Kentucky's Brightest Students
To Be Honored At WKU
May 25, 2004
Bowling Green, Ky. - Kentucky's brightest seventh-graders will be recognized Friday at Western Kentucky University in the Kentucky Recognition Ceremony for the 24th Annual Talent Identification Program (TIP).
TIP, offered through Duke University, is sponsoring a series of recognition ceremonies to honor some of the most talented seventh-graders in the United States. Kentucky students invited to the Duke TIP ceremonies earned scores that would be the envy of many graduating seniors and while only in the seventh grade.
The Kentucky ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. Friday at WKU's Diddle Arena. Kentucky Secretary of Education Virginia Fox will speak at the ceremony.
The Talent Search is the largest program of its kind in the nation, representing participation from 6,150 junior high and middle schools in the Duke TIP 16-state region. More than one million students have completed the Talent Search since 1980.
The Talent Search identifies academically talented seventh-graders based on standardized test scores achieved while attending elementary or middle school. Candidates are identified and invited to complete either the SAT I: Reasoning Test or the ACT Assessment college entrance examination. Duke TIP then provides the participants with comparative information concerning their academic abilities and resources for unique educational opportunities.
Duke TIP sponsors both State Recognition Ceremonies and a Grand Recognition Ceremony for the very highest scoring students. Students invited to the Grand Recognition
Ceremony earned a math or verbal score on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) or the American College Testing Assessment (ACT) higher than 90 percent of college-bound high school seniors as part of TIP's 24th annual Talent Search. Of the 78,881 students who participated in the 2003-2004 Talent Search, fewer than 2,000 Americans met the criteria. Kentuckians numbered 66.
Out of 3,872 Kentucky students who took the tests, 1,259 of them were invited to the Kentucky Recognition Ceremony to be held at WKU. The Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth (VAMPY) is hosting the State Recognition Ceremony. VAMPY, sponsored by The Center for Gifted Studies at Western, was Duke's first cooperative summer program more than 20 years ago.
For more information, contact The Center for Gifted Studies at (270) 745-6323. Parents and students interested in Duke TIP's Talent Search should contact the Duke University TIP office at (919) 684-3847 or visit www.tip.duke.edu.
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