Of the two families who had this same experience, one was poor the other fairly wealthy, neither were "connected" in any way to the gov't. For whatever reason, you appear to want to say this isn't the case, and that it's an exception. Whatever - I'm tired of discussing it with you and feeding the troll.<div>
<br></div><div>James</div><div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:48 PM, James Clement <<a href="mailto:clementlawyer@gmail.com">clementlawyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Those things are scattershot, meant for everyone. No<br>
>> identification or selection of targets necessary. Only the<br>
>> contests come close to identification - and, more often<br>
>> than not, the identification is never followed up on. The<br>
>> government lets candidates come to them, not vice versa.<br>
>><br>
>> Do you have specific examples to the contrary? I am not<br>
>> aware of any, despite living in the region of the US where<br>
>> they would logically be most focused.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> As I have already mentioned, I know of several specific examples on opposite<br>
> ends of the Country. A friend of mine had a child in a large city's gifted<br>
> program and their kid, along with many classmates, were given offers every<br>
> year from grade school until graduation for all-expense paid summer camps<br>
> from each of the armed services, NSA, CIA, etc. One year it was Navy,<br>
> another the Air Force, etc. These programs are exclusively for geniuses.<br>
> These kids are generally way above MENSA status (see<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Society" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Society</a> for examples), although I would<br>
> assume that some of the smarter MENSA-level kids might make the cut off too.<br>
<br>
</div></div>From your description, I suspect it was your friend's<br>
connections, and/or that specific program's connections,<br>
that got the attention. If such a thing were nationwide,<br>
MENSA would have heard of it.<br>
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