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Georgia Tech January workshops for grades 2-12
Georgia Tech has opened registration for the first round of K.I.D.S. Club and STEAM Workshop classes for 2024, to be held on Saturday, January 13, from 9 a.m. to noon on the Georgia Tech campus.
K.I.D.S. Club is open to students in grades 2 through 5. STEAM Workshops are for students in grades 6 through 12. Workshops cover a variety of topics including sound, coding, polymers, robotics, evolution and earth science.
Cost to attend is $65 per student. Need-based scholarships, funded by the Georgia Department of Education, are available to students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches at school. Visit the CEISMC BOOST Scholarship page to learn more about scholarship eligibility and submit an application.
Additional K.I.D.S. Club and STEAM Workshops dates for the spring season are February 17, March 16 and April 13, 2024.
American Mathematics Competition coming to Emory next month
Emory University will offer the AMC 8 math competition exam to students in 8th grade or below next month.
The exam, according to the American Mathematics Competition, is “a 40-minute multiple choice exam covering subjects such as counting and probability, estimation, proportional reasoning, elementary geometry including the Pythagorean Theorem, spatial visualization, everyday applications, and reading and interpreting graphs and tables. In addition, some of the later questions may involve linear or quadratic functions and equations, coordinate geometry, and other topics traditionally covered in a beginning algebra course.” The exam is meant to be a fun, friendly competition. Students who score well may earn recognition, but there are no prizes.
Emory will host the exam on Thursday, January 18, in the evening. To register, complete the interest form, and Emory will send you a registration link. There is no fee to take the exam at Emory.
If Emory isn’t a convenient location for you, you can look for other schools hosting the exam by using AMC’s competition locations page. Note that host schools can decide whether to allow children who don’t attend their school to take the exam.
Summer planning starts now
I say the same thing most every December: Can it really be time to make summer plans already?
Indeed, it really can. Summer camps and programs are starting to open registration for summer 2024. Even if you’re not ready to make a decision, you might want to start thinking about the possibilities.
The Summer Programs page on GiftedAtlanta.com lists dozens of options. I’ve organized them by age — one section for elementary- and middle-school, and another for high school. I verified all the links today, so I hope you won’t hit any dead ends.
Programs do make changes from time to time, particularly with ages served or location, so there may be a rare case where the brief description on the Summer Programs page doesn’t match up exactly with the details on a program’s website. If you find any discrepancies, would you please let me know by sending a message through the Contact page?
Also, if you have summer programs to recommend, please let me know. As my kids have gotten older, I haven’t done as much searching for programs as I used to. I’m sure there are new options out there that could be added to the list. Thank you.
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