HEROES is committed to promoting the educational, social and emotional development of exceptionally gifted students by:
  • Facilitating the creation of educational resources for exceptionally gifted students;
  • Informing parents, educators and exceptionally gifted students about appropriately challenging educational opportunities;
  • Reducing barriers that prevent exceptionally gifted students from accessing educational opportunities that can meet their needs;
  • Creating opportunities for exceptionally gifted students to interact socially.

Higher Education Resources & Opportunities for Exceptional Scholars

Welcome to the New HEROES Web-site

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 10:04pm — Rita Ostrager

Welcome to the New HEROES Web-site. Please look around and check out the new features including our calendar of events, programs, email newsletter sign-up and more. We hope that you will find that our new web-site provides you with better access to the information you need and makes it easier for you to participate in our programs.

In order to gain full access to the web-site you need to create a user account:

If you participated in a HEROES event or received the HEROES newsletter

  • Go to Request New Password
  • Enter your email address

Searching for Shakespeare

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 12:32pm — Rita Ostrager
Author: 
Rita Ostrager

I’ve never met the blogger who wrote Invisibly Gifted* but her words echo in my head, haunting and inspiring me:

If you’re a parent of a child like the profoundly gifted math whiz in the Jodie Foster film Little Man Tate, the world must seem full of options, not the least of which is that people tend to understand immediately that your child’s needs can’t be met in the usual way in the regular classroom, and that once-a-week pullouts where you sit in the GATE class and play logic games aren’t really going to cut it.

NASA 2010 SPHERES Zero-Robotics Challenge

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 4:58pm — Rita Ostrager

NASA and MIT are challenging high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station. The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES.

SPHERES are bowling-ball-sized spherical satellites used to test maneuvers for spacecraft performing autonomous rendezvous and docking. Three of these satellites fly inside the station's cabin. Each is self-contained with power, propulsion, computing and navigation equipment.

Young Scholar & Society

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 3:31pm — Rita Ostrager
$550.00

The Young Scholar and Society is an online reading and writing workshop with the intent of teaching young scholars the fundamentals of writing with an emphasis on learning the skills to interact with peers in online academic discussions. The objectives of this course are to encourage students to explore their areas of interest while developing the rhetorical skills necessary for their future academic and career endeavors.

$550.00

HEROES members meet with NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Alan Kogut

Mon, 08/16/2010 - 3:19pm — Rita Ostrager

Three HEROES members attended The Big Bang and the Search for a Theory of Everything at Monmouth University on Friday, August 6. The free public lecture began at 6:00 p.m. but the speaker, NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Alan Kogut generously agreed to come two hours early to meet with a couple of HEROES members and students from Monmouth County's High Tech High School.

Third Annual HEROES Conference

Tue, 08/10/2010 - 11:46am — Rita Ostrager

Rutgers University

Douglass Campus

January 15-16, 2011


Student Program

  • Two days of 3-hour labs and 1-hour lectures
  • Classes designed for students functioning at the high school or college level
  • Most programs will be limited to 12-15 students each
  • Includes continental breakfast, lunch and Saturday evening social program


Saturday Parent Program

  • Large group and breakout sessions on parenting exceptionally gifted children

Registration now open for Fall Programs

Tue, 08/10/2010 - 8:14am — Rita Ostrager

HEROES members may now register for fall programs using the new HEROES web-site, www.HEROESgifted.org. Members may choose from:

  • Rutgers Mentoring Program
  • ROGATE Independent Research Program
  • The Young Scholar and Society
  • Alternative Realities in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Magical Realism
  • Free Math Study Groups
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