GTC: Winter Newsletter & Important Dates

GPS Junior High Gifted Program

The GTC Winter Newsletter has been published to the GPS website.  

Highlights include:

• Individual Educational Plans with student set SMART goals
• Gifted Girls (GiGis) lunches
• Visit from the Society of Women Engineers
• Student written hi-lights

Click here to view the GTC 2017 Winter Newsletter

Click here to view the information page on the GTC program

2018 Important Dates

• GTC OPEN HOUSE: February 20, 2018 at 7pm in the library at Highland Junior High School. This event will allow for families to meet the teachers, view the campus and understand the curriculum.
• GTC APPLICATION WINDOW FOR 2018-19 SCHOOL YEAR: March 7- March 30th. The application will be available in March on the GTC page of the GPS website.

January Parenting Classes on Giftedness

Parent University and the Gifted Education Parent Council present 2 classes on giftedness this January  ...

Click this link for registration:
www.gilbertschools.net -- Parent Zone -- Parent University -- Gifted Education

• Click here to learn more about the Gifted Education Parent Council.
• Click here to learn what other classes Parent University is offering this school year.

ASU Barrett Summer Scholars

From the ASU website: 

The Barrett Summer Scholars (BSS) program provides students with the opportunity to experience college firsthand and prepare for enrollment and success at Arizona State University and Barrett, the Honors College. The program is designed for academically-talented and motivated students entering the 8th, 9th, and 10th grade in fall 2018. Our residential program invites students to live on campus, engage in college-level coursework, and participate in a community of peers from across the state.

Click here to visit the ASU Barrett Summer Scholars website for more information.

Application deadline is March 5, 2018.

Local STEM Event

GILBERT EVENT

FOR STUDENTS GRADES 8-12

DATE:  March 3 - 4, 2018

TIME:  8 am - 6 pm

LOCATION:  Mesquite High School

EVENT SPONSOR:  Orbital ATK

Go For Launch! is a 2-day program (10 hours each day) that uses Space Exploration as a platform to launch student involvement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), STEAM (Art), teamwork, communication and leadership. This program is created and presented by Higher Orbits, a non-profit, and was developed to reach high school-aged students.

Students are immersed in the wonder of Human Spaceflight through a variety of talks delivered by experts in the fields of space & STEM: such speakers have included an astronaut, former International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Flight Controllers, Astronaut Instructors, scientists, and engineers. Students get insight and feedback from experienced space and STEM professionals whose goals are to illustrate the numerous possibilities that exist in the world of STEM. A unique facet of Go For Launch! is that the students will work with an astronaut for during their time at the event.

Broken into teams, students will work together for the entire event. Nearly every talk features collaborative activity, before or after, where team members must work together to complete tasks for daily awards. These tasks are designed to build leadership and teamwork skills, as well as enhance team communication. The culminating exercise is a design project. Each team must define and design a space experiment. At the conclusion of each program, the teams will present their ideas to a panel of judges from the Space & STEM fields, who will then choose a winner from each Go For Launch! event. Depending on funding, the experiment will either launch, or it will be in competition with a handful of other projects from the same division and the division winner will have their experiment launched to the International Space Station.

One winning team will be selected from each individual Go For Launch! event. Winners within each division will compete for the division title and the winners of each division will have their experiments launched to space!

In September 2017 a team from Mesquite High School won the national competition and in November 2017 their experiment was launched into space to be studied at the International Space Station.  

• Visit the Go for Launch! website to learn more about this unique opportunity for students grades 8-12.
• Visit the Gilbert Go for Launch! event site to learn more about the local event and registration.  Registration is now open.

ASU Open Door 2018

Please join in the fun at ASU Open Door @ Polytechnic on Jan. 26, from 4-9 p.m. on the ASU Polytechnic campus!

ASU Open Door @ Polytechnic offers a behind the scenes look into ASU’s state-of-the-art labs and learning environments. Come experience flight simulators, air traffic control simulators, the wonders of algae, new-age cars, play classic video games, and enjoy dance and theater performances.

Click here to visit the ASU Polytechnic site for more info on their Open Door event.

Click here for information on all ASU 2018 Open Door events.