Why do our THINK Summer Institute professors enjoy teaching for this program? Please read below to find out!
�This will be my seventh year teaching with the THINK Summer Institute and it is always both interesting and rewarding. My area of research involves studying problem solving strategies and I greatly enjoy sharing this with all my students. However, with the THINK students, both the challenge and the reward are elevated because they have such a great thirst for learning. They also have much more completely refined learning skills and work ethics so we can get into our various topics deeply and effectively with much less �warm-up� time. Whether we are building a computer or solving a multi-variable puzzle, the students jump in with both feet and don�t back down until they accomplish the task or find the answer. The best part is that many of the students will pick up where the lesson left off and work to extend their knowledge or bring me back some new item they found as they dug even deeper. By definition, these students possess amazing gifts, but I would argue that their best gift is their curiosity and their desire to learn. I always have fun with them.�
~ Dr. Michael Leverington; Computer Science Professor
