SENGChat: Challenge, Community, & Opportunity: Exploring a University Radical Acceleration Program for Girls Age 12-16
Tue, Apr 23
|Online Event


Time & Location
Apr 23, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Online Event
About The Event
Radical acceleration has been proven to be an effective educational intervention (Assouline et al., 2015; Gross & van Vliet, 2005). Results include demonstrating strong social and emotional skills, individual income far above the national average, and completing more higher education degrees (Hertzog & Chung, 2015; Jett & Rinn, 2020; Wilson, 2021 ). In this way, the opportunity to pursue radical acceleration can address the educational malnourishment that many gifted students face in the K-12 education system (Cross, 2014).
Founded in 1985, Mary Baldwin University's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) is a unique researchbased program for gifted girls aged 12-16 who want to pursue their university career early by living in the PEG dorm and attending university classes. PEG students receive services such as specially trained staff, mentoring, optional in-house counseling, Peer Advising, and peer led programming. This allows them to perform their best and explore the many opportunities on…
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$40.00
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