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The Assessment and Counseling Clinic serves high-ability and twice-exceptional students.
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Learn more about your child's academic abilities with an above-level test.
Blast is an academic commuter program designed to challenge students in their areas of interest and strength.
BSI is a summer program for high-ability students.
The Bucksbaum Early Entrance Academy empowers high-achieving students with a passion for STEM and the Arts/Humanities to begin full-time on-campus study at the University of Iowa after their sophomore year of high school.
Invent Iowa is a comprehensive, statewide program developed to support educators in promoting the invention process as part of their regular kindergarten through high school curriculum.
The Iowa Online Advanced Placement Academy (IOAPA) provides online learning opportunities for high-ability students.
The Junior Science and Humanities Symposia (JSHS) Program promotes and publicly recognizes students for outstanding achievement in original research and experimentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at the high school level.
JSI is a summer program for high-ability students.
NSI is a summer program for high-ability students.
PRSI is a summer program for high-ability students.
The Belin-Blank Center Recognition Ceremony is held each year and is an opportunity to acknowledge those students who earned top scores in the Belin-Blank Exceptional Student Talent Search (BESTS), were selected to one of our scholarship programs, or received special recognition in a Belin-Blank Center program.
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards program is the nation’s longest-running, largest, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens.
SSTP is a summer program for high-ability students.
The STEM Excellence and Leadership program aims to empower academically able students from under-resourced rural schools.
The Weekend Institute for Gifted Students (WINGS) consists of half day enrichment opportunities for elementary and junior high students (grades 2-8) that take place on the University of Iowa campus.