This article describes the design and operation of the 1998 Chinese University Summer Gifted program organized for junior secondary students in Hong Kong. This one week residential program provided enrichment courses, workshops, and special activities intended to enhance students' creativity and leadership abilities. Participants, instructors,…

Describes a science teacher's personal experiences at an Earthwatch summer workshop in Costa Rica on caterpillars and their predators in the dry tropical forest. (YDS)

Describes the Mississippi Governor's School, an intensive three-week summer school for gifted high school students. Explains format of major courses, use of the American Chemical Society computer course in polymer chemistry, discussion sections, and hands-on laboratory. (JM)

In recent research, female adolescents have been found to prefer history, language, and writing courses, while male adolescents have been found to prefer mathematics and science courses. These gender differences in course selection occurred despite the fact that female and male adolescents performed equally well in these courses. This study…

Describes a summer workshop in Pennsylvania for high school students which was to provide students with an orientation and introduction to aviation and aerospace and to give them a background understanding of several phases of the subject. (BR)

Describes how a high school yearbook workshop helped student photographers and editors learn to work together to produce unique and interesting yearbooks. (MM)

This directory is a reference for students and faculty to learn about extracurricular mathematics-based intervention projects. The individual projects are directed for the most part by collegiate mathematicians and held on their campuses. The "Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement" (SUMMA) Consortium of the…

Describes the efforts of St. Paul's School in Concord (New Hampshire) to join with local agencies and public schools to provide students with practical experiences and advanced programs. For its 125th anniversary, St. Paul's sponsored a series of seminar discussions on school effectiveness that included a national group of scholars. (WD)

Describes a study conducted (1) to determine the perceptions of vocational agriculture teachers and their administrators toward selected summer program activities, and (2) to determine if differences exist between vocational agriculture teachers and superintendents in their perceptions of the importance of selected summer program activities. (CT)

Theoretical and practical considerations for providing severely physically disabled youth access to experiences in vocational development and career planning are presented. A comprehensive career development program developed by the Vocational Services Department of the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (New York) is described. (SBH)

Two vocational agriculture teachers discuss long term planning, student eligibility, final planning, and overall value of 4-day summer trips to points of agricultural interest throughout the State of Oklahoma. (JT)

Presents 10 essays on Columbia Scholastic Press Association's summer workshop which brought students together to build skills and consider new concepts. Discusses a veteran teacher's reasons for attending workshops, opportunities to taste city life, the bond of student journalists, editorial challenges, emphasis on yearbooks' possibilities, and…

Proposes that workshops help students by giving them: a chance to spend time on a college campus; an opportunity for recognition; and quality instruction. Notes that staffs then benefit because workshops give them: new ideas; time to develop ideas and plan for the year; and the opportunity to bond. Concludes that teachers also benefit because…

This interview, with an administrator and an evaluator of the Summer Career Institute of Gifted Minority Students and Females held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, addresses the topics of making career choices, prejudice of school personnel toward gifted minority students, identification procedures, cultural influences, and the role of…

Discusses the experiences of a fictitious teacher and events surrounding a fictitious summer institute for writing teachers--experiences which sound a great deal like Alice's adventures in Wonderland. (RS)