This summer, I became incredibly interested in effective altruism and as a high school student and someone from a low-income background, I felt like there were limited options on how to get involved in EA.
I would love to start a project supporting the EA movement for high school/secondary students. Here are my ideas!
1. A website similar to 80 000 hours, mentioning career planning and how to plan your undergraduate career to align with EA principles.
2. Hosting an EA conference for youth in a virtual format.
3. Having an EA council with mentorship from more established members in the space to work on the projects mentioned above and produce content.
Hi! I know this is two weeks late, but I'm new to the forum so I hope you'll forgive me. I'm also a high school student interested in EA, and I've found some ways to help out in the movement despite the limited options which I'd be happy to talk more about.
I'm really interested in your ideas, and also just in how many high schoolers lurk on this forum but (like me) find the high level of discourse a bit intimidating. I'd like to write a post intended to surface and connect with those high schoolers. Perhaps from there, we can work together on making 2 or 3 happen.
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DavidXYu
2y
I really appreciate the sentiment from this. I help run SPARC (https://sparc-camp.org/) and while the camp itself is meant to be a selective program, we want to support more broadly addressed initiatives too (if nothing else they end up benefiting us anyway because it encourages future good and aligned applications).
SPARC can probably help on the level of ops support from alumni who may be interested and a degree of funding that can at least make something like 2. happen.
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ChanaMessinger
2y
Cool! Peter McIntyre is working on things like #1 and might be interested in 2 and 3 as well. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try it on your own, but that might be someone to get in touch with!
This summer, I became incredibly interested in effective altruism and as a high school student and someone from a low-income background, I felt like there were limited options on how to get involved in EA.
I would love to start a project supporting the EA movement for high school/secondary students. Here are my ideas!
1. A website similar to 80 000 hours, mentioning career planning and how to plan your undergraduate career to align with EA principles.
2. Hosting an EA conference for youth in a virtual format.
3. Having an EA council with mentorship from more established members in the space to work on the projects mentioned above and produce content.