Parents
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Why Consider Project MEGSSS for Your Child?
You know your child better than anyone. Is he/she in need of more on the mathematics front? Has she ever really experienced a challenge academically? Is it hard to find true academic peers for him to connect with?
Here's what some of our parents have to say:
Project MEGSSS offers a unique opportunity in the St. Louis region for talented students with extraordinary gifts in mathematics. MEGSSS offers both summer and after-school math programs, using a curriculum written specifically for mathematically gifted students. Schools and parents refer students who excel in math and whose abilities fall beyond the range of the usual classroom curricula. Middle school is a critical time in a young person’s education, and this curriculum is designed to accelerate and broaden a student’s mathematics experience, keeping them engaged in a subject in which they already excel.
Most middle schools cannot provide curricula to engage the minds of these bright children. Many of them, subjected to more math drill work and repetition in middle school, lose interest in mathematics just when they are ready for more engagement in the subject. Project MEGSSS is designed to identify and challenge students who have the potential to be leaders in the fields of science, engineering, mathematics and technology.
Project MEGSSS, Incorporated (Mathematics Education for Gifted Secondary School Students), a not-for-profit educational organization serving the St. Louis region, has provided gifted math programming to St. Louis students for 30 years. The offspring of a federally funded think tank charged with developing a math curriculum for gifted students that would put America on the forefront, the program lost federal funding in 1978. Parents of students enrolled in the program refused to let it die and established Project MEGSSS that year to continue the program. Project MEGSSS, Incorporated became a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation in 1980.
Parents of current students still manage MEGSSS by volunteer participation on the Board of Directors.