46th Annual CAGT
Conference 2024
Purpose & Passion
Our 46th Annual CAGT Conference 2024, Purpose & Passion, has come to an end! It was a record breaking year in so many ways: Attendence – 904; Exhibitors and sponsors – 40; Creativity Night – 165; Leadership Awards Evening – largest crowd ever; and so much more! We hope those of you who joined us experienced an incredible event filled with educators, administrators, mental health personnel, parents and students all learning, networking, collaborating and having tons of fun over two amazing days! The synergy was extraordinary!
All of our conference and conference related events for the 2025 Conference, Empowering Change, we begin rolling out in March. To get information and to register for any of our 47th Annual Conference events, please check back next spring to find out information and to register. We hope to see you at the Embassy Suites, Loveland, Oct. 19th-21st.
*Scroll down to see the 2024 Award Winners, Art Contest, Conference photos and presenter resources.
CONFERENCE EVENTS:
Conference Registration – Closed
Youth Impact Awards – Closed
Call for Proposals – Closed
Leadership Awards – Closed
Conference Scholarships – Closed
Exhibitors and Sponsorships – Closed
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Join us for our 47th Annual Conference
Empowering Change
Oct. 19th-21st, 2025!
2024 Call for Proposals
The window for submitting presentation proposals for CAGT’s 2024 Annual Conference Purpose & Passion is now closed! Please consider sharing your knowledge and expertise about our gifted children and their unique needs next year at our 2025 conference, Empowering Change. Our professional conference offers over 80 presentations from experts in the field of gifted education and has an annual attendance of over 800 educators, administrators, parents and community members. Call for proposals for the 2025 conference will open next March, so mark your calendars to check the website for more information and submit your ideas for sessions to share with our gifted community.
2024 CAGT Leadership Awards
The time period for submitting nominations for the 2024 CAGT Leadership Awards is now closed. We thank you for nominating many incredible educators, administrators, parents, advocates and community members from your corner of Colorado who are doing amazing things for gifted children and their education. Please consider nominating deserving individuals for the 2025 Leadership Awards for next year’s conference in the following categories: George T. Betts Inspiration Award, Jacquelin Medina Visionary Leadership Award, Parent of the Year, Educator of the Year, Administrator of the Year, Special Advocate of the Year, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. We can’t wait to honor outstanding individuals from our gifted community at CAGT’s 47th Annual Conference again next fall. Check back in March for information and to submit your nominations.
CAGT Conference Scholarship Applications
This year’s CAGT Scholarships to attend the 2024 annual conference Purpose and Passion are now closed. Please check back in March for information to take advantage of the many scholarships to attend next year’s conference and learn from local, national and international experts from the field of gifted education. We will be offering four scholarships to attend conference for educators, administrators and mental health providers interested in learning how to better their pedagogy to support the needs of gifted students and programming at their schools. In addition to our Colorado Scholars and Leaders in Action scholarships, we offer scholarships to help send our teachers of color and our mental health support personnel to conference. Don’t miss these opportunities to attend the 2025 conference! Check back in March for more information and to apply.
Youth Impact Award Nominations
The 2024 Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented (CAGT) Youth Impact Awards are now closed. Each year these awards are granted to children ages 7-18, who have made a positive, meaningful, and beneficial impact on others in their classroom, school and/or community. CAGT chooses four children from the state of Colorado who will be named CAGT Youth Impact Award Students: one student for the Junior Division (ages 7-9), one student for the Senior Division (ages 10-12), and two students for the Masters Division (ages 13-18). All four students who are selected receive a CAGT Certificate of Excellence and a cash reward. Please consider nominating students who you feel are deserving of this award for our 2025 Youth Impact Award next year. Nominations will open March of 2025
Exhibitors and Sponsorships
Exhibitors and Sponsors – Come join us next year for our 47th Annual Conference, Empowering Change. We would love to have you exhibit and/or be a sponsor at our 2025 conference at the Embassy Suites in Loveland, October 19-21st as it is your support that helps make our conference a success! Information for both exhibiting and sponsoring will be available next March.
We hope you join us next October!
Family Institute
CAGT’s new and refreshed Family Institute, co-hosted by our affiliates Adams12 Parent Group and BVGT, was a huge success! Our keynote speaker, Emily Kircher-Morris, gave a wonderful presentation to over 100 attendees. We hope to bring a Family Institute to a another corner of Colorado in the near future. We will send out information on our Facebook page and through emails to our membership when we determine when our next Family Institute will be.
The 2024 CAGT Leadership and Youth Impact Award Winners!
Leadership Award Winners
George T. Betts Inspirational Award:
Terry Bradley (Boulder)
Jacquelin Medina Visionary Leadership Award:
Lisa Rogers (District 8 – Colorado Springs)
Janet Peasley (Steamboat Springs)
Lifetime Achievement:
Gail Stine (Denver)
Special Advocate Award:
Shyla Christiansen (Canyon City)
Administrator of the Year:
Pattie Vail (Harrison School District-Colorado Springs)
Educator of the Year:
Kaileigh Bonner (Burlington)
Parent of the Year:
Marion Clawson (Colorado Springs)
Youth Impact Award Winners
Senior Division
Anirudh Rao
STEM School – Highlands Ranch
Masters Division:
Amara Fantl
Venture Academy of Leadership and Entrepreneurship – Douglas County
Mateo Beauvineau
Fairview High School – Boulder
CAGT’s 6th Annual Art Contest Winners!
CAGT would like to congratulate our 2024 Art Contest Winners
Elementary K-2 Division
1st Place – Celdiano Travis, 2nd Grade
“Riding Bluebird”
2nd Place – Madalyn Bryant, 2nd Grade
“Spinning”
3rd Place – Thea Light, 1st Grade
“Patchworks of Beauty”
Elementary 3-5 Division
1st Place – Evelyn Hughes, 5th grade
“Tigers”
2nd Place – Anika Kiran, 4th grade
3rd Place – Aoife Beal, 5th grade
“Push and Pull”
Middle School Division
1st Place – Danny Henes, 6th grade
“I Am Colorado History”
2nd Place – Ayden Davis, 8th grade
“Universe”
3rd Place – Sophia Rodriguez, 7th grade
High School Division
1st Place – Sophie Zhou, 11th grade
“The Burnout”
2nd Place – Jenna Rahal, 12th grade
“Planty”
3rd Place – Olivia Ekstrom, 10th grade
Congratulations to all of our winners and every student who submitted their interpretation of our conference theme this year – Purpose & Passion. The artwork was remarkable and we hope to see even more incredible entries at our next conference!
Take a peek at all of the artwork from this year’s contest on our Virtual Showcase.