*Referrals for the 2025-2026 school year are now closed. Parents who referred will be notified by April 1, 2025 if their child moves to testing. Results will be sent home before the last day of school. The next opportunity to refer a student for the GT/QUEST Program will be next school year for screening and testing in the Spring of 2026 for the 2026-2027 school year. Referrals will be open until March 1st and parents/gaurdians will be notified by April 1st if further testing is needed. Results of any testing will be shared the last week of the school year in May.Â
Each student will need a composition book and a plastic folder.
First: Orange
Second: Yellow
Third: Green
Fourth: Blue
Fifth: Purple
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QUEST...Quality Utilization and Enrichment of Student Talents
In QUEST we use creative and critical thinking skills to solve problems that are exciting, challenging, and fun. This exploration will allow students to apply these skills to everyday life.
quest: (n) the act of seeking or pursuing something; a search
The QUEST program has two main purposes: 1) to foster the gifts and talents of students who excel or show potential to excel in creative and productive thinking and in general intellectual ability through focused and differentiated learning experiences 2) to impact the capacity of all students to apply creative and critical thinking skills to their learning experiences.
What is creative thinking?
Creative thinking involves creating something new or original. It involves the skills of flexibility, originality, fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery, and relationships. The aim of creative thinking is to stimulate curiosity and promote divergence.
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing.
Enrichment through QUEST...
The QUEST program is setup as an enrichment to learning. In the QUEST classroom, students learn and use tools that help them research ideas and topics. They will explore the Creative Thinking skills of Fluency, Flexibility, Orginality, and Elaboration in their projects. They will also learn how to use the Critical Thinking skills from Bloom's Taxonomy in their daily life.
QUEST is a challenging, interdisciplinary, project-based program that requires high intellectual ability (95%ile or above) for successful participation. The QUEST program does not accelerate a particular content area but does expand, extend and enrich the content areas through interdisciplinary projects. While QUEST students' inventions and products may not look conventional to outsiders, they reflect in-depth, complex thinking and creative problem solving, and there is no limit to what those busy brains can do!