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+<p>The page you requested is not currently part of our site.  If you followed a link, please e-mail us at <a href="mailto:info@learningu.org">info@learningu.org</a> to let us know so we can fix it.  Thanks.</p>
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+<p><img src="/media/images/emails/mar10/group.jpg" width="230px" height="150px"/><img src="/media/images/photos/aboutbanner.jpg" width="230px" height="150px"/><img src="/media/images/emails/mar10/dancing.jpg" width="230px" height="150px"/></p>
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+<h1>About Learning Unlimited</h1>
+
+<p>Learning Unlimited was founded in 2007 by a group of alumni who had been involved with Splash at MIT and wanted to make educational opportunities more readily available for all students. With the mission of creating educational opportunities for high school and middle school students, and to provide leadership and teaching opportunities for college students' Learning Unlimited strives to engage students of all ages in an educational setting to share and discover their passions. We accomplish our mission through our core values:</p>
+
+<h2>Choice</h2>
+
+<p>Learning Unlimited encourages university students to choose what they most want to teach, using their passion as a resource for effective teaching.  Meanwhile, pre-college students choose their own courses, often among hundreds of options, at each of our programs.  In this way they become personally invested in their learning.  Research has found that choice is a key component to building internal motivation.</p>
+
+<h2>Opportunity</h2>
+
+<p>Learning Unlimited believes that every student should have access to exciting educational experiences.  We work to spread our programs as broadly as possible, and to ensure that all programs are either low-cost (with fee waivers available for those with need) or completely free.</p>
+
+<p>We encourage children who attend LU's programs to use Splash as a jumping off point to more low-cost or free educational oppertunities to further cultivate their passions. Often times these programs are run by the same students who run Splash.</p>
+
+<h2>Accessibility</h2>
+
+<p>Learning Unlimited encourages its programs to make teaching and leadership opportunities available to all students at each university, so that its programs are accessible to all university students (and often community members).  Additionally, we seek to make programs open admission with no application process, or a minimal one to gauge student interest.  Thus, our programs are accessible to all pre-college students.</p>
+
+<h2>Autonomy</h2>
+
+<p>Each chapter of Learning Unlimited is an independent organization led by college students.  This autonomy builds their leadership skills and self-reliance.  Each teacher at a Learning Unlimited program has the autonomy to design their own course without intense oversight.  Each student has the autonomy to choose their courses, navigate the campus on their own, and be where they want, when they want.  The same research that validates the importance of choice in building internal motivation shows the importance of autonomy.</p>
+
+<p>For more details on our work, view <a href="/about/what-we-do">what we do</a>.</p>
+
+<p><img src="/media/images/emails/oct10/students-teachers-talking.png" width="230px" height="150px"/><img src="/media/images/emails/apr11/jeff.jpg" width="230px" height="150px"/><img src="/media/images/emails/apr11/marshmallow.jpg" width="230px" height="150px"/></p>
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+<div id="realbody">
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+<h1>Our Results</h1>
+
+<p>Learning Unlimited's programs have reached well over 20,000 students, with an estimated program attendance of over 10,000 for 2013-2014 academic year alone. We continue to shape the way thousands ofstudents look at education.<p>
+
+<p>In addition, approximately 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students taught for a Splash program in the past academic year, providing crucial experience communicating ideas and sharing their passions.</p>
+
+<p>After our programs, we conduct a survey of participants to measure their response to the program.  The results are both informative and motivating.</p>
+
+
+<h2>Our students...</h2>
+
+
+<p>Found that <b>learning a lot was a lot of fun</b>:
+<ul>
+<li>49% of students respondents reported learning "a lot" at MIT Splash 2008 --- while an <b>additional</b> 21% reported learning more than in a whole month of school!</li>
+<li>69% of respondents at MIT Splash 2008 reported following up on their class material after the program.</li>
+<li>Students at Yale Spring Splash 2014 rated their overall satisfaction with their learning an average of 4.4/5.</li>
+<li>Meanwhile, at the University of Chicago's Cascade spring 2009 program, the overall rating students gave to their classes was a 9.1/10, a high rating shared by the students' overall excitement for class material, also a 9.1/10.</li>
+</ul></p>
+
+<h2>Our teachers...</h2>
+
+<p>Found that teaching was both exciting and helpful to them:
+<ul>
+<li>100% of teacher respondents at Stanford Splash 2008 found teaching to be "<b>fun</b>" or "<b>very fun</b>."</li>
+<li>95% of teachers at Yale Spring Splash said they would teach again for a Splash program, with an average satisfaction of 4.3/5</li>
+<li>89% reported a <b>greater interest in teaching for outreach programs</b>.</li>
+<li>82% felt their <b>teaching had improved</b> from the experience.</li>
+</ul></p>
+
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+<div id="realbody">
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+<h1>Supporters</h1>
+
+<p>Generous support for Learning Unlimited is provided by:</p>
+
+<center>
+<p><b>The Baskin Family Foundation</b><br /> <br />
+<img src="/media/images/sponsors/esuslogo101409.GIF"/></p>
+
+<p><b>PrintingForLess.com</b></p>
+</center>
+
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+<div id="realbody">
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+<h1>What We Do</h1>
+
+<p>Learning Unlimited (LU) is leading a movement of <strong>college students teaching high school students everything and anything</strong>.  By seeding and supporting <strong>self-sustaining student groups</strong> at colleges and universities around the world, LU reaches over 10,000 students annually.</p>
+
+<div class="floatleft imagebox"><img src="/media/images/photos/chalkboard.jpg" width="133" height="200" alt="Chalkboard"><br><a href="/current-programs">Stanford Splash 2010</a></div>
+
+<h2>Splash</h2>
+<p>LU's flagship program is <a href="/current-programs">Splash</a>. In one weekend, hundreds to thousands of high school and middle school students are invited to a college campus to learn about <a href="/current-programs/classes">everything and anything</a> from passionate university students. Splash often serves as a gateway to long-term programs run by the same students.</p>
+
+<p>These programs are run by undergraduate or graduate student groups. Each is independent, mentored and supported by LU, with their own budget and leadership.</p>
+
+<h2>What Makes Us Different</h2>
+<h3>Leadership</h3>
+<p>While LU's most well known program is Splash, LU encourages and supports chapters creating and exploring other educational programs of their own. Our purpose is not to dictate or direct chapters what to do or how to do it, it is to provide support and guidance to the student leaders that create and run these programs. This allows college students to take on real leadership roles and work with each other to create a program that is truly their own and works best for their campus and community.</p>
+<h3>Mentors</h3>
+<p>LU has an intense mentoring process and the amazing college students that take charge of running programs. These up-and-coming leaders run their programs with energy, professionalism, and a real sense of fun.</p>
+<p>LU provides intense mentoring and start-up support, an open-source web platform for every aspect of program management, a knowledge base of organizational guides and best practices, and other shared national resources. With LU's help and guidance, each group customizes their programs to their university, community and individual strengths.</p>
+<h3>Passion</h3>
+<p>By engaging volunteers to teach what they love to students not much younger than them, Learning Unlimited opens up a world of possibilities to young minds. For the first time, they can explore topics like urban design, or cosmology, or advanced mathematics, or impressionist art. Students realize that careers are open in these fields, and can picture themselves doing it. They have a chance to explore on their own terms, and then they make that study their own.</p>
+<div class="floatright imagebox"><img src="/media/images/photos/passion.jpg" width="350" height="266" alt="Students in class"><br><a href="/current-programs">MIT Splash 2010</a></div>
+<p>Learning Unlimited supports programs where students choose between hundreds of classes. Students have the freedom to explore a college campus on their own, and to be treated as responsible adults. Research has repeatedly shown that choice and autonomy, both key features of LU programs, are essential to developing internal motivation in learners.</p>
+
+<!--<p>LU has led three new programs to success (at Columbia, Babson, and Amherst) with several more on the way (at the Princeton University, Rice University, and Bard, among others still in development).  New programs find hundreds of interested students, often growing at a rate of greater than 50% each successive year.</p>-->
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+<div style="clear: left;"></div>
+
+<h2>Outcomes</h2>
+
+<p>University student leaders and teachers report benefits to their careers and interest in teaching.  Pre-college students report increased interest in learning the topics they see at Splash.  See more at our <a href="/about/results">results page</a>.</p>
+
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+<h1>Who We Are</h1>
+
+<p>The leaders of Learning Unlimited have all been key members of local programs in the past, while in college or graduate school.  They are:</p>
+
+<h2>Our Board of Directors</h2>
+
+<div class="biobox">
+<!--  <div class="imagebox floatleft"><img src="/media/images/biopics/Zandra_Board.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="Zandra V."></div>-->
+  <p><b>Ben Kraft</b>, <i>Chairperson</i><br>
+Ben studied math with a side of physics, computer science, and political science at MIT.  In his "spare" time, he co-chaired MIT ESP, represented MIT ESP on the LU Chapter Board, and directed several programs.  Now a software engineer at Khan Academy, he still mentors several LU programs, works on the website used by LU chapters, and teaches math, physics, and gerrymandering at various Splash programs.  When he's not busy learning, teaching, or writing education-related software, he enjoys hiking, folding origami, and making smoothies.
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+</div>
+
+<div class="biobox">
+  <p><b>J.D. Zamfirescu</b><br>
+  J.D. runs Workshop Weekend, a community-based educational program similar to an all-ages Splash, in Oakland, California. He helped to found Stanford ESP in 2008 and co-founded AppJet, a web collaboration startup, in 2007. AppJet produced a web-based real-time collaborative text editor, EtherPad, which was acquired by Google in 2009. Before moving to San Francisco, he directed programs at MIT ESP and spent a year as a software engineer at Google in New York. J.D. holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from MIT.</p>
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+</div>
+
+<div class="biobox">
+
+   <p><b>Marcus Gomez</b><br>
+Marcus is a rising junior at Stanford University studying Computer Science, Statistics, and Electrical Engineering. He serves as the Financial Officer for Stanford Splash and is the co-founder of SplashX, a Coursera-style initiative with content recorded and collected from Splash programs exclusively. He has spent time doing education research at Google, and additionally has experience writing curricula/teaching competitive math to middle and high school students. Marcus’ vision is to make high quality education accessible to every student in the country, equalizing the playing field for everyone with an internet connection. He teaches social psychology courses at Splash, and in his free time enjoys skateboarding, kickboxing, and reading about “dope” machine learning applications. 
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+</div>
+
+<div class="biobox">
+<p> <b>Rachel Lawrence</b><br>
+Rachel graduated from Yale in 2016 with a degree in Applied Mathematics. At Yale, she was involved with Splash as director and organization president, in addition to teaching an abundance of classes on topics ranging from algorithm design to graph theory. After graduating, she went on to work on research software development at Pixar before moving to New York to work as a software engineer at Reservoir Labs, while staying involved with LU and chapter services. When she's not working on Splash, Rachel enjoys digital painting, hiking, and endlessly browsing Wikipedia.</p>
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+<div class="biobox">
+  <div class="imagebox floatleft"><img src="/media/images/biopics/dan_bw.jpg" width="143" height="200" alt="Dan"></div>
+
+  <p><b>Daniel Zaharopol</b><br>
+Dan Zaharopol was the founding CEO of Learning Unlimited, and later went on as the Founder and Executive Director of Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), a program that helps underserved middle school students in New York City to study advanced mathematics and enter a pathway towards becoming a scientist, mathematician, engineer, or programmer.  Dan has won awards for his teaching in places such as the MIT Experimental Studies Group, the University of Illinois, and Canada/USA Mathcamp.  In addition to serving on Learning Unlimited's board, he is also on the board of Canada/USA Mathcamp and the New York Math Circle.
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+</div>
+<div class="biobox">
+
+
+<h2>Our Staff</h2>
+<div class="biobox">
+  <div class="imagebox floatright"><img src="/media/images/biopics/ben.jpeg" width="200" height="200" alt="Ben"></div>
+
+  <p><b>Benjamin Horowitz</b>, <i>Executive Director</i><br>
+Ben was one of the founding members of Yale Splash in 2010 and has lead that organization through most of it's growth and expansion. Now a physics graduate student at UC Berkeley supported by a National Science Foundation Fellowship, he was originally inspired to get involved in math and science through attending MIT's Splash and Spark programs. In addition to his work managing the operations of Learning Unlimited and mentoring new programs, he has taught courses at numerous college's programs on topics ranging from Physics of Black Holes to Linear Algebra. 
+</p>
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+</div>
+
+<div class="biobox">
+
+  <p><b>Miles Calabresi</b>, <i>Director of Chapter Services</i><br>
+Miles graduated from Yale in 2015 with a degree in Linguistics and Mathematics. He was involved with the Splash at Yale program since 2012, both as program director and organizational president. He is currently a math Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University. He has been active in LU, mentoring programs and creating resources to help improve the impact of our programs, as well as serving as Chair of the Chapter Board. As Director of Chapter Services, his current projects include getting to know chapter leadership better, creating and improving documentation archives, and streamlining communication between LU and its chapters, all with the goal of making accessible information and services that are both sustainable and useful to chapters of all ages, sizes, and philosophies.
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+</div>
+
+<div class="biobox">
+
+  <p><b>Ted Hwa</b>, <i>Chief Financial Officer</i><br>
+Ted Hwa is the Chief Financial Officer of Learning Unlimited.  He has been volunteering in Splash programs since 1996, during his days as a student at Stanford.  He continues to be involved with the Stanford chapter of Learning Unlimited, assisting them with website issues.  His background is in mathematics and computer science, and in his day job, he works in the field of internet security.
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+</div>
+
+
+<div class="biobox">
+  <p><b>Our Volunteers</b><br>
+The Learning Unlimited volunteers are composed of former program leaders working alongside others who never had a chance to run a Splash. Some are still in college, while some have long graduated, but they all help to make our programs a reality. They bring diverse talents, from business
+and legal advice to web programming to graphic design, and together form the backbone of our organization.  We invite anyone with interest to join us in volunteering; <a href = "../help/">find out more</a>.</p>
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+
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+<h1>Create a New Splash!</h1>
+
+<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WgjrjMsGmlyGoJZje7XAhhDJUO0XlznyZWU0g3lmXDo/viewform?embedded=true" width="760" height="900" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>
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+<h1>Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
+
+<h2>Do I need to have an enormous Splash like MIT/Stanford?</h2>
+
+<p>No. Keep in mind that MIT's Splash has been running for almost 30 years which has allowed them to build up a large student base. LU works with Splashes that range from 3,000 students to 50 students and everywhere in between. The size of your Splash is up to you and what you think you and your team can put together. Most first time Splashes range from 50 to 150 students.</p>
+
+<h2>What motivates students to start a Splash?</h2>
+
+<p>Although every Splash is different, generally founding teams have a strong desire to accomplish something significant and something that will make a difference in their community and on their campus.</p>
+
+<h2>What is the time commitment to start a Splash?</h2>
+
+<p>There's no getting around it, Splash is a large time commitment, furthermore, you will not always be able to predict when it takes up your time as unexpected issues always come up. That being said, putting together a solid admin team that supports each other makes it much more manageable.</p>
+
+<p>Interested in finding out more?  We'd like to speak with you, even if you're not sure this is what you want to do and just want to learn more about what it's like.  Go ahead and <a href="/contact">contact us</a> and we'll see where our discussion takes us!</p>
+
+<p> Have a question that you don't see answered here? Click <a href="/becoming-a-chapter/submit_a_question_form">here</a> to ask. 
+
+<p>Or, keeping reading to see <a href="/becoming-a-chapter/how-we-help">how we help</a>.</p>
+
+</div>