Duke TIP Ceremony To Honor
Seventh-Graders At WKU

Bowling Green, Ky. -For the 20th year at Western Kentucky University, gifted seventh-graders will be honored in the Kentucky Recognition Ceremony of Duke University's Talent Identification Program.

The Kentucky Department of Education and the Center for Gifted Studies will celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of exceptional seventh-graders at 2 p.m. Friday (May 31) at the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center amphitheater on the WKU campus.

House Speaker Jody Richards, sponsor of key legislative initiatives that established and promoted gifted education in Kentucky, will be the keynote speaker.

Of the 3,642 Kentucky students who took either the SAT or ACT exam, 1,062 qualified for the Kentucky Recognition Ceremony, which honors students who scored as well or better than the average college-bound high school senior on one section of either test.

Eighty-one Kentucky students qualified for the Grand Recognition Ceremony, which honors those earning a math or verbal score on the SAT or ACT higher than 90 percent of college-bound high school seniors.

Since 1980, more than a million students have taken part in a TIP program. More than 76,000 students participated in the 2001-2002 Talent Search.

For information, contact The Center for Gifted Studies at (270) 745-6323 or gifted@wku.edu.

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