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