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Davidson Young Scholars Program Accepting Applications

The national Davidson Young Scholars program provides FREE services designed to nurture the intellectual, social, emotional, and academic development of profoundly intelligent young people between the ages of 5 and 18 (students must be…

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Meet Glamour’s 2020 College Women of the Year

The women are ice-skating scientists, models-slash-engineers, published authors who happen to be D1 athletes, Rhodes Scholars, and small business owners. They are first-generation Americans, first-generation college students, future Ph.D.s, airline pilots, public servants, educators,…

Reno Teen Award $10,000 for Renewable Energy Project

Oliver Leitner, an 18-year-old student from Reno, Nevada, has won a $10,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for his project, Localizing Heat with Carbon Foam for Efficient Solar Distillation. He is one of only 20 students…

Gifted Children: Nurturing Genius (Part One)

The Davidson Institute was featured in this Psychology Today article: Gifted Children: Nurturing Genius (Part One) “As such, Davidson programs for the gifted serve what they refer to as profoundly gifted youth. They define…