Academic Competitions for Gifted Students : A Resource Book for Teachers and Parents
by Mary K. Tallent-RunnelsEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-11-19
Publisher(s): Corwin Pr
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Summary
This handbook covers 170 competitions, criteria for selecting events that match students' strengths/weaknesses, strategies for maximizing the benefits of competitions, and ways to avoid potential problems.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Making Decisions About Competitive Programs for Gifted Students | |
| How to Use This Book | |
| Characteristics of Good Competitions | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Authors | |
| Selecting, Preparing for, and Participating in Competitions | |
| Selected Characteristics and Needs of Gifted and Talented Students | |
| How They Influence Contest Participation | |
| Effects of Competition: Good News | |
| Effects of Competition: Bad News | |
| How to Anticipate and Avoid Problems in the Use of Competitions | |
| How to Maximize Benefits From Competitions | |
| References | |
| Competition Descriptions | |
| AAA High School Travel Challenge | |
| AATSP Elementary/Middle School Poster Contest | |
| Academic Decathlon | |
| Academic Games Leagues of America National Tournament | |
| Academic Triathlon | |
| Achievement Awards in Writing | |
| All-USA High School Academic Team Competition | |
| Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Scholastic Art and Writing Awards | |
| Amateur Poetry Contest | |
| American Computer Science League | |
| American Enterprise Speech Contest | |
| American History Essay Contest | |
| American Invitational Mathematics Exam | |
| American Mathematics Competitions | |
| American Mathematics Contest 8American Regions Mathematics League | |
| American Scholastics Mathematics Competition | |
| American Society of Newspaper Editors, Quill and Scroll International Writing, Photo Contest | |
| American Veterans (AMVETS) Americanism Program | |
| Ann Arlys Bowler Poetry Contest | |
| Arts Recognition and Talent Search | |
| Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) Student Publishing Awards | |
| Ayn Rand Essay Contest | |
| Baker''s Plays High School Playwriting Contest | |
| BEST Robotics Competition | |
| Biz Plan Competition | |
| Botball Robotics | |
| Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge | |
| Cane Writing Contest | |
| Chemistry Olympiad | |
| Christopher Columbus Awards | |
| Civic Education Project - Civic Week | |
| Clarke-Bradbury Science Fiction Competition | |
| Classical Association of New England | |
| Community Innovation | |
| Concord Review Emerson Prize | |
| Continental Mathematics League | |
| Creative Writing Essay Contest | |
| Cricket League Contest | |
| Destination Imagination | |
| Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge | |
| Doors to Diplomacy | |
| DuPont Challenge Science Essay Awards Program | |
| Duracell/NSTA Scholarship Competitione | |
| Cybermission | |
| Edventures Robotics Contest | |
| Engineer | |
| Girl Essay Contest(Toshiba NSTA)/Explora | |
| Vision Awards Program | |
| Federal Reserve Bank FED CHALLENGEFederal Reserve Bank Student Essay Contest | |
| Fire Fighting Robot Contest | |
| First Middle-Grade Novel Contest | |
| FIRST Robotics Competition | |
| First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| First Young Adult Novel | |
| Foundations for Life National Essay Program & Contest | |
| Frazier Institute Student Essay Contest | |
| Freedom Foundation National Awards Program | |
| Future City Competition | |
| Future Problem Solving Program | |
| George S. & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest | |
| Harry Singer Foundation Essay Contests | |
| Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament | |
| High School Communications Competition"Idea of America" Essay Contest | |
| Intel International Science and Engineering Fair | |
| Intel Science Talent Search | |
| International Brain Bee | |
| International Mathematics Olympiad | |
| International Student Media Festival | |
| Invent America!Invitational Mathematics Examination | |
| Jane Austen Society of North America''s Essay Contest | |
| Japan Bowl | |
| JFK Profiles in courage Essay Contest | |
| Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest | |
| Junior Engineering Technical Society, Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science | |
| Junior Science and Humanities Symposia | |
| Kids Are Authors | |
| Kids Can Write Contest | |
| Kids Philosophy Slam | |
| Kids | |
| Bookshelf Contests | |
| Knowledge Master Open (KMO)Laws of Life Essay Contest | |
| League of American Poets Free Poetry Contest | |
| Let''s Get Real | |
| Letters about Literature Competition | |
| Mandelbrot Competition | |
| Manningham Student Poetry Awards | |
| MATHCOUNTSMathematical Olympiads for Elementary Schools | |
| Math Leagues | |
| Medusa Mythology Exam | |
| Merlyn''s Pen Literary Magazine Contest and Critique | |
| Modern Woodmen of America School Speech | |
| NAACP ACT-SONASA Space Settlement Contest | |
| National Achievement½ Scholarship Program | |
| National African American History Academic Challenge Bowl | |
| National American Indian Science and Engineering Fair | |
| National Beta Club Convention | |
| National Biblical Greek Exam | |
| National Canon Envirothon | |
| Nation | |
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