DD8 has said she'd like to do EXPLORE this year. I'm looking for a talent search to do it through. "Our" talent search is Duke TIP, which accepts 4th graders, but only tests 5th graders.
I think our options for programs that let 4th graders do EXPLORE are BESTS, C-MITES, NUMATS, and CBK. Does anyone have experience with one or the other that would lead them to recommend that program particularly?
DD also wants to do SCAT this year, to be eligible for the CTY online classes, so if EXPLORE scores made her eligible for another program's online classes, that would be a plus. (She's not emotionally ready for a residential camp, and from what I've seen of the academic day camps, living out of a hotel for a week while she was in camp wouldn't be the ideal environment for camp success. We aren't geographically close to any of the programs.) She did an online class last summer through GLL (related to NUMATS); I think EXPLORE through them wouldn't make her eligible for additional distance learning opportunities.
