Last week was the annual Alabama Association for Gifted Children conference at the McWane Science Center where gifted education specialists, advocates, parents, and administrators gathered from all over the state to learn from one another and from nationally renowned experts in gifted education. This year's theme "Igniting Gifted Potential" captured the many talents of our state's educators and students. This is the 2nd year in a row that BCS has had a winner in the annual video contest. Kimberly Green's GATE class at Arrington Middle School won 1st Place in the video contest for 6th-8th grade students with a video highlighting their class. The class won a video camera that they can create more videos with, and the students were already coming up with ideas for the next video. In addition to the student award, Principal Anthony Moss won the Administrator of the Year award. It was a great day for Arrington Middle School and the GATE program! In addition to our talented video students, Carver High School's quintet led by Laura Walters accompanied the conference at lunch on Thursday. Many conference participants remarked on what a nice addition the music was to the lunch hour. With all of the new learning this week we are excited to bring new ideas to GATE classrooms and schools across the district, continue to ignite the potential students across Birmingham City Schools! Thank you to all of those involved in making the 2015 AAGC conference one of the best yet! *Photos courtesy of Butch Oglesby at Blue Moon Studios
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