Duke University Talent Identification Program
A world leader in identifying academically talented students and providing innovative programs to support their educational development, Duke TIP gives students a chance to learn more about their abilities. Through identification, recognition, information, advocacy, challenging educational programs, and research, TIP offers a wide array of services to students in grades 4-12, their parents, educators, and schools. Duke TIP enjoys a long history of supporting and extending local efforts to better understand, motivate, enrich, and academically challenge the brightest students in our nation.
www.tip.duke.edu
tguidry@tip.duke.edu
Enrichment Programs via University of Houston
Engineering Camp
New to University of Houston Summer Program is the Engineering Camp. Like students with talent in athletics or the arts, students with academic talent deserve the opportunity to develop their skills to the highest possible level. The University of Houston, along with Engineering for Kids, presents a week-long cameo of fun, engaging, and rewarding challenges that explore several engineering disciplines such as Aerospace, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, and Environmental Engineering. Students learn how engineers impact society, and experience engineering themselves through hands-on, creative investigations and design activities, where exploration and risk-taking are encouraged. While the focus is on S.T.E.M academics and project based learning, the social experience that results from bringing these students together is an integral part of the program which creates a summer to remember!
Children – 6 to 10 years
Engineering Your Own City
Wreck-it-Week
Engineering Medical Solutions: You’re the Architect
Children – 11 to 15 years
Mission Innovation: Engineering Breakthrough Energy Solutions
The Human Skeleton: Engineering Bones
Children – 14 to 17 years
Engineering Ecosystems
Writing Camp
WritingCamp is the place for young writers looking to find or develop their voices. The courses range from skills for beginning writers to skills for students who are preparing to enter college. These workshops are offered in conjunction with the Writers in the Schools organization (www.witshouston.org).
Creative Writing (age 7 to 8 years)
Magic Mirror
Make a Book!
Creative Writing (age 9 to 12 years)
Inside the Frame
Finding Wondrous Words
Performance Writing (age 13 to 16 years)
The Confident Writer
Brave New Worlds: Writing Fantasy & Sci-Fiction
High School Writing (age 15 to 18 years)
Ace the Essay: Writing Personal Statements and College Admissions Essays
Wired Words