1. Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students (C-MITES)

2. Overview of C-MITES Activities
Educational programs
Weekend Workshops
Summer Program
Steppingstones
Elementary Student
Talent Search
Publications
Teacher training
Parent workshops
Research

3. Fun Classes for Bright Kids

4. Educational Programs
Purpose: Provide fun, challenging educational opportunities to academically talented students
Financial aid
Awarded to 10% of students
Over $40,000 awarded each year

5. Educational Programs Hands-on Higher-level thinking
Small group, whole class, and individual activities
Problem-solving strategies
Investigative approach, not just teaching algorithms

6. Weekend Workshops Saturdays and Sundays during academic year
Locations:
Carnegie Mellon University
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA
Glenside Elem School, Glenside, PA
Approximately 3,200 students per year (first come, first served)

7. Weekend Workshops Kindergarten – 10th grade
Instructors are local teachers, CMU professors & graduate students, and experts in their fields
$85 per workshop ($135 full day)
Financial aid available

8. Weekend Workshops Sample classes: Egg Drop Physics
Write Your Own Web Page
Science of Harry
Potter
Skeletal Remains
Ice Cream Science
Robotics
Creative Writing

9. Summer Program 2-week sessions 1-week sessions Approximately
30 locations
across Pennsylvania
Serves approximately 500 students annually

10. Summer Program Cost ranges from $255 to $550
Students who take EXPLORE through C-MITES get a discount
Financial aid available

11. Summer Program Grades 1-9
Submit EXPLORE scores or other above-level test scores
Teacher recommendation
Information about academic/extracurricular activities
Limited space in some classes
NOT first come, first served

12. Summer Program Sample classes: Amusement Park Physics
Programming Using Alice
Informal Geometry
C02 Dragsters
Robotics
Structures
Kitchen Science

13. C-MITES JUNIORS New Summer Program
CMU campus and nearby
Half-day classes
Optional afternoon program
1st and 2nd grades
Financial aid available
Application (not first-come, first served)

14. Steppingstones: August Classes
CMU campus
Full day classes
Kindergarten - 10th grades
$85 - $135 per class
Financial aid available
First come, first served

15. Who teaches the classes?
Majority are regular classroom teachers
CMU faculty (may be an outreach component to a grant)
Grad students
Some volunteers

16. Elementary Student Talent Search Testing
Provide detailed information about student abilities to families and schools
Above-level testing
Approx. 1,000 students at 50 different test sites throughout PA each year
3rd – 6th graders

17. ESTS: C-MITES EXPLORE Test
Grades 3-6
95th percentile on one section of a grade-level achievement test
EXPLORE Test was designed by ACT for 8th graders
EXPLORE subtests include English, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics and Science
Final deadline to register for this year is Feb. 10th

18. Why Do a Talent Search?

19. Why Do a Talent Search?
Above-level tests raise the “ceiling” and identify levels of giftedness
Profile academic strengths
Inform educational programming and curriculum
Priority in the C-MITES Summer Program
C-MITES “membership”
May participate in research

20. ESTS Test dates for 2013-2014 school year: Registration deadlines:
November 9 (Saturday)
January 25 (Saturday)
January 26 (Sunday)
February 15 (Saturday)
March 1 or 2 (Sat/Sun)
Registration deadlines:
October 4, ($75/$25 with fee waiver)
October 5 - January 15, fee is $85 ($35 with fee waiver). Final deadline Feb. 10th $85.
7th and 8th graders should participate in CTY Talent Search

21. Why should my child participate?
Academic benefits
Social benefits
Long-term benefits
Because it’s fun!

22. Student comments
“I’d rather attend C-MITES programs all year instead of going to my regular school.”

23. Contact information
(412) , ext.1

24. Questions?