gifted children

There are perhaps two million gifted and talented students in today's elementary and secondary schools. Unfortunately, fewer than half are ever identified as such, and even fewer are offered opportunities to engage their advanced abilities. A report to Congress in 1972 confirmed the fact that many gifted and talented youngsters perform far below their intellectual potential. Bright minds will not necessarily make their own way ; schools must strive to identify bright students and to maximize their abilities.

Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.

Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.

Graduating at age fifteen from her parents' theater school, academically gifted Jessie Jasper Lewis tries to thwart her unconventional family's demise when her father's boyfriend moves in.

Ten-year-old Christie Holmes is not only rich and a child prodigy, but she is also the niece of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. Left mostly in the care of maids and servants, Christie and her giant hound Nelson solve mysteries, sometimes even lending her uncle and his friend Dr. Watson a hand.

Christie Holmes uncovers dark secrets from her maids' pasts and makes revelations about the Hope family while being confronted with her own future as a lady. Meanwhile, the ten-year-old sleuth must solve her greatest, and most deadly, mystery--before her parents come home from India.

A program for fourth through eighth graders, which presents twelve multidisciplinary engineering challenges for student teams to solve in competition and provides introductory teamwork exercises, ten warm-up problems, scoring rubrics, tips for teachers and coaches, and a competition administration checklist.