Seth Perler is an Executive Function and Education Coach who strives to help gifted students who struggle with homework motivation, organization, becoming overwhelmed or resistant, and more. In addition to online courses and toolkits, his site offers free resources, blog posts, and informative videos about twice-exceptionality and other relevant topics.
Dr. Shirag Shemmassian, founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting, works with high-achieving high school students to help them get into America’s top colleges. He works with students one-on-one throughout high school to help them come up with and achieve their college goals. He provides support at all stages of the college process, such as essay writing, interview prep, finding summer programs and extracurriculars, and much more.
Shulamit Widawsky is a Gifted Specialist serving the gifted in Northern Virginia. She offers both emotional and educational support to her clients to help students find balance and tap into their academic potential. She also advises parents to help them understand their gifted child and advocate for them in school.
The Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University gives academically talented, motivated high school students the opportunity to engage in hands-on research in science, math, or engineering at Stony Brook University. Simons Fellows work with distinguished faculty mentors, learn laboratory techniques and tools, become part of active research teams, and experience life at a research university.
Designed by Smith’s professors and staff, precollege programs offer an inspiring learning experience. The hands-on, collaborative environment lets students directly engage with world-class scholars who help them pursue their passions and develop new skills. Both remote and on-campus opportunities are available.
This 17-day course was designed to meet the special needs of campers who are both intellectually gifted and ADHD/LD (otherwise known as 2E students). This course addresses their desire to explore and interact with the environment around them and provides experiential and environmental learning opportunities not found in other courses. Campers will be encouraged to keep a journal of their entire experience, and will visit local museums, education centers, and local libraries.
Socially Gifted’s mission is to support the growth and development of gifted children through social events, community building, and providing research and speakers to families about social needs of gifted children. The aim is to support students, parents and families; other gifted and talented focussed organizations; K-12 educators and service staff; and the community at large.
Sound Formation offers several music education programs, including classes about the symbiosis between music and math, after school courses, summer programs, and one-time workshops. Founder and CEO Curtis Madigan is passionate about gifted education and has honed a novel approach to music education, which develops comprehensive music understanding, deeper inspiration, and more creativity.
Founded in 1978, the South Carolina Consortium for Gifted Education seeks to empower, endow and enrich the instruction and leadership abilities of South Carolina teachers of gifted in their mission to enhance and nurture the potential of gifted and talented students.
SMPG offers gifted testing and evaluations to children in the greater Miami area. They administer the WISC-V, WPPSI-VI, or the Woodcock Johnson-IV and, upon completion of the IQ test, parents/caregivers are provided with a comprehensive report detailing test results and recommendations.
Southeastern Louisiana University offers many opportunities for high school students to earn college credits while they’re still in high school through their early admission program, gifted-talented youth programs, and dual enrollment program.
Space Camp is a one-of-a-kind experience at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the Official Visitor Center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Each year, trainees of all ages travel from across the United States and 150 countries to participate in their programs. Trainees learn space and flight history, work together as teams, experience simulators, complete simulated space missions, and learn what it really means to be an astronaut.
Sprout Gifted classes in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois are designed to bring like-minded, curious children together from Pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade. Classes focus on socilaization and emotional intensities, as well as academic curiosities. There is an early childhood program in addition to classes for students in grades K-5 offered after school and in the summer.
Stanford AI4ALL intends to increase diversity in the field of Artificial Intelligence by targeting students from a range of financial and cultural backgrounds. They aim to educate students through a three-week residential program with a combination of lectures, hands-on research projects, field trips, and mentoring activities.
During Stanford University’s Summer Quarter, high school students from the United States and around the globe are invited to spend eight or nine weeks living and learning in the heart of Silicon Valley. Alongside visiting undergraduate and matriculated students, students will earn credit and a Stanford University transcript at one of the most competitive universities in the world. Participants can choose from more than 145 courses offered by 30 departments within the schools of Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering.
The Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR) is an eight-week program in which high school students from diverse backgrounds are invited to perform basic research with Stanford faculty, postdoctoral fellows, students and researchers on a medically-oriented project. The goals of the program include increasing interest in biological sciences and medicine in high school students, helping students to understand how scientific research is performed, and increasing diversity of students and researchers in the sciences.
