Press Release For Immediate Release January 21, 2009	Media Contact: Mike Liberty Summer Institute for the Gifted River Plaza, 9 West Broad St. Stamford, CT 06902-3788 (203) 399-5187 mliberty@giftedstudy.com www.giftedstudy.com

SIG Open House at Out-of-Door Academy, January 31

SARASOTA, FL – On Saturday, January 31, 2009, the Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) will hold an open house for its newest day program at the Out-of-Door Academy.

Parents of gifted and talented students in Kindergarten through grade 6 are invited to attend the open house for the new day program that runs from June 15 through July 3.

SIG’s open house is designed to inform parents about program details, academic curriculum, and special program information. The event is hosted by members of the SIG staff and begins at 10:00 am with registration and refreshments at 9:30 am. The schedule includes a presentation, question-and-answer session, and tour of the Sarasota campus.

Created and offered by the Summer Institute for the Gifted for the first time in 2009, the day program at the Out-of-Door Academy is designed for students in need of activities that stretch their abilities, expand their knowledge, and engage them in creative and active learning. Students have access to Out-of-Door Academy facilities.

Out-of-Door Academy is recognized as a Cum Laude Society member, ranking in the top 1% of schools nationwide.

If you wish to attend the SIG open house at Out-of-Door Academy on January 31, call (866) 303-4744 or e-mail sig.info@giftedstudy.com.

For more open house information and directions to the SIG campuses, visit www.giftedstudy.com.

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SIG also offers their prestigious three-week residential program for gifted children in grades four through eleven at eight of American’s finest college campuses: Amherst College, Bryn Mawr College, Emory University, Princeton University, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, University of Texas at Austin and Vassar College.

Over the past twenty-four summers, SIG has expanded to include eleven residential sessions and twelve day programs. In 2008 alone, over 1,600 academically gifted students in Kindergarten through 11th grade participated in the three-week long SIG programs. SIG is a subsidiary of the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.