Top talent wanted for Children’s University

The term ‘young talent’ gets a new meaning: the Children’s University of Tilburg University will add education for gifted children at primary school to its activities, under the title of the Wetenschapsknooppunt (Science Junction).

On April 20 the new program will start with a preliminary round of the national Top test at Tilburg University, in which fifty primary school students will take part. The winner receives a real scholarship. Rector Philip Eijlander will open the Science Junction by building a huge junction with the children attending the test. The day ends with a campus tour and a children’s lecture by philosopher Herman de Regt.

The Children’s University aims to work together with regional schools to develop curriculums and teaching materials for more gifted primary school students from groups 7 and 8 (age 10 to 12). The goal: making knowledge available to primary school students, and to show how much fun science is.

The Wetenschapsknooppunt will offer new series of lectures specially for children in the highest groups of primary school. In addition, new textbooks in the current series of the Children’s University, and courses in business and philosophy will be developed for children who are ‘brilliant’ at primary school. [TvN/transl. YV]

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