a high end high school will have a biology teacher who can teach high school students to do crispr (crispr is quite easy).
My path into biology was looking into a microscope and seeing a world of non-computer state machines that behaved like cellular automata. and then my path led back to computers because real biology is much harder than CS.
And I think some kids get into astronomy if I demo my telescope showing them planets and stars. But I don't really push kids too hard in one or another direction; my parents thought I should learn german so I could excel at organic chemistry
Ha! This is HN, I should totally know better than to throw stuff like that out there. I admit, as I wrote the crispr line, in the back of my head I wondered if it was true or not and just went with it because I thought it sounded witty. I stand corrected!
My path into biology was looking into a microscope and seeing a world of non-computer state machines that behaved like cellular automata. and then my path led back to computers because real biology is much harder than CS.
And I think some kids get into astronomy if I demo my telescope showing them planets and stars. But I don't really push kids too hard in one or another direction; my parents thought I should learn german so I could excel at organic chemistry
go slugs