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Have you considered advertising through high school gifted programs?
I would have benefited a lot from this type of mentoring in high school, and when I think of how you could have reached high school me, the most plausible path would have been through my school's gifted program. I grew up in a mid-sized city where I more or less exhausted the educational opportunities for high school students, and never attended academic summer programs or anything similar. I also didn't use the internet much, and I think it's unlikely that I would have stumbled across this on my own. In fact, by some of the same tokens, I might have been an unusually high-impact person to reach because I wasn't likely to get the type of information you are disseminating through other avenues.
Thanks ruthie!
This is a path that we haven't explored, so it's helpful that you point it out.
More effective than advertising through gifted programs might be to seek out schools without gifted programs and talk to the teachers. Where there are already gifted programs, you're less needed and will probably be perceived accordingly. In systems with no or minimal gifted programs, there will still usually be good teachers who have identified students who need more than they're getting. If you can find good criteria for identifying active "good teachers" and contact them selectively, you would do more good and probably attract more interest.