Check out the student video contest sponsored by World of 7 Billion. Students will create a short solution-oriented video (60 seconds) connecting human population growth to one of the following global challenges: deforestation, public health, water scarcity.
First prize: $500
Entries due: February 25, 2016
On Saturday, February 6, 2016, the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary is offering the Focus on the Future Conference for high achieving middle and high school students. This event allows students to become more familiar with career opportunities available to them through presentations centered on individual occupations. A number of professionals, including professors will give presentations.
Parents will attend separate sessions about planning for their child’s collegiate experience. Interested parents may obtain a brochure at http://education.wm.edu/centers/cfge/precollegiate/future/index.php.
I also have copies in my office (A100) that students can come and pick up. Registration for this event ends on January 16, 2016 and the conference is $85 for the day (8:45-3:00).
Attention Parents of K-5 students:
In coordination with the Curry School of Education, the Saturday and Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) seeks to offer gifted and/or high ability students a rich and rewarding learning experience. Modeling best practices in curriculum and instruction, the SEP staff works as a community to maximize potential in each student and foster a passion for lifelong learning.
SEP hosts two programs throughout the year. The Saturday program serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade and the Summer residential program hosts students in rising fifth through eleventh grade. Please click on the corresponding links for further program and application information.
Please see the link below:
826 DC ‘s mission statement is:
“826DC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.”
To do this they offer free workshops for students! Their workshops for each month can be found here. Below is a description of their workshops:
“Our free workshops foster creativity, strengthen writing skills, and provide students ages 6-18 with a forum to execute projects they otherwise might not have the support to undertake. 826DC Workshops are led by talented volunteers (including published authors, educators, playwrights, and other artists) during evenings, on weekends, and throughout the summer. Workshops cover a wide range of literary topics including music writing (“Music to My Ears”) ode writing (“Ode to My Underpants”), writing personal essays (“My Boring Life”), and tons more.”
Tech Savvy is a daylong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career conference designed to attract girls in sixth through ninth grade to these fields and to inform families about STEM education and careers. Register your daughter for this exciting day exploring STEM!
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Northern Virginia Community College – Annandale
8333 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003
Ernst Cultural Center
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The deadline for registration has been extended to Friday, October 16.
Registration link: http://bit.ly/1N1FFVQ
The Day at a Glance
8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30 – 12:30 Hands-on Workshops and College Savvy
12:30 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:45 Savvy Skills Workshops
2:45 – 3:15 Panel discussion – Four successful women in STEM fields
3:15 – 4:00 Keynote Speaker by BAE Systems
4:00 – 4:30 Evaluations and Door Prizes
During the morning and afternoon sessions, girls will have the opportunity to choose from the following workshop offerings:
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Hands-on Workshops |
Savvy Skills Workshops |
| Optics and Detectors in Astronomy | Creative Problem Solving |
| Geospatial Remote Sensing | Becoming A Great Communicator |
| Using Technology to Understand Behavior | How To Interview for a Technology Position |
| How to Build A Network | Staying Safe Online with a Positive Reputation |
| “Steam” – Meeting Art and Technology | Female Leaders in the American Corporate System |
| Robotics | Girls Just Want to Have Fund$, |
| Create Your Own Mobile App | Engineering – It’s A Process |
| Defending your Computers | |
| How To Build and Program A Robot |
Coinciding with the girls’ activities, there is a separate program for adults that provides information about how to support girls who are interested in STEM, as well as how to prepare them for college.
Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own
interpretation of literary classics. They then bring their solutions to competition on the local, state, and World level. Thousands of teams from throughout the U.S. and from about 25 other countries participate in the program.
Each year the TAG office supports Odyssey of the Mind team membership fees for any schools who are interested in fielding a team. Odyssey of the Mind depends heavily on parent support through coaching and guiding the students, organizing practices, attending tournaments and supporting efforts to support students as they work together to solve interesting real-world problems.
To learn more about it, an information session is planned for any interested parents or teachers at 6:30pm on Oct. 14 at Douglas MacArthur Elementary.