Aptos Junior High School

Please spread the word!  Students (all ages) from throughout the region (of Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Alameda, and Monterey Counties) are invited to attend the GATE Student-to-Student Conference being held at UCSC on May 8, 2010.

This event is FREE and a bus will take parents and students from Watsonville to UCSC.

Three Ways to Participate:

1. Students can present a workshop of their choice, and also attend other students’ workshops. Workshops can be about almost anything!
2. Students can attend the conference without presenting, and just enjoy other students’ workshops.
3. Parents/Guardians can attend the parent workshops, or attend the student workshops. (Parents: if your child is presenting, you will   also need to be in the classroom while they present their workshop.)

Much like at an adult conference, students who attend will receive a program that lists the various 25 minute presentations or workshops, and they will get to choose to attend up to four sessions.

We hope to get as many PVUSD students as possible to attend. Attached is an invitation for you to offer to those students who are “resident experts” in a particular topic, or who are passionate about a hobby or topic they have learned about inside or outside of school. Please download it, fill it out and give to students! This is a wonderful opportunity for students to become exposed to each other’s enthusiasm for learning. Last year the conference was for secondary students. This year all students are invited to participate.

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 25 minute presentations or workshops. Several parent workshops will be offered as well, but the emphasis is on students.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

1:00 – 5:00 PM

On the beautiful

UC Santa Cruz campus

Some of last year’s sessions:

• • How I Started My Chemistry Card Company
• • The Chosen Ones: How to Write a Book
• • Dance with Masti/Fun
• • An Edible Guide to the History of Food
• • How to Build a Mac OS X Program
• • Environment and Fun
• • The Power of Poetry

The list of possibilities is endless. Share

your interests, work or hobby.

Go to www.giftedcalifornia.org for more information and the

registration form. You must register to present by

April 1. You must register to attend by April 30.

Students of all ages–

You are invited to

attend a conference

by and for students.

YOU PRESENT!

YOU CHOOSE!

YOU LEARN!

Present your talents and

interests to other

students.

You do not need to be a

presenter to attend

For more information:

Call Pajaro Valley USD GATE Services

831-786-2144

SPONSORED BY THE

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION

FOR THE GIFTED – SANTA

LUCIA REGION AND

MERRILL COLLEGE, UC SANTA CRUZ udent Conference

e Conference!

Parent Education

Sessions also

Offered!

Lyn Olson

PVUSD GATE Coordinator

831-786-2144

fax 831-786-1317

lyn_olson@pvusd.net Student to st conf flyer