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Well, I should have added that this will be her fifth or sixth visit to China (her grandparents live there, but not in Shanghai), and the lady who is running the program is from our home town and helped my daughter launch her STEM-for-kids program when she was a high-school sophomore; it is aimed at third- through sixth-graders, she was pretty successful with it.

That lady (who is Chinese) got a job as principal of an "international school" in Shanghai, and moved back; one of her first acts was to invite my daughter to basically scale up her program for Chinese children.

We'll see how many of the promised TAs actually materialize. I've a feeling the students will definitely materialize.

The biggest thing (from my point of view) is that the media (and other) recognition my daughter got as a result of her STEM program got her into a very good college with a pretty good scholarship package. Members of that school's alumni have been reaching out to her all summer via email, and I'm very impressed by them and by the way they've made her feel.

Their "admission literature" was incredibly well designed and clever. The first sign she got in was when she opened her iPhone messaging app and fireworks appeared all over the screen, along with the school's football song.

Thanks for your good wishes and encouragement. I'm obviously rather proud of her, a unique sensation that I've had a few years to get used to.