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Highlights from Expert Series

Tips for Students: Why Can a Crow Fly, but You Can’t?

The following article shares highlights and insights from one of our Expert Series events, which are exclusive for Young Scholars and their parents. Why can a crow fly, but you can’t? Is it because they have…

Highlights from Expert Series

Not What I Expected: A Guide for Parents of Exceptional Children

The following article shares highlights and insights from one of our Expert Series events, which are exclusive for Young Scholars and their parents. The entire population of people who are parents, and even more so, parents…

Gifted and Twice-Exceptional

Sensory Issues in Gifted Kids

Sensory Issues in Gifted Kids: A Developmental Overview and Recommendations for Parenting This Tips for Parents article is from a Young Scholar seminar hosted by Beth Houskamp, Ph.D., who defines sensory processing issues and…

Highlights from Expert Series

Tips for Students: The Amazing History of Vaccines

The following article shares highlights and insights from one of our Expert Series events, which are exclusive for Young Scholars and their parents. Vaccines are one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in human history.  They…

Gifted Programs

Davidson Fellows – Leveraging Scientific Innovation to Help Fight Diseases & Disorders

The Fellows Scholarship awards $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000 scholarships to extraordinary young people, 18 and under, who have completed a significant piece of work. Application categories are Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Literature, Music, Philosophy…

Social and Emotional Resources

Types of Problems Gifted Children Face

Gifted children have differently-wired brains that make their experience of adolescence unique compared to their neurotypical age-mates. While most individuals think of giftedness in terms of academics alone, giftedness also applies to a child’s…

Gifted Education and Support

An Educator’s Guide to Gifted Children

An Educator’s Guide to Gifted Children PDF Version I am intense I am asynchronous I am misunderstood I am gifted! I am…intense. Intensity defines me. The further along the IQ spectrum I am, the…

Highlights from Expert Series

Tips for Students: Getting Involved in Scientific Research at a Young Age

The following article shares highlights and insights from one of our Expert Series events, which are exclusive for Young Scholars and their parents. Being involved in scientific research at a young age can be a transformative…

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