and I'm Co-Director of the Missouri Scholars Academy. The academy is a three week, residential program for academically talented high school students from across the state of Missouri. They have completed their sophomore year in high school. Fundamentally, the purpose of MSA is to open doors. One consequence of our attempting to open doors is that we will have on a typical day 10, 15, 20 programs. The activities range from formal class work, five hours a day Monday through Saturday, to late afternoon, early evening optional activities to required evening programs. On this particular day, for example, Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith, from the St. Louis area, is coming to talk about the documentary, Senator Smith Goes to Washington. We show people that what they can do with each other, with real people can really make a profound difference in how they live a meaningful life.
Slides: 27-47 (1:04 - 0:00 seconds remaining) "My name is Cassie Dishman and I'm from Warrenton High School. We're very busy here at MSA and you do get extremely tired, but it's a lot of fun. A good reason to come to Scholars Academy is, well, there's the whole college experience because you're on a college campus and it's a lot different than high school. You get to be with people who accept you for who you are and not for what they think a teenager should be. The best part is being with other kids my age that are extremely gifted and smart and go through the same struggles that I go through with almost sometimes being ashamed that they are smart as they are because society doesn't, most of society does not, accept that necessarily as a good thing. I do know that if I ever got the opportunity to come back to MSA to teach or to be an RA, I would jump on it as soon as I got the chance."