Statement Of Purpose: My Quest Pullout Program During Elementary School

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One academic course that has helped me throughout my middle school term was when I took part in Quest Pullout Program during elementary school. Quest is a curriculum that allows gifted students to do projects that focus on literacy and math using higher level thinking skills, in-depth learning, collaboration, cooperation and presentation skills. Some parts include us doing an annual research project, and during the year we work on puzzles and projects that involve thinking outside of the box.
Quest is a program that I deeply loved and it has meant a lot to me since this was one course that kept me challenged during elementary school. One of my favorite task was the annual research project. We had to select one topic and frame 10 questions

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