This study presents the results of the first Type III Enrichment (project-based) used with gifted students at a full-time talent program as well as its qualitative effects on teamwork abilities, communication, and independent learning. It is based on 12 months of small group project instruction to teach high school chemistry to students 10-12 years old in an advanced placement program. This program culminated in the public presentation of the project at a national Science Custer Fair. We described the team’s abilities, changes in learning strategies, and creativity within this independent but supervised project that involved learning complex biochemical concepts and public speaking skills.
Delanie Almazan Anaya
ana824@mail.harvard.edu
CEDAT Talent Attention Center / Harvard University
United States
Delanie Almazan is a full-time Professor for gifted students at CEDAT Mexico City. Previously she graduated from a Master in Museum Studies at Harvard University, Master in Education with major in Teaching Strategies, a Bachelor in Psychology, Bachelor in Philosophy, and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies. She has worked for over 5 years as promoter of culture, arts and creativity at schools, with focus on students with special needs. Her graduate thesis at Harvard focused on designing inclusive spaces and exhibitions for students with Attention Deficit Disorder at museums.
Tufic Habib Libien
javieresquivel1966@yahoo.com
Instituto Tecnologico y Estudios Superiores Monterrey
Mexico
Tufic Habib is a student of systems engineering. He participated as a speaker at the 21st. Conference of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children in Odense Denmark. with the theme "The Can Sat as a high technology resource for gifted children", which received special recognition by the Ambassador of Mexico in Denmark. Has participated for 4 years in the Program of Intensive Intellectual Empowerment, a differentiated model of education for the gifted with an effective duration of 2,083 hours per year. He was also named as one of the “30 genius children of Mexico” by Forbes in 2016.
Erick Reyes Labastida
chinzaiCEDAT@gmail.com
CMAS Intensive Gifted Program
Mexico
Erick Reyes is a gifted student who has presented his projects and works in Technology and Science areas in more than 10 conferences. He was detected as gifted at 4 years of age and became the youngest member of the team "Can Sat, in the space technology project from the Mexican Space Agency. He has also been an exhibitor for three years at the Mexican International Conference on Giftedness with topics such as "Alternative energies or fuels in vehicles" that consisted in an analysis of methods to reduce the negative consequences of pollution in the environment.
Eryx Elizarraras
sobredotado.123@gmail.com
CMAS Intensive Gifted Program
Mexico
Eryx Elizarraras is a gifted student who has presented in various forums and scientific conferences about the theory of Chaos. He has studied since 2014 in the Intensive Intellectual Enhancement Program, a differentiated model of education for the highly gifted in Mexico. In the 1st International Congress of Intellectual Giftedness, at Mexico City, he presented a study on the Theory of Chaos, as a criticism of the traditional method to show that there are systems with factors for which it is difficult to predict their behavior.
Octavio Lopez
luisesquivel@gmail.com
CMAS High School for Gifted
Mexico
Octavio Lopez is a high school student and member of the Robotics team at the Mexican Center for Gifted Students, where he has worked on engineering and programming projects. He participated in the academic exchange of gifted between Mexico and USA in March 2018.
Ian Toto
javierelm@live.com.mx
Instituto Tecnologico y Estudios Superiores Monterrey
Mexico
Student of Engineering, he graduated from the first classes of special educational attention for gifted in Mexico. He completed two academic summer stays at the Siglo XXI Medical Center in Mexico. He was a speaker at the 1st Mexican International Conference on Intellectual Giftedness, with the theme "Efficiency of Canine Smell in the Detection of Metabolic Changes in Humans”. Ian has worked mainly with biomedical projects, such as accelerated metabolic changes occur when a person suffers from cancer. As an example, he has studied the way in which breath samples allow canines to sniff and detect evidence of colorectal cancer.
Ricardo Valdez
psicopedagogia@cedat.com.mx
CMAS Intensive Gifted Program
Mexico
Ricardo was detected as gifted at 4 years of age and is currently a student of the Intensive Intellectual Enhancement Program, a differentiated model of education for the gifted in Mexico. He has presented at scientific conferences about topics on biochemistry, as his main topic of interest "Functioning of chemical elements in humans " where he made an extensive analysis of the 118 elements of the periodic table, of which more than 80 of them are related to the human body and everyday life. He explored those elements as well its applications and natural sources to obtain them.