Each year Alfred University welcomes K-12 grade school students from all over the country to their campus to participate in exciting academic and sports co-ed day-long and overnight summer camps. These programs provide young people with opportunities to learn more about their fields of interest, to sample life on a college campus and to meet other students with similar interests and academic ability.
Gifted Music School is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational institution in Salt Lake City committed to defining the standard for high-level music education. Gifted Music School currently serves 582 students every single week and provides 1075 hours of lessons and/or classes every month. It is recognized nationally for exceptional music education.
thinkLaw exists to create a world where critical thinking is no longer a luxury good. They help educators teach critical thinking to all students, not just the highest achieving ones at the most exclusive schools. Rote memorization and spoon-fed learning will not prepare young people for the rapidly changing workforce that awaits them.
This is why thinkLaw increases educational equity by giving all students access to critical thinking. They do this through their award-winning curriculum that uses real-life legal cases in upper grades and fairy tales and nursery rhymes in lower grades as a hook to unleash the critical thinking potential of all students and powerful professional development that helps educators apply rigorous inquiry strategies that help them transform from asking “what” and “how to” to “why” and “what if.”
The Walking Classroom is a national award-winning education program that provides students and teachers with an innovative way to get exercise without sacrificing instructional time. The nonprofit program’s “Walk, Listen, and Learn” methodology capitalizes on the favorable link between exercise and cognitive function.
Outschool provides live online classes and camps. These fun, social, and safe learning experiences for kids ages 3-18 are led by passionate teachers and are cost-effective.
Guiding Exceptional Parents, provides services including help with Special Needs Care Navigation, Parent Coaching, or with RDI™. RDI™ helps parents learn how to teach their children the essential skills that make relationships work. Parent Coaching includes developing customized strategies to address the challenges parents face as they work to support their child. Special Needs Care Navigation helps parents of kids with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, or other unidentified challenges.
Christine Fonseca is a licensed educational psychologist, critically acclaimed author, and a nationally recognized speaker on topics related to educational psychology, mental health, giftedness, and using storytelling to heal past wounds. As a trauma-impacted survivor, Christine believes in the power of storytelling as a key to healing past wounds. Christine’s critically acclaimed titles include Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students, The Caring Child, Letting Go: A Girl’s Guide to Breaking Free of Stress and Anxiety, and the action-packed Young Adult series, the Solomon Experiments.
The National Youth Science Foundation (NYSF), Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation established in 1983 to provide STEM*-focused programs for students from all across the country and around the world. The NYSF’s flagship program, the National Youth Science Camp, is a four-week session in the mountains of West Virginia that combines some of the brightest students in the country with top-notch scientists for lectures and outdoor adventures. Many students return later in their own STEM careers as guest presenters and perpetuate the traditions of the camp.
Future Problem Solving of California is an Affiliate of Future Problem Solving Program International [http://www.fpspi.org], an educational nonprofit focusing on the development of critical, creative and futuristic thinking skills.
Although FPS enhances students’ awareness of current issues, the main goal is to develop higher order thinking skills. By challenging students to apply their minds to some of the most significant issues facing the world of today and in the future, we help equip them with the vision, skills and tools to design and promote positive outcomes for society at local, regional and global scales.
Online G3 offers “smart classes for smart classes” in a virtual setting. G3 courses are tailored to meet the needs of gifted and twice-exceptional students, and accelerated placement is encouraged. Learning at G3 is a collaboration between parents, students, and teachers.