Purdue to host gifted students at summer residential camps
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - High-achieving students who have completed the fifth through 12th grades can take part in summer residential camps sponsored by the Purdue College of Education's Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI) in June and July.
For more than 30 years these camps have offered a wide range of educational classes and social activities designed to give students an opportunity to experience an academic environment and life on a college campus.
Dates for camps are as follows:
* June 27-July 10: Star I (for students completing grades 7-8)
* June 27-July 10: Pulsar I (for students completing grades 9-12)
* July 11-24: Star II (for students completing grades 7-8)
* July 11-24: Pulsar II (for students completing grades 9-12)
* July 11-17: Comet I (for students completing grades 5-6) – commuter and residential option
* July 18-24: Comet II (for students completing grades 5-6) – commuter and residential option
The hands-on classes are designed to allow students the opportunity for in-depth immersion in topics that include engineering, forensics, law, journalism, literature, history, physics, premedicine, anatomy, chemistry and computer science.
In addition to the residential camps, the institute also offers Super Summer, a day camp for gifted and talented children ages 4 (pre-kindergarten) through fourth grade. A variety of classes are offered on topics such as science, animals, space, archeology and painting.
Dates for Super Summer are as follows:
*Super Summer I: June 14-18
*Super Summer II: June 21-25
Pre-kindergarten children must be eligible to start kindergarten in the fall of 2010.
For more information on the institute's summer residential camps, visit https://www.purdue.edu/geri or e-mail geri@purdue.edu
Source: Nielsen Pereira, Gifted Education Resource Institute, 765-494-7241, npereira@purdue.edu