Program for Gifted Students!

https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2007/winter/c-mites-program.shtml

Enriching Experiences for Gifted Kids

The recipe goes like this: Take 3,000 bright kids bubbling with curiosity.

Place them on Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus.

Mix with talented local teachers enthusiastic about math and science.

Top with all kinds of fun stuff to do.

It's a recipe for getting kids excited about learning, and if past success is any kind of an indicator — it works.

"The C-MITES program is all about hands-on learning," said Ann Lupkowski Shoplik, who founded the community outreach program in 1992.

"Our kids don't sit in their seats passively listening to a lecture. The kids are down on the floor; they're playing games, doing experiments."

Open to students from kindergarten through ninth grade, C-MITES invites kids to solve murder mysteries; reconstruct fossils; join the Space Shuttle and Mission Control to save islanders from a volcano and a hurricane; even recreate Harry Potter's magic in the laboratory.

For information about the continuation of this program;

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-268-2000