Enrichment Options
What extracurricular opportunities are good for gifted kids?
Just about anything, if it taps into the student's passions, lets him interact with intellectual peers, and is mentally stimulating.
Like what? Check out this list of ideas. We’ve aimed to sort this based on a school year calendar so you know what might be going on at a given time.
What else do YOU recommend?
Just about anything, if it taps into the student's passions, lets him interact with intellectual peers, and is mentally stimulating.
Like what? Check out this list of ideas. We’ve aimed to sort this based on a school year calendar so you know what might be going on at a given time.
- FIRST Lego Robotics (season registration/activities begin in August, events through April/May)
- National Geographic GeoBee (registration from August, state in March, nationals in May)
- Computational Linguistics Olympiad (registration from September; event January)
- USA Biology Olympiad (registration from September, initial event January)
- US Chemistry Olympiad (registration from September, local events in March)
- National History Bee (Ind) & Bowl (Team) (registration from September, regionals Feb/March, nationals May/June)
- American Mathematics Competition (MS registration Oct / event Nov; HS registration Dec / event Jan)
- Regeneron Science Talent Search (registration due November)
- Speech and Debate (events from late fall; state late January/early Feb)
- Montana MathCounts (registration deadline December, local events in February, state in March)
- Destination Imagination (register by Dec-Jan, state tournament in April)
- Academic Decathlon for HS - Pentathlon for MS (nationals in April)
- US Chess Federation (events ongoing)
- Citizen science projects (events ongoing)
- Camp Invention (summer STEM programs)
What else do YOU recommend?