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Awards & Scholarships

Each year OAGCT provides a number of awards and scholarships. The awards and scholarships are listed below with links to the application.

• The OAGCT Outstanding Service Award is presented in recognition of service to Oklahoma’s gifted and talented students. Anyone who is actively involved in gifted and talented education is eligible to receive this award. This includes parents, teachers, consultants, administrators, or others who are involved in a personal effort to help gifted and talented students in Oklahoma. Anyone may make a nomination for the award. Use this form for nominations. Please feel free to nominate any qualified person who previously has not been selected. Since only one award is given each year, many exceptional nominees have not been recognized. Application due Dec. 15th each year.
• The OAGCT Cheryl Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is a $500 grant awarded to educators for financing advanced education, a research project, or training in gifted and talented education. Application due Dec. 15th each year.
• The Gifted Oklahomans Foundation and Oklahoma Association of the Gifted, Creative & Talented Application is a scholarship for teachers of gifted students to pursue college course work or a master’s degree in the field of gifted education.  The scholarship is provided with the stipulation the course work is completed with a C or above, the recipient is willing to turn in a copy of the grade or a leter from the professor with a grade, and the teacher is working or planning to work in an Oklahoma school in gifted education.  Then scholarship money will be provided in a timely manner.  Applications taken throughout the year.
• The NAGC Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award, a $500 U.S. Savings Bond, is designed to recognize excellence in young children and is awarded to one student in each state who is between grades 3 and 6 and who has distinguished him or herself in academics, leadership, or the arts by the National Association of Gifted Children. Application due Dec. 15th each year. The national award program was established through funds provided by Maggie and Reg Green to honor the memory of their seven-year-old son Nicholas, who was killed in a drive-by shooting while visiting Italy in 1995. The Greens feel it is important to recognize gifts and talents in children who are now at the age that Nicholas was when he died.

• The Beverly Riggs Camp Scholarship pays up to $500 toward summer camp attendance for students who are gifted. The camp must be in the gifted areas of academic or artistic enrichment and/or acceleration. Application due by February 15th of each year.

• The Advocacy Award is presented in recognition of public support for Oklahoma’s gifted and talented students to the Legislature, colleges and universities or local school districts, and/or the Oklahoma State Board of Regents. Anyone who is actively involved in a personal effort to improve gifted and talented education is eligible to receive this award.