A Davis Scholarship is a $25,000 merit-based scholarship that can be applied to tuition at United World Colleges (UWC-USA) or one of the 17 other UWCs around the world. Families that demonstrate need are eligible for additional funding that can cover all or most of the costs associated with a UWC education.
The Statewide Advisory Council for the Gifted and Talented (SACPGT) is an advisory body consisting of representatives from Delaware School Districts, Charter Schools, and Institutions of Higher Education. The purpose of the council is to provide leadership, advocacy, and guidance for informed decision making involving programs for the gifted and talented.
The Dell Scholars program is a scholarship and college completion program that nurtures and empowers students on their path to a college degree. Since starting the program in 2004, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has supported 5,000 scholars, including more than 2,000 college graduates.
Design the Future is a week-long, fully immersive design thinking summer program for rising 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th graders in which students work to solve some of the biggest challenges facing our world today. Students work to design solutions to real problems faced by individuals with physical disabilities. Through hands-on experiences, students learn to employ the design thinking process by working to address real challenges using the steps of Empathy, Definition, Ideation, Prototyping, and Testing.
Destination Imagination (DI) is open to all kindergarten through university level students worldwide. Students form teams of up to 7 members, select their preferred Challenge and work together to develop a solution to the Challenge. Each team has at least one Team Manager (often a parent or teacher) who helps keep the team on track, but does not assist or interfere with the team’s solution.
This program at American University allows students to build a digital portfolio, write a script, shoot and edit a film, write a news story like a pro, speak with confidence, persuade, inform, educate, and entertain. Their professional, hands-on workshops are open to students entering grades 9 through 12 and are taught by American University School of Communication faculty and communication professionals.
Discovery Internships is a 4 week, tuition-based, comprehensive internship program with locations in New York City, Boston, and London for students completing grades 10, 11 and 12. Whether you’re interested in entrepreneurship, fashion, finance, healthcare, journalism, law, media, non-profit, photography, real estate, or other fields, they help motivated high school students make the most of their summer and make more informed decisions about college and career plans.
Doodle for Google is an annual contest open to students in grades K-12. Students are invited to create their own Google doodle for the chance to have it featured on Google.com, as well as win some great scholarships and tech packages for their schools.
Super Saturday is a program located in Downers Grove, IL and offers Saturday enrichment courses with small class sizes, challenging curriculum, and unique topics. Past class topics have included coding, sewing, medical science, and cooking.
Dr. Alisa Klinger, Ph.D, founder of MarinWrite, is an independent educational consultant who specializes in achievement, working with gifted and talented students who are applying to independent elementary schools, private high schools, and highly selective colleges and universities, as well as for competitive scholarships and internships. She helps families identify appropriate opportunities and create succinct, storied, and successful applications. Her private practice is located in the San Francisco Bay Area; she also works remotely with clients from across the US and with international students.
Dr. Ellen Littman is a clinical psychologist licensed in New York State, with a focus on high IQ adults and adolescents and specializing in identifying and treating complex presentations of ADHD. Dr. Littman has been recognized by the American Psychological Association as a pioneer in the identification of gender differences in ADHD, with special expertise understanding issues affecting women and girls with ADHD. She also has advanced training in trauma, eating disorders, self-harm, and crisis intervention.
As a clinical psychologist in practice for over 30 years, Gail Post Ph.D. specializes in gifted adults and adolescents. Through private practice, she offers individual, couples, family and group therapy for adults and adolescents; consultation and supervision for treatment professionals; and educational consultation services for gifted children and adolescents. Dr. Post also writes and curates the online blog, Gifted Challenges, which explores the social and emotional aspects of giftedness.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Joanna Haase Ph.D., MFT, offers tools and information for helping parents raise their gifted child, with a focus on asynchronous development, overexcitabilities, and twice-exceptional.
Lesli Preuss, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Child and Family Psychologist with more than fifteen years of experience practicing in leading medical centers and schools across six states. She specializes in the treatment of Twice Exceptional (2e) and intellectually-gifted children and adolescents, as well as children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Asperger’s Syndrome, and anxiety-related issues. Dr. Lesli Preuss operates a private practice located in Studio City, CA and she works with families from the greater Los Angeles area on her ranch in Agoura Hills, CA.
Dr. Maria Paasivirta provides comprehensive assessments at Summit Center’s Los Angeles location, including evaluations for giftedness, learning differences, developmental functioning, and psychological functioning. Dr. Paasivirta received her Ph.D. from Hofstra University in New York. She has a Master’s Degree from NYU and an undergraduate degree from University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She completed an APA accredited internship at Pacific Clinics in Pasadena, where she worked in an intensive outpatient program with children with emotional disturbances. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA TIES For Families, providing evaluations and interventions to children who were adopted or in foster care through LA County Department of Children and Family Services. Dr. Paasivirta also has expertise in assessment and treatment of selective mutism, ADHD, and disruptive behaviors. Dr. Paasivirta is currently based in Pasadena, California.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Patty has provided individual, couple, family, and group counseling to gifted and profoundly gifted individuals across the life span, from very young children to people in their elder years. Her therapeutic orientation is holistic with a relationship focus.
Dr. Newman offers services such as giftedness assessment, school consultations, therapy for children suffering from anxiety, and serving the needs of gifted or twice-exceptional children and their families. Her practice is located outside of Atlanta in Tucker, Georgia.
Since 1981, the Center for Gifted Education has provided programs for gifted children, their families and educators. Each summer more than 700 children from pre-kindergarten through high school attend Drury’s residential and nonresidential pre-college programs—Summer Pals, Summer Quest, Summerscape and Drury Leadership Academy.
The Santa Monica Dual Enrollment Program consists of college classes offered at local high school sites.
Jay N. “Ding” Darling designed the first Federal Duck Stamp in 1934. In subsequent years, noted wildlife artists were asked to submit designs to be considered for the stamp. The first art contest, in 1949, was open to any U.S. artist who wished to enter. Sixty-five artists submitted 88 design entries that first year. To this day, the contest remains open to any artist 18 or older who is a U.S. citizen.
Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving academically gifted and talented youth from fourth through twelfth grade. Duke TIP works with students, their families, and educators to identify, recognize, challenge, engage, and help students reach their highest potential. Duke TIP also offers gifted students a wide range of independent and distance learning courses.
The Duke TIP eStudies Program offers an exceptional academic and social experience for students who are seeking challenging coursework over the summer. eStudies participants connect with a vibrant online community of students and a TIP instructor while exchanging ideas with academically gifted youngsters from around the world.
Duke Youth Programs is a part of Duke University Continuing Studies and has provided summer academic enrichment for academically motivated youth for over 35 years. Each summer approximately 650 youth from around the nation and world, representing some 22 states and 5 different countries, attend one of their summer programs. All programs seek to engage learners in innovative, interactive, transformative learning experiences.
The EngineerGirl website is a service of the National Academy of Engineering that is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women. Every year, the EngineerGirl website sponsors a contest dealing with engineering and its impact on our world.
E.A. Young Academy is an accredited K-12, not-for-profit private academy dedicated to gifted, talented and high ability scholars in North Richland Hills, Texas. They are passionate about serving the needs of gifted students by providing a creative, challenging and unique learning environment. They believe the essential purpose of education is to empower learners to fully develop their talents and abilities in order to become innovative, problem solving, compassionate stewards of our global community.
