Welcome back to school everyone!
Here’s the latest edition of the Gifted Youth Corner:
- Reel Reads
- Make new friends at SFRM’s Regional Gathering
- For the Grown-ups: GY Parents Special Interest Group
REEL READS
I’m excited to share a monthly GY Zoom series called Reel Reads where we discuss popular books and compare them to their TV show/movie adaptations. Usually books are better than the movies, but sometimes a movie can bring a book to life!! For example, are you bummed they removed your favorite part or do you think they got the casting just right? Let’s talk about it! 🙂
This event is open to all gifted youth members and their parents or guardians of American Mensa and is sponsored by San Francisco Regional Mensa’s Gifted Youth Program.
This month’s Reel Read:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Sep 21, 2024 09:30 AM Pacific Time
Registration link: Email the GYC
MAKE NEW FRIENDS AT SFRM’S REGIONAL GATHERING
Every year, SFRM hosts a Regional Gathering (RG) in a different location around our area where members and their friends get together for a weekend of activities, speakers, workshops, games, and lots of opportunities to meet new people and make new friends. This year, our RG is in San Rafael in Marin County on November 22-24 and it’ll be the first time we’ll have something for gifted youth!
All gifted youth activities will take place on Saturday, November 23rd so if you can’t stay the entire weekend, just stop by for one day. It’d be so neat to meet you in real life!
One of the RG highlights is the Gifted Youth Homeroom that’s a space dedicated for kids to hang out. Only youth and their grown-ups are allowed in this room and we’ll have members of our Gifted Youth Program there at all times to make sure you’re having a blast! The homeroom is open to all youth attendees – the more the merrier!
Other highlights of the weekend include:
- FREE testing for GY parents! Share Mensa with your gifted child. Email testing@sfmensa.org for more information and mention that I told you.
- Playtest an RPG game where YOU are the superhero!
- GY Parent presentations
- Crucial Conversations with Your Gifted Teen
- Light their Fire: The Brilliance of 2E/IG kids
- …and more!
- GY-friendly presentations
- Gonzo Trivia!
- Making A Game: The Importance of Creativity
- Mentally Multiply to 10,000 and Beyond!
- …and more!
Find out more about SFRM’s Regional Gathering here or apply to be a speaker here. I’d love to see a gifted youth present!!!
For the Grown-ups:
GY PARENTS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
I know it’s been a challenge for GY parents and guardians to find ways to connect with each other and even more complicated when your local group doesn’t have its own GYC.
For this reason, I’m excited to announce that I am creating a National GY parents Special Interest Group (SIG) for all GY parents within American Mensa to connect with one another. Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are organized around particular topics or interests and you can see American Mensa’s full list of SIGs here: https://www.us.mensa.org/connect/sigs
I understand that everyone has their preferred communication platform and I won’t be able to please everyone, but I have to think of what is best for the organizers for now which means that the SIG will be on Facebook.
Request to join the Gifted Youth Parents SIG on Facebook. To become nationally recognized, we need to have at least 10 members before I can apply. Hope to see you there!
That’s all for now. Hope to see you at Reel Reads in September and at SFRM’s RG in November!
REGION 8 GIFTED YOUTH COORDINATORS 