Project ROLE (Regional Opportunities for Leadership Experience), an approach to helping gifted adolescents develop leadership potential through a regional internship/seminar experience, is described in terms of student goals, conceptual framework, identification procedure, student evaluation model, and academic credit policy. It is explained that highly gifted and talented 11th and 12th graders were selected to take a semester's leave from regular studies to serve as interns to government, agency, institutonal, arts, and private sector decision makers. Interns worked with individual sponsors four days per week and a seminar with the Project ROLE coordinator one day per week. The seminar focused on such topics as time management, communications, management skills, and job interviewing. (Project forms are included.) (CL)