AAGC Members,

As we encounter our 31st year as an organization, we will be “Navigating Gifted Journeys” with our Gifted Education Month (GEM) activities. We will again have 9 suggested activities for gifted students to participate in to let people in our state know what gifted students are doing in their classrooms. The 7 contest activity areas are: Creativity, Talent Showcase, Robotics, Multiculturalism, Research and Writing, Technology, and Science, Art, 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 encourage you to do as many of the activities as you desire and share them with your district, your communities, other school districts, stakeholders, and legislators by posting your gifted class’ GEMS activities on social media, or any other method to showcase your students’ talents. Our hope is for others to see that we are doing exciting things with our gifted students and to advocate for more funding.

Our GEM month will begin the second week of January to the second week of February (January 6 to February 13, 2026). We want to encourage you to start early in the school year and submit your best activity during the GEM month. Each school can submit ONLY ONE activity per school per grade level: Elementary/ Middle/ High School.

Your participation in these GEM activities is greatly needed to achieve our goal to make our state aware that gifted students are “Navigating Gifted Journeys".

AAGC social media addresses: Tag all of our social media accounts - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - @alabamagifted

Locate your legislators - https://alabamagifted.org/advocacy

Thank you,

AAGC GEM Committee

Last year's winning submissions are here.