GATE Student-to-Student Conference!

Saturday, April 25, 2009 1–5 pm
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, CA

Sponsored by the California Association for the Gifted (Santa Lucia Region) and the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District

Please spread the word! GATE students (grades 6–12) from throughout the region (of Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Alameda, and Monterey Counties) are invited to attend an April, 2009 conference hosted at Mountain View High School.

Read the flier, in English or en español

At the four-hour conference, GATE students will offer a broad variety of workshops and presentations to other GATE students.

This free event will be held on the Mountain View High School campus. Much like an adult conference, students who attend will receive a program that lists the various half hour presentations or workshops, and they will get to choose to attend up to six sessions.

Parents must be present in the classroom while own their sons and daughters are presenting. Students need not agree to present at the conference in order to attend any of the thirty minute presentations or workshops.

We will need more than twenty GATE parents and CAG members to serve as volunteers, as this event will be the size of a major regional speech tournament, which takes a significant number of adults to run it. If you might be willing to volunteer, please contact steven (dot) kahl (at) mvla (dot) net. Please contact Steve Kahl if you have any questions at the above email address or at 408-458-0144.

Here are some of the many types of presentations and workshops and topics of interest that students might consider offering to other students:

• presentation on a topic studied outside of school
• presentation on a topic studied in school
• book talks
• author talks
• showing of a film directed by a student
• demonstration Lincoln Douglas debate
• demonstration Oxford debate
• demonstration speech: original
• demonstration speech: interpretation of an established text
• mock trial demonstration/simulation
• student congress demonstration/simulation
• leading a discussion on a topic of interest
• explaining a difficult concept in a way that most people can understand
• explaining how unfinished projects can converge to synthesize a powerful creation
• reading original fiction
• reading original poetry
• reading an original manuscript
• performing a dance
• showcasing original art
• presenting an original comedy routine
• presenting an original instructional game
• teaching a skill
• introduction to an organization the student wants to promote
• leading a critical session on a work of art
• analyzing a piece of abstract art
• presentation on health and wellness: exercise, diet, sleep
• simulation on effective communication in particular contexts
• activities to promote self-knowledge
• meditation instruction
• identification of a problem and presentation of various approaches to solving it
• examining why gifted and talented role models sometimes go bad
• examining a world issue and the various points of view on that issue
• presentation of the work of students from Freestyle High School
• comic book presentations
• puppet shows
• civil rights topics
• how to be creative
• where films get science wrong
• introduction to Pilates
• introduction to Yoga
• how to run your own legal business
• how to persevere
• how to manage stress
• what service learning taught me
• science fiction writing
• designing a galaxy
• building robots
• chaos theory
• presentations on various sports
• seeing eye dog training
• presentation on a favorite philosopher
• how to invent something
• how to patent something
• how to publish
• women in politics
• computer programming
• friend-making for gifted kids
• group dynamics
• presentation on the bystander effect
• emotional literacy development
• intuition development
• creativity development
• the fixed mind-set vs. the growth mind-set (Dweck)
• and tons of other potential topics and areas of interest…

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