Technologically Gifted

"When he was tested at the age of 5, instead of drawing a person, M drew a diode circuit and a transformer with a built-in plug. In his Sentence Completion test, M said he thinks most about "electronic circuits," dreams of "electronic circuits," hates when his brother gets into his electronics and destroys them, is unhappy sometimes when his circuits don’t work, that his mother and father help him with electronics, and when he gets older he’s going to be "somebody who does a lot of electronics." Imagine being M’s teacher and trying to teach him spelling!" Linda Kreger Silverman, Technical Wizards (requires ^{Adobe Reader})

Asperger's and IT: Dark secret or open secret? by Tracy Mayor, in Computerworld

Asperger's Syndrome has been a part of IT for as long as there's been IT. So why aren't we doing better by the Aspies among us?
 

Inventive Differentiation by Julie Rossbach

Young minds are full of promise and creativity. Many educators have chosen to capitalize on these characteristics by devising curricula based on the process of inventing
 

Meet the Whiz Kids: 10 Overachievers Under 21 by Dan Tyman, PC World

They're the next generation of entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators — and not one of them is old enough to buy beer.  The moral?  There's more than one way to be successful!
 

A Quiet Crisis is Clouding the Future of R&D by Joseph Renzulli, Education Week

What about support for the highly gifted, creative, and innovative young people whose ideas will create the products and jobs that start the wheels of productivity turning?
 

Student Interest in Computer Science Plummets by Andrea L. Foster, The Chronicle of Higher Education

The six-step invention process described is one that inventors typically utilize when creating and producing inventions
 

Technical Wizards by Linda Kreger Silverman

Some of the children we are least likely to understand, or deal with effectively in the schools, are those who are best suited to our technological future (requires ^{Adobe Reader})
 

Teen Helps Build Firefox Web Browser by John Pain, myway

Ross, now 19, a sophomore computer science major at Stanford University, has an even more impressive resume than most of his peers. Before graduating high school, he helped develop Firefox.  Colleagues who worked with Ross only online were surprised when they met him to find "a scrawny 15-year-old kid,"...