Have you looked to see if there are any Mathcounts teams or Math Circles in your area? Here’s another option, too, that one of my families passed along as a referral: live.poshenloh.com.

I also highly recommend following @amightygirl on Facebook. They post female-empowering and other fabulous book lists every day. Build Your Library also has excellent suggestions that are aligned to subjects and grade levels. We’ve found some excellent recommendations there.

Dancemat typing is a cute free program. Kids love the British humor! 🙂.https://www.dancemattypingguide.com/dance-mat-typing-level-1/

Congratulations on your learner becoming a finalist! I see several finalists in the DYS group, and it’s a huge honor for all! The interview will also be invaluable experience going forward! ☀️☀️☀️

Yes, it is perfectly acceptable to give it that extra weight. Just copy the cover and table of contents for your file in case your learner needs it for future placement. Colleges typically reweight the gpa anyhow, so you really can’t go wrong as long as you have a legitimate explanation.

Hi! We’re a DYS family, and you can have someone else fill out the app. It’s been many years, but I know we picked responders who knew our kids’ specific strengths and unique interests far better than their classroom teachers. Just send an email, though, if you have specific questions. It’s an amazing community!

Hi! While a lot of kiddos start with coding, there are also lots of other avenues. My 14yo is passionate about cyber security but the boy lukewarm on coding. His mentor (a PhD student) assured him he doesn’t need to become a coder to go into cyber security, so instead he has learnt a lot on the free open source Linux boards, then in “studying” via Hack the Box. Now, he’s spending the summer self-studying for a CompTIA cyber security exam. We also have several other AL learners who are interested in Ali/machine learning working with a mentor who has his PhD in ML. They engage in really cool projects that the mentor just facilitates with the kids. So many options!

Hi All! ‘Just thought I’d quickly share our first radical acceleration success, since I’ll soon have a college junior. 😍 My 17yo (summer birthday) was double grade accelerated in his elementary years, after we had the same debates that many families are now trying to figure out. After giving public and GATE magnets a try, we homeschooled him with a public charter until the midst of 10th grade when he suddenly wanted to give traditional high school a try. It ended up surprisingly being socially as well as academically successful. He took mostly AP classes for the academics, connecting with a huge team of great teens. He was as tall as most of his age peers by then (at 13) and very witty. It didn’t hurt that he was an attractive kid, so got invited to all the parties the girls hosted. Lol While academics were easy, he had to work extra hard to play sports with the older teens, but did make his high school baseball team and fit in seamlessly. He graduated at 15 with a year of AP credit. We had decided long ago that he would go to local community college for his first two years so he could continue to live at home- far more for me than for him. Since he graduated during the 2020 COVID chaos, this ended up working out perfectly. We gave him nearly complete independence during these two years, and he not only kept his 4.0 while working 25 hours a week, but also completely applied to university on his own. His “dream school” has been UC Santa Barbara, and he is transferring in as a Junior this fall. He’ll be living in an apartment a block from the beach with three of his high school friends (from those AP classes), moving in the day after his 18th birthday. While he was ready at 15/16 as well, he himself says he feels much more ready to live in his own now, so that part of the timing also worked out. Fwiw, He’s a political science-economics double major, applying to law school next year. 🙂 I am also a gifted consultant, so often see acceleration success experiences. My colleague’s children were also radically accelerated. One just graduated with her Marine Science degree, and the other is at an elite performing school. The best advice I can give is to take one year at a time. There are so many pathways to success, and finding their ideal social-emotional fit now will enable the other building blocks to fall into place. All of us veteran patents have been off when we tried to predict what future years works look like, but all the accelerated learners have graduated at the time best for them. 💜. HTH!

It’s a great resource for our community! Thanks for sharing!