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Dear Parents of Registered MathPath 2012 students:
On this page are 6 links, all of them now updated for 2012 except the 1st.
The 1st is to the
201*1* PreCamp Briefing (not updated to 2012 yet)
which includes all the extra information you need to get ready for camp.
The general information is correct for 2012 but the information about the specific location is not.
The other 5 links are to forms to be completed and returned to us by May 31, 2012. The first 3 are required; your child cannot attend MathPath without them.
The 4th is strongly recommended.
The 5th is only for families who wish to allow relatives or friends to take their child off campus.
The forms are:
- Health Form.
This gives us basic health, medication and insurance information about your child, and authorizes us to act in your stead if your child requires emergency medical treatment. Of course we will try to contact you – you provide emergency contact information on the form – but sometimes decisions must be made sooner than you can be reached.
Both you and your pediatrician must sign this form.
If your child has not had a physical within 12 months of the start of camp, in most states your pediatrician will require a new physical before signing the form. Physicals must often be scheduled far in advance. Therefore, please get busy on the medical form right away.
You must have insurance that fully covers urgent and emergency care at medical facilities near MathPath, that is, at least in Hampshire and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts. ("Urgent care" and "emergency care" are defined terms in healthcare policies, which distinguish the care from "routine care".)
Coverage should be effective until August 1 and must also cover any hospitalization extending beyond August 1.
Along with this health form we ask you to submit a xerox copy of both sides of your child's insurance card for this policy, if s/he has a card. We also recommend that your child bring the actual card to camp. In case of an emergency, it is much better for a person to have the information on their card on their person than wait for us to retrieve it from our files.
Canadians: Your government health insurance is not good in the US. You may obtain temporary US insurance from Canadian banks, and no doubt other sources online.
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Indemnification Form.
By your signature on this form you do two things.
First, you commit yourself not to sue us for any mishaps so long as we follow the safety protocols in the Precamp Briefing.
Second, you commit yourself to pay for any medical fees for your child not covered by the insurance you hold, and you promise to pay for any loss or damage to facilities caused by your child and charged to us by our host institution.
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Photo and Quotation Permission Form.
By your signature on this form you grant us permission to make public use of photographs including your child and statements made by your child, so long as he or she is not identified by name. If we wish to identify your child by name, we will need to ask for your additional specific permission.
- (strongly recommended) A
Recreational Activities Waiver Permission. Outfitters for certain activities (typically white-water-rafting, kayaking, rock-wall climbing and the like) insist that the legal guardians of participants sign away their right to sue for injuries except in cases of egregious negligence. Sometimes the host institution requires such forms as well, for something as ordinary as swimming in their pool, but so far we have not been asked to obtain waivers in such cases.
If we already knew all our activities, we could get the forms from those outfitters requiring them, post them online, and let you sign just those ones you choose. But we don't know. Therefore, we have produced a general form where you grant us power of attorney to sign waivers for you (subject to restrictions you specify; see the form).
So for such recreational activities you have 2 choices:
- You can sign and submit the general permission form we have provided, or
- You can reserve judgment until we announce particular activities. The danger with this approach is we cannot guarantee to get the waiver form in advance, or get it to you in time, or that you will be able to get it back to us in time. If we don't have it when we leave for the activity, you child cannot go.
We strongly recommend signing the general form. We will still try to announce activities needing waivers several days in advance by email, and of course we will heed any specific instructions we get from you in time.
- (if needed) A
Permission Form
where you designate people other than you, the parent/guardians, who may take your child off campus. For instance, if you have a relative or trusted friend who lives near the MathPath location, you could grant them such permission.
If there is no one you wish to grant such permission to, don't submit the form.
If there is someone, you must submit the form. We don't release our students to anyone except the parent or guardian without this form.
Submitting Signed Forms.
Signed forms may be sent by post, or scanned and sent as email attachments.
The email address is
smaurer1@swarthmore.edu.
The postal address, as usual, is
MathPath
c/o Prof Maurer
Math/Stat, Swarthmore College
500 College Ave
Swarthmore PA 19081-1390
However,
during January-March 2012, Prof Maurer will be teaching in Germany.
Forms received at Swarthmore during that period will be saved for his return,
but receipt might not be acknowledged and there is a small possibility some forms
will be misplaced.
Thus, it is best not to mail any forms until April 1.
Email will reach Prof Maurer as usual while he is in Germany, and so forms
may be sent as scans at any time.
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Last updated December 18, 2011
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