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The Independent Learners’ Program (ILP) is a program for gifted students who, at an earlier age than their peers, thrive on the challenge of using their considerable wealth of knowledge to learn new and exciting concepts.  Using the state required science curriculum as a base, subject instruction goes over and above the information covered in the regular classroom.  Students exercise their problem solving and thinking skills when they are given scenarios in which they must apply the new knowledge that they are learning or have learned.  Study skills for gifted students are not usually required for success in the regular classroom, but in the ILP Program, students learn various methods of study and how to use those skills to apply novel information to every day tasks.  Noted students will receive additional assistance in learning to assimilate information that rocks their equilibrium. 

Hands-on activities demonstrate newly learned information and supply an experience to which students achieve understanding.  Projects might include designing an atom for a new element, or ally and visually presenting a “newly discovered” ocean creature, making blood, or creating a travel brochure that highlights the exciting adventures one could have in a distant galaxy.