The Center serves three populations: students who are gifted and talented, their parents and their teachers.  We provide year round programming for gifted and talented young people, and we are passionate about advocating and providing services for gifted young people and their parents and teachers.  We need volunteers.  Just a little of your time and talent could make a huge difference in the life of a gifted child. 

If you are interested in volunteering, please email Harper Lee at harper.lee@wku.edu for more information.

In the past, volunteers at The Center have:
    •Assisted teachers in classes 
    •Assisted in major mailings (sorting, stuffing envelopes, labeling)
    •Assisted at major events (planning, organizing, hospitality, etc.)
    •Written for our publication
    •Run errands
    •Done clerical work (filing, copying, answering phones)
    •Taken pictures
    •Written grants
    •Helped get the word out and increase awareness of The Center

During the summer, gifted and talented middle and high schoolers from all across Kentucky, the nation and abroad come to our Summer Camp for Academically Talented Middle School Students and to our Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth.  These students choose to spend their summers learning and enjoying the company of other young people who love learning.  During the school year, The Center offers two sessions of our Super Saturdays program.  Elementary and middle school students spend four Saturdays delving into a topic they love.  And while these young people are building bridges, painting, acting or studying a language on Saturday morning—The Center is conducting special seminars for their parents to help them gain insight into raising a gifted child. 

Also, throughout the summer and school year, The Center offers many professional opportunities for teachers.  During the summer, advanced placement teachers are invited to take part in our Advanced Placement Summer Institute.  For middle and high school teachers, The Center offers The Vertical Team Institute designed to help teachers build capacity for academic excellence in middle and high school.  The Center also hosts the Berta Series for Excellence in Education, a free, two-day workshop for parents and teachers on gifted education.  In the winter, The Center offers a Leadership Institute which focuses on practical strategies for developing leadership potential in young people.  And in the spring, parents, teachers and students are invited to travel to Europe with The Center for spring break.  The Center is self-supporting and therefore must find the time for fundraising and grant writing.  The Center also produces a magazine, The Challenge, twice a year and maintains a website.
   
We need volunteers to make all of this happen!  Every photo, every grant, every phone call, every errand, every envelope helps improve the lives and educations of gifted children in Kentucky.  We are always so excited and thankful to have extra hands and minds helping us help gifted students.  If you would like to volunteer at The Center—please let us know!