Gifted Program Application Essay

Growing up in a household that surrounded me with math and science, my mom being a chemistry teacher and my dad being a field Growing up in a household that surrounded me with math and science, my mom being a chemistry teacher and my dad being a field engineer, I naturally take an interest in those particular subjects. I always tried to find ways that the material my class covered in one subject related to what I was learning in another. I went to a charter school for Kindergarten through sixth grade, which was first called Kennesaw Charter School, and later, Kennesaw Charter Science and Math Academy, or KCSMA for short. When I first started the science fair at school in the first grade, I would work on my project for days on end and entered the fair every year it was available to me. When I didn’t
I was one of the first students at my school to enter this program, and my class started with only three students between two grades. In the gifted program, commonly called “Quest,” I normally finished the logic puzzles the teachers gave in about half the time as the other students. In Quest, I found that I liked using multiple methods to solve the same problem, as it proved highly beneficial to me. I learned how to use my first CAD program in Quest when my teachers conducted a unit on 3d design, where I learned to use the program Google Sketchup®. I joined the robotics team in fourth grade, and there found a new way to challenge my creativity, technological skills, and logical reasoning. I learned how to do basic programming on the team, using the “LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT” programming system on the computer. I later learned to use the similar system used to program “LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Ev3.” This is now my fifth consecutive year on a robotics team, and I am now the co-captain of the team at Simpson Middle