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Dear Parents of Registered MathPath 2010 students:
On this page are 5 links. The first is to the
PreCamp Briefing
which includes all the extra information you need to get ready for camp.
The other 4 links are to forms to be completed and returned to us by May 31, 2010. The first two are required; your child cannot attend MathPath without them. The second two are optional.
Information on how to return these forms is at the bottom of this page.
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, your pediatrician will almost certainly 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.
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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 Macalester College.
- (optional) 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 in the Twin Cities area, you could grant them such permission.
- (optional) A
Recreational Activities Waiver Permission. Outfitters for certain activities (typically white-water-rafting, kayaking, rock-wall climbing and the like) insist that 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 you have never seen such a form, you can find several on the website of MathCamp, our "sister" camp in that it was also founded by George Thomas; click here. Mathcamp is able to decide long in advance what activities they will do and thus can get the waivers from the companies and put them online. We can't do that.
So you have 2 choices.
- You can sign and submit the general permission form we have provided, or
- You can reserve judgment until you see the particular activities we line up in July. 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.
So we recommend you sign 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.
Submitting Signed Forms.
Signed forms may be sent by post, or scanned and sent as email attachments.
The postal address, as usual, is
MathPath
c/o Prof Maurer
Math/Stat, Swarthmore College
500 College Ave
Swarthmore PA 19081
The email address is
smaurer1@swarthmore.edu.
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Last updated June 6, 2010
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