The Center for Gifted Studies

Oct 30th, 2019

Master Mathematicians, Impact the World: Leadership for Girls, and Pop Art Printmaking are a few of the 26 classes bringing 415 students from across the region to WKU’s campus for the 27th year of Fall Super Saturdays.

Sep 10th, 2019

A live Q&A session with astronauts aboard the International Space Station will stream this Friday, September 13, at 9:50 a.m. in the Great Room of The Gatton Academy.

Sep 9th, 2019

Registration is now open for Fall Super Saturdays. The 2019 slate of classes kicks off on Saturday, November 2. Coordinated by The Center for Gifted Studies, Super Saturdays encourages students in grades 1 – 8 who are of high ability or have high interest

Aug 29th, 2019

Registration is now open for the 2019 Berta Seminar, an annual event exploring the social and emotional needs of gifted children. Noted child psychologist Dr. Sylvia Rimm will present at both a session for parents of gifted children and as a day-long work

Aug 8th, 2019

The annual Twice-Exceptional Students Seminar will host Dr. Susan Baum, a national expert on gifted young people with one or more disabilities. She will present “Strength-Based, Talent-Focused Strategies for 2e Students with Differently Wired Brains."

Jul 19th, 2019

NSCF was awarded a highly competitive NASA downlink for its National STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Scholar Program, a partnership with The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science on the campus of Western Kentucky University. The astr

Jul 17th, 2019

The Center for Gifted Studies will take 25 qualifying students and other interested adults on a trip to learn the history, culture, and people of Venice and Vienna October 4 -12, 2019. This program is designed to provide participants with a carefully

Jul 16th, 2019

The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC) will host its 23rd Biennial World Conference, “A World of Possibilities: Gifts, Talents, and Potential,” July 24 – 28, 2019, in Nashville, TN.

Jun 25th, 2019

For one week every summer, the Advanced Placement Summer Institute (APSI) at WKU gathers Advanced Placement (AP) teachers from across the country on WKU’s campus to learn content, strategies, and pedagogy in an environment that fosters professional devel

Jun 24th, 2019

The Center for Gifted Studies welcomed 157 students to WKU Sunday evening for the Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth (VAMPY), a three-week program that runs from June 23 to July 13. Attendees come from 11 states as well as th