Our program is designed to meet the advanced learning needs of gifted and talented students. Developing a class schedule to appropriately challenge a student and prepare the student for future educational goals requires careful planning. Esther Troyer, Gifted & Talented coordinator, is available to help students and/or parents create an academic pathway for the high school years.
Gifted and Talented students are also encouraged to take advantage of NKN's dual credit program and work to achieve a certificate or degree from Tillamook Bay Community College (TBCC) while in high school.
Students are encouraged to explore resources available from a variety of institutions to
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad is a contest for US and Canadian high school students. Contestants compete to solve compelling and creative puzzles in linguistics and computational linguistics. Requiring no previous knowledge of linguistics, languages or computing, these puzzles can be solved by analytic reasoning alone.
Each year, the American Institute of Physics sponsor a competition for high school students to represent the United States at the International Physics Olympiad Competition.
USA Biology Olympiad enriches the life science education of nearly 10,000 talented students annually.