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Is anyone located in North Florida and have any information about groups etc in the area?

Where in North Florida?

It looks like we are relocating to the Orlando area. Does anyone have information about elementary schools in this area?

Sorry, no, we are further North. There might be a yahoo group dedicated to that area, check terms like "gifted" and "orlando" for the groups. You can also check the FLAG people, (Florida Assoc for the Gifted).

Gifted Conference in Orlando, FL in July
http://www.sengifted.org/conference_about.shtml

Check out Orlando schools here,
https://www.ocps.net/Pages/default.aspx

I am 45min West of Orlando

Thanks,
I've tried FLAG and gotten the person in Orange county's contact info, but she's on vacation for the next month so she's not very helpful right now.
I also checked out the Orlando schools' page, and went to a few of the schools' webpages from that link, but none of them says much of anything on their site about gt.

Floridama I sent you a PM

I finally saw it. I'm a little slow

What about Mensa? They have some really active chapters and get togethers for kids, maybe see if they have an active chapter there. It is like $25 to apply and about $50 for a year's membership.

The children's organzier for the Mensa group is also involved in, I think, Seminole County schools (just north of Orlando). She did a great job on the children's program for the SENG conference last weekend.

I am in the northeast Florida area and am learning my way around some of the enrichment resources available in this area. There is a Saturday program during the school year associated with Stetson University in DeLand called Hatterdays - they also have some weeklong summer programs (day, not residential) at several locations throughout the state. We have started to make some contacts there, although it is something of a haul for us. The Gainesville area may also have something, but we haven't dug too deeply there yet.

Thanks for the advice so far. We have not thought about Mensa, but will when we get to Florida. (Which will be next week.)
Well, DH finally got a live person at Orange County Public Schools. Inf act, he got the gifted admin. there (or at least one of them). He was asking about a magnet program that we had heard about for kids with an IQ over 140, (which DD has). We got the typical response "all of the schools in the western area of the county have great gifted programs, just find a place to live and you'll be able to work with the school whose district you're in." She then went on to say that test scores were not important for entry into the magnet program. All that was required was a letter from the teacher stating that the child's needs were not being met by differentiation in the regular classroom. She said she couldn't recommend a school to us and she knows it didn't sound like an answer, but that was all she could tell us.
I also finally got an answer to an email I had sent to one of the elementary schools in the area, asking about single subject acceleration, and was told that this isn't done because there are many students in the school with similar talents to DD!! How many kids can there be in a school with an IQ over 140? I am beginning to think we are going to be in for a long battle to find a good program.