Fall Break in and the October 2 - 11, 2015

v SUPER SATURDAYS FALL: October 31, November 7, 14, & 21, 2015 WINTER: January 30, February 6, 13, & 20, 2016 v THE SUMMER CAMP FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED (SCATS) June 12 - 24, 2016 v TRAVEL IN A Travel/Study Program to April 1 - 10, 2016 Selected Points of Interest in Belgium and the Netherlands for v Eighth Grade and High School Honors THE SUMMER PROGRAM FOR VERBALLY Students as well as Interested Adults AND MATHEMATICALLY Sponsored by: PRECOCIOUS YOUTH (VAMPY) The Center for June 26 - July 16, 2016 Gifted Studies at WKU Upcoming opportunities from The Center for Gifted Studies for Gifted Center from The Upcoming opportunities FALL BREAK IN BELGIUM AND APPLICATION THE NETHERLANDS A passport-size photograph and a nonrefundable deposit of $300 are due with the application. OCTOBER 2 - 11, 2015 Eligible participants will be admitted to the This program is an opportunity for eighth grade program in the order in which applications are and high school honors students as well as received. The deposit will be returned if the study interested adults to spend eight days learning tour has reached its capacity. about the history, culture, and people of Belgium and the Netherlands. This program, sponsored by PAYMENT SCHEDULE The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky • $300 deposit and a passport-size photograph are University, is designed to provide participants due with application with a carefully structured experience. Twenty-five • $1,600.00 payment due: August 15, 2015 qualified participants will • $1,600.00 payment due: September 15, 2015 be accompanied by the program director. Applications and requests for further information should be sent to: PROGRAM COST The Center for Gifted Studies The program cost is $3,500.00. Included in Western Kentucky University this cost are: 1906 College Heights Blvd. #71031 • Roundtrip airfare from Nashville, TN. Bowling Green, KY 42101-1031 • Hotel accommodations in double rooms in Telephone: 270.745.5991 or 270.745.6323 Brussels, Bruges, and Amsterdam. An adult Fax: 270.745.6279 may request a single room for an additional Email: [email protected] charge. Web: www.wku.edu/gifted • Breakfast each day at the hotel. • Admission to historic sites, museums, and other points of interest listed on the itinerary. • Travel by motor coach for excursions.

This cost is subject to increase should there be changes in airfares, monetary exchange rates, or service costs that are not now anticipated.

All travelers must be able to participate in normal physical activities. In addition, applicants must meet the following criteria: 1. Enrollment in the eighth grade, freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior year in high school; 2. Involvement in high school honors or gifted services; and 3. Two signatures from teachers, counselors, principals, and/or G/T coordinators recommending participation. PROGRAM ITINERARY

October 2 Depart USA for Brussels, Belgium. October 7 Spend the morning visiting the Friday Wednesday Aalsmeer Flower Auction which October 3 Arrive in Brussels and meet our is held in what is claimed to be Saturday guide. Travel by private motor coach the largest commercial building to Waterloo to visit the battlefield, in the world. About half of all the museum, and monument. 2015 flowers exported from Holland are marks the bicentennial of the defeat auctioned off here in four large of Napoleon at Waterloo. In the auditoriums. In the afternoon visit afternoon, go to Brussels, taking a bus the Van Gogh Museum which tour of the city before checking in at houses 200 paintings owned by Van the hotel. Gogh’s brother, Theo. In the early evening take a canal boat tour of October 4 Spend the day visiting the sights in Amsterdam. Sunday Brussels, including the Grand Place and the Ancient Art and Fin de October 8 In the morning, visit the Thursday Siecle Museums. Spend the night in Rijksmuseum. This recently Brussels. renovated museum houses the best collections of the Dutch Masters in October 5 Depart Brussels for Bruges. Visit the world. In the afternoon visit the Monday the Church of Our Lady to see the Anne Frank House where, for two statue of the Madonna and Child by years, eight Amsterdam Jews hid Michelangelo. Take a walking tour of from Nazi persecution during World the historic Gothic town. Spend the War II. Their story was made famous night in Bruges. in The Diary of Anne Frank.

October 6 Depart Bruges for Ypres. The area October 9 Take a full day excursion to visit Tuesday around this small town was the site Friday the open-air museum of Enkhuizen of five major battles during the First Zuiderzee. Depart Amsterdam by World War. Visit the In Flanders Fields train for the village of Hoorn, then Museum which focuses on the lives take the steam train from Hoorn to of ordinary soldiers who fought and Medemblik and board a boat for a died on the Belgian front. Leave Ypres ride along the coast to reach the for Ghent. Enroute, stop to visit the museum. In the late afternoon, Tyne Cot British Cemetery and the return to Amsterdam by modern German cemetery at Langemark. In train. Ghent, visit the Cathedral of St. Bavo to see the Van Eyck altarpiece, The October 10 In the morning, visit Rembrandt’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb and Saturday house. The afternoon will provide Reuben’s Entrance of St. Bavo into the one last chance to explore points of Monastery of Ghent. Leave Ghent for interest in Amsterdam . Amsterdam, arriving at the hotel in October 11 Depart Amsterdam for the USA. the early evening. Sunday 2015 Fall Break in Belgium and the Netherlands APPLICATION (PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY) Full Name ______Preferred First Name ______(as it appears on your passport) Male ____ Female ____ Date of Birth ______Passport # ______Exp. Date______

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