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The Cooke Young Scholars Program is a highly selective, five-year pre-college scholarship for exceptionally promising 7th grade students with financial need. Scholars receive individualized academic and college advising plus financial support for rigorous schooling, summer…
Gift-a-Palooza 2026, sponsored by Gifted and Thriving, is a two-day virtual summit on giftedness, twice-exceptionality, and neurodiversity that brings together top experts, gifted adults, parents, educators, and health professionals for live and pre-recorded sessions, panels,…
Davidson Explore is an online program for gifted middle school students to take à la carte courses in math, science, and humanities. Throughout the academic year, we offer online information sessions focused on Explore.…
Supporting Parents of Twice-Exceptional Children Julie Skolnick is launching a new Gifted & Distractible Parent Course cohort for parents of twice-exceptional children beginning January 15. This eight-week course, built around her award-winning book, Gifted and Distractible, helps…
Application season has begun for Epsilon Camp, a two-week summer residential camp for young students who show exceptional promise in mathematics. Epsilon connects profoundly gifted children (ages 7-12) with professional mathematicians and fosters a…
The 2026 Davidson Summer Programs application is now available! The Davidson Institute has had the privilege of serving profoundly gifted students through our summer programs since 2004. Davidson Summer Programs allows Young Scholars the…
Designed to be different than other online courses, Explore offers rigorous, advanced, full-year middle school courses that are modeled off of expectations at middle school courses at Davidson Academy Online. Students will be expected to work…
November 2025 — The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted, has announced the upcoming release of Highly-Profoundly Gifted: Universal Understandings and Holistic Approaches, edited by Els De Wit and Vanessa Wood,…
2025 Davidson Fellow Zinia Khattar was recently featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune for being named a Davidson Fellow and receiving a $50,000 scholarship. The article discusses her research on mitochondrial health and recognizes her…
2025 Davidson Fellow James Gu was recently featured in the Tri-City Voice for being named a Davidson Fellow and receiving a $25,000 scholarship. The article highlights James’ achievement and discusses his project and inspirations. Read the…
The 2026 Fellows Scholarship application is now available online. Young people 18 and younger have the opportunity to earn a $100,000, $50,000 or $25,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in…
Update – View the video here: The Davidson Fellows Scholarship is dedicated to honoring young people for their work in the STEM and Humanities fields, as well as Outside the Box. Recognized by Forbes as “one…