Alabama Association for Gifted Children (AAGC)

AAGC Members, In celebration of our 30 years as an organization, we have decided to revamp our Gifted Education Month (GEM) activities. Our theme is “Gifted Students, the GEMs of our Future!”. We are suggesting 9 activities for gifted students to participate in to let people in our state know what gifted students do in their classrooms. The 7 contest activity areas are Creativity, Talent Showcase, Robotics, Multiculturalism, Research and Writing, Technology, Science, Art, and Math Fusions. We have 2 activities that are not contests but are a way for AAGC to advocate for more funding for our programs, they are: Share Your Story and Legislators. We would like you to start any of these activities as soon as possible and share them with your district, your communities, other school districts, stakeholders, and legislators by posting your gifted class’ GEMs activities on social media, calling, visiting and Zoom meetings to showcase your students’ talents for legislators. Our hope is for others to see that we are doing exciting things with our gifted students and to also advocate for more funding so we can do more. Our GEM month will begin the second week of January and extend until the second week of February (January 7th through February 7th). Our goal is to showcase all the amazing activities between now and the end of our GEM celebration. Seven of the nine activities will have rubrics we want teachers to complete before submitting them to our contests. Because we are treading on new ground and not sure how many of our GEM activities will be completed, we will only have age categories once the GEM committee sees how many and in what areas the submissions will be, then we can break the activities into categories. Maximum participation in these GEM activities is greatly needed to achieve our goals and to make our state aware of gifted “Celebrating 30 Years of Nurturing Gifted Minds.”