Secondary Gifted Program
Radford City Schools
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SWVGS juniors attend Math Boot Camp August 6 and 7 (makeup day is Saturday, August 22). Orientation at Selu will be August 10 and 11.
RHS/DIS teachers return to school on August 24; students return on August 31.
The local gifted advisory committee will meet at the School Board Office on Wadsworth Street at 4:00 p.m. on September 9. The meeting is open to the public.
Information about summer enrichment opportunities includes:
- http://www.eng.vt.edu/imagination A VT summer camp for rising 7th/8th graders (engineering/science).
- www.clemson.edu/summerscience Clemson's (SC) summer science, engineering and architecture enrichment camps (middle and high school levels)
- www.wm.edu/niahd William & Mary's pre-collegiate program in early American history
- april.auger@virginia.edu Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
- http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/sep UVA's Summer Enrichment Program (middle and high school levels)
- Rising 11th or 12th grade students interested in theatre should see Mrs. Swope for information about the Summer Residential Regional Governor's School at Wise.
- Rising 11th or 12th grade students interested in a free summer camp (math/science) to be conducted at the Oak Ridge Laboratories in TN (where the atomic bomb was developed) should see Mrs. Swope by Feb. 27. This is a FREE two-week camp and participants are housed in a hotel.
- Email abrown238@radford.edu for applications to RU's Summer Bridge Program (for rising 10th/11th/12th grade girls, this weeklong residential summer camp introduces young women to careers in science, technology, and math--sessions in code-breaking, crime scene analysis, analysis of food samples, and exploration of technological and social aspects of creating online communities). Two scholarships are available for New River Valley students.