Pembroke Pines Gifted Boy tackling a double major at FIU
The Pembroke Pines preteen, who is classified as ''profoundly gifted,'' started taking classes at FIU when he was 10. ''I felt really, really small,'' he said. For this 12-year-old, the youngest student ever to attend FIU, college is a long-awaited challenge and a daily adventure. ''We have fun here,'' he said as he prepared to start a work sheet on pistons, gases, and pressure with his lab partners. Welcome to the world of Sky, who is taking a full course load of physics, calculus, and Chinese language classes at the university -- and still finds time to play pool and table tennis in the game room at the West Miami-Dade campus. A home-schooler who has a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do and is fluent in Korean, he is dual enrolled and officially finishing high school at the end of this semester.When he starts classes in the fall as a full-fledged college student, he'll have as many credits as a sophomore. Read full story.
Public Service Internships in Broward
The Broward County Public Service Intern Program seeks motivated high school senior graduates to gain paid professional experience in exciting public service careers including engineering, law, marketing/public relations, and information technology. If this is the direction you want to head in, then check out these files with details: Public Service Intern Brochure, Public Service Flyer, Job Descriptions, Detailed presentation.
Implementation of electronic textbooks
A full complement of e-textbooks, teachers and/or student editions, are available for courses with district-wide adoptions in science, world languages, and reading. In addition, elementary math and high school social studies courses are also available. See memo and flyer with the announcement.
*** NEW *** Broward Gifted Advisory Council meetings now "live" via webcast
The Broward Gifted Advisory Council is very excited to announce that the monthly Council meetings will now be made available "live" via webcast. We want to encourage parents to participate in the meetings in person, but we also understand that demands on time and resources (gas prices) don't always allow all parents to participate. So now we are coming to you!!! Click here to learn how to join our meetings via the web. Did you miss a meeting? Video recordings will also be posted on our site. Click on the Meetings Tab and select 2008-2009 meetings from the left menu.
New School for Gifted Children Grades 3-8.
The CITY Academy is a congregated setting for intellectually talented students from grade three to eight. The CITY Academy is designed to provide specialized instruction and a peer group for gifted children who require a differentiated program to meet their special needs. It is intended to be an environment that values and enhances above-average ability, passion, creativity, and task commitment in the students. The CITY Academy is a school within Arthur Ashe Middle School which is expected to evolve into CITY Magnet. Click here for complete details.