"Although fears are widespread that science education in the U.S. is far behind that of China and India, Tyle and his friends are doing their best to prove that belief wrong."

I don't think when people say "science education" they're referring to "some of the best and brightest U.S. high school students" taking summer classes at MIT; they're talking about regular high schoolers taking regular classes at regular schools.

This program is cool, but it doesn't do much to say "Look at the US, it's good at science education after all"