A summer camp for gifted youth (13-16 years old) featured two field archaeology sessions in which students participated in excavation and field trips to nearby archaeological sites along with traditional camp activities. (CL)

The Georgia Governor's Honors Program features six-week enrichment programs for gifted high school students in the gifted areas of interest: communication arts, mathematics, science, social studies, visual arts, music, voice, design, executive management, theater, dance, and foreign languages. (CL)

A summer enrichment program integrated language arts skills with outdoor education to produce a qualitatively different program to meet the needs of gifted students. (CL)

The article describes a summer residential enrichment program for gifted students in grades seven to nine. The program featured collaboration between the Junior League of Columbus, Ohio, and Ohio Wesleyan University. (CL)

Nine to 14-year-old writers who participated in the Young People's Institute, a summer program for gifted and talented students, worked on tasks based on the Enrichment Triad Model. Examples of the work from their anthology are presented. (CL)

The article describes College Academy, a summer school program for gifted and academically talented elementary children in Framingham, Massachusetts, designed to offer imaginative and challenging courses unavailable in a regular school setting. (DLS)

The report of an intensive tour of 11 special summer programs for gifted and talented students includes descriptions of the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan; National High School Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Governors programs (with a table giving information in 10 categories); and talent searches. (MC)

Under a "Youth Grant in the Hunamities" from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ten culturally different gifted high school students studied the lives of American heroes whose actions provoked controversies in the period from 1870-1950. (SBH)

A three-week writing institute for middle and high school aspiring writers was judged positively by participants and parents. The institute featured parent involvement and included plans for continuation. (CL)

The section on summer programs for the gifted includes a directory of 62 programs and eight brief articles on independent learning; Project IDEA, a psychomotor program; miscellaneous offerings; The College Academy, Framingham College, MA; The College for Kids Project, IL; environmental education; an animal behavior course; and a summer academy.…

The article discusses, in question and answer format, some considerations for parents of the gifted in selecting a summer camp for their child. Aspects covered include needs and interests of the child, staff to camper ratio, camp accreditation, health and safety precautions, and program structure. (DLS)

The article discusses two ways gifted high school students can accumulate college credits while in high school: through the advanced placement program and through college courses on a part-time basis during the academic year or in a summer program. (CL)

The Appel Farm Arts and Music Center is the setting for an international summer arts camp for children 6-18 years old who are gifted in the arts. The camp is described in terms of its beginnings, tuition and scholarships, and staffing. (CL)

Followup responses of 1976 and 1977 participants in the Georgia Governor's Honors Program, a six-week summer program for gifted students, and analysis of learning styles suggested that Ss who report a right cerebral hemisphere or integrated learning style made significantly more applications of their new learnings than Ss with a left hemisphere…

The article describes a model two-week summer enrichment program for gifted and talented sixth- and seventh-graders in King William County, Virginia, a rural, low socioeconomic area. (DLS)