Regional Talent Search Programs
Regional talent searches are conducted annually to identify gifted students
throughout the nation. Each location provides academic courses for middle and high school
students, and some centers provide courses for younger students. For more information, contact
one of the following:
Center for Talent Development (CTD)
Northwestern University
617 Dartmouth Place
Evanston, IL 60208
847.491.3782
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/
Duke University
Talent Identification Program (TIP)
PO Box 90747
Durham, NC 27708-0747
919.684.3847
http://www.tip.duke.edu/
Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
Johns Hopkins University
McAuley Hall 5801 Smith Ave.
Suite 400
Baltimore, MD 21209
410.735.6277
http://www.cty.jhu.edu/
Rocky Mountain Talent Search
2135 E. Wesley Avenue
200 Wesley Hall
University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208
303.871.2983
http://www.du.edu/education/ces/rmts.html
Additional Gifted Centers
Gifted Centers provide a range of services including graduate programs, talent
identification, conferences, and enrichment programs for students. This list is
not intended to be comprehensive. It is merely a starting point for researching
information on gifted education.
California
University of California at Berkeley
Academic Talent Development Program
UC Berkeley ATDP
Graduate School of Education
3639 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
510.642.8308
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu
Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY)
Ventura Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4115
http://www-epgy.stanford.edu/epgy/
Colorado
Gifted Child Development Center
1452 Marion Street
Denver, CO 80218
303.837.TEST
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/
Indiana
Purdue University
Gifted Education Resource Institute
1446 Liberal Arts and Educational Building
West Lafayette, IN 47906-1446
http://www.geri.soe.purdue.edu/
Iowa
The Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
The University of Iowa
210 Lindquist Center
Iowa City, IA 52242-1529
319.335.6148
http://www.uiowa.edu/~belinctr
Kentucky
The Center for Gifted Studies
School of Integrative Studies in Teacher Education
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576
502.745.6323 (phone)
502.745.6279 (fax)
http://www.wku.edu/SISTE/gift.htm
Louisiana
The ADVANCE Program for Young Scholars
Northwestern State University
Programs for the Gifted and Talented
PO Box 5671
Natchitoches, LA 71497
318.357.4500
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Center for Gifted Education
PO Box 4-3251
Lafayette, LA 70504-3251
318.482.6701
http://www.coe.louisiana.edu/centers/gifted.html
Minnesota
Minnesota Gifted and Talented Development Center
Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning
Mary Pfeifer, Manager, Teaching and Learning
1500 Highway 36 West
Roseville, MN 55113-4266
651.582.8700
E-mail: mary.pfeifer@state.mn.us
http://cfl2.state.mn.us/ci/programs/gifted/index.htm (no longer available)
Mississippi
The Center for Gifted Studies
University of Southern Mississippi
Southern Station Box 8207
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-8207
601.266.5236
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~gifted/
New Jersey
The Gifted Child Clinic
Institute for the Study of Child Development
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
97 Patterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 09803
908.937.7759
http://www2.umdnj.edu/iscdweb/
New York
The Leta Hollingworth Center for the Study of the Gifted Columbia University, Teachers
College
New York, NY 10027
212.678.3851
http://www.tc.columbia.edu
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students (C-MITES)
Carnegie Mellon University
4902 Forbes Avenue, #6261
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
412.268.1629
http://www.cmu.edu/cmites/
Texas
Talented and Gifted Institute
Southern Methodist University
PO Box 750383
Dallas, TX 75275-0383
214.768.5437
http://www.smu.edu/continuing_education/youth/gsi/index.asp
Virginia
Center for Gifted Education
The College of William and Mary
PO Box 8795, 232 Jamestown Road
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
804.221.2351
http://cfge.wm.edu/
(Assessment, interpretation, individual educational plans, consultation, counseling,
educational information.)
The University of Virginia
Curry School of Education
Ruffner Hall, 405 Emmet Street
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2495
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.edu/gifted/home.html/
Washington
Halbert Robinson Center for the Study of Capable Youth Guthrie Annex II, NI-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
206.543.4160
E-mail: cscy@u.washington.edu
http://depts.washington.edu/cscy/
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth
WCATY
2909 Landmark Place
Madison, WI 53713
608.271.1617
E-mail: info@wcaty.org
http://www.wcaty.org
Wisconsin Center for Gifted Learners
217 West Dunwood Road
Milwaukee, WI 53217
414.351.4441
E-mail: wcgl@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~wcgl
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