Our Mission

The Halbert and Nancy Robinson for Young Scholars is a leader and resource in gifted education for the state, nation and international community. We investigate, identify, and serve the needs of intellectually motivated and talented students (pre-kindergarten through college), and prepare them to be committed and engaged citizens and members of their community.

What We Do

We create and pursue new knowledge about the expressions and challenges of giftedness, and we actively share this knowledge through scholarly forums and community activities.

We identify gifted children and youth, and help direct them to appropriate educational placement from pre-school through post-secondary education.

We reach out to K-12 educators, post-secondary academics, and the larger community to promote a better understanding of the psychological, educational, sociological and pedagogical issues underlying the development of giftedness and talent.

We recruit the brightest young scholars in Washington State to the University of Washington through the Transition School/Early Entrance Program and the UW Academy for Young Scholars.

We promote students’ academic success through mentoring, advising, and support services during their pre-college and undergraduate years, and we conduct longitudinal follow-up studies to monitor and refine program activities.

Early Entrance Program (7th/8th grade)

UW Academy (10th grade): Application materials are available for download. Apply now!

Summer Program (5th-9th grades): Challenge Application begins Feb 1 at 8 AM; Stretch Application begins Feb 16 at 8 AM.

Transition School (7th and 8th grades): The 2010-11 application is now available for download.

Nov 9: UW Academy Info Session, 7pm, Johnson Hall, Room 102

Jan 4: Transition School Info Session, 7pm, Architecture Hall, Room 147

Jan 11: UW Academy Info Session, 7pm, Johnson Hall, Room 102

March 15: TS application due to Robinson Center

March 18: UW Academy application due to Robinson Center