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A structured way to nurture
your gifted students.
Gifted Lab gives a school’s advanced Grade 5–8 students a year of weekly sessions with GenWise mentors – practising researchers, engineers and mathematicians – going deeper than the syllabus allows, with select teachers trained alongside as facilitators.
GenWise has worked in gifted education since 2016, beginning with Duke University’s Talent Identification Program, handed over to us in India, and alongside Educational Initiatives, the makers of ASSET. Students from over a hundred schools – Sri Kumarans, Shiv Nadar, Dhirubhai Ambani International, GEMS Modern Academy, Fountainhead, Sanskriti The Gurukul – have learnt with us.
Why middle school
In every grade, 2–3% of students are well ahead of their class. School systems that take this seriously serve them formally: Israel screens its top students into weekly pull-out programmes with trained mentors; nearly 7% of US students are in gifted programmes. In India, even the most committed teacher – forty students, a syllabus to finish – rarely has the time or the material to keep these students stretched all year.
Ages 10–14 is the window in which talent has to be converted into competence: disciplinary ways of thinking, persistence with unfamiliar problems, clear explanation. Grades 5–8 still have the time and the flexibility. By Grade 9, boards and admissions crowd that work out.
Find
Potential
Primary years: early signs, curiosity, exposure.
Build
Competence
Middle school: foundations, habits, disciplinary thinking. Where Gifted Lab works.
Stretch
Early expertise
High school: authentic projects, research, stronger choices.
Specialise
Expertise
University and beyond: mentorship, real contribution.
How it works
A school commits to giving its gifted students time for enrichment and learning at their level. Every Friday is a Gifted Day: identified children step out of regular academics to work with advanced material, alongside a peer group of bright students from schools across the country.
The day
- Two live 90-minute sessions with GenWise mentors, a break between, with our teaching assistants supporting.
- Supervised practice on the problems and investigations the sessions open up.
- As numbers grow, more – challenges, project work, community activities with students from other schools.
On campus, or from home
Give a room – which can be branded as the Gifted Lab, with videoconferencing – and a coordinator, and the day runs on campus, for however many children there are, even one or two. Otherwise the children take Gifted Day from home. Either way they learn with the same mentors and the same peer group.
Identifying the children
Through the ASSET Talent Search, through MAP or a comparable assessment, or through direct teacher and school recommendation. If a child the school recommends joins and doesn’t take to the programme, we refund the fee.
The partnership
What the school commits
- Friday as Gifted Day for the identified children.
- A Gifted Lab Coordinator – one point of contact, present with the children on the day. Not expected to teach; the mentor does that.
- Monthly publicity to parents of upcoming sessions. We supply ready-to-send material each month.
What the school gets
Teachers trained as facilitators
Select teachers train alongside our mentors to run rich learning tasks with gifted students – a capability that stays with the school.
Priority access to enrichment
Masterclasses, Career Adda and Parent Hour, with a curated monthly calendar for your families.
Teacher resources
Sample materials for each grade, drawn from what our mentors use in session.
Recognition, on the wall and on the web
A Gifted World certificate/plaque recognising the school as one that identifies and nurtures its gifted children, and its own site at [school].giftedworld.org recording its students’ participation in gifted enrichment over the years – both yours to use. See kumarans.giftedworld.org.
In the classroom
Two sessions from this year, with Grade 5–8 students.
Where does the energy go when a diver hits the water?
Students defended the 18th-century caloric theory of heat – then hunted for the experiment that breaks it. Science as evidence-based argument, not memorisation.
“We don’t see energy forms as different things anymore. There are just two types – potential and kinetic – in the end.”
Can paper do geometry better than a ruler and compass?
Students folded, cut and repaired paper models; only once an object worked did the mathematics behind it get named. A single-cut challenge turned a hard cutting problem into a symmetry problem.
“I wasn’t expecting it to be so mathematics related… happily surprised.”
“The mentality goes from ‘I have to follow great people’ to ‘I have to question great people, try, find alternatives, find a more efficient way.'”
– Adithya, Grade 7, Sri Kumarans, Bengaluru
“I’ve seen him getting disconnected with other classes after the class is over, but here it was very much engaging even after the class.”
– Parent of a Grade 7 student, GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai
“The encouragement to ask questions and explore beyond the textbook has ignited a genuine passion for learning in my twins.”
– Krishnan and Shyama, parents of twins now at UWC ISAK, Japan and Seisen International School, Tokyo
The programme, briefly
- Science and Mathematics, enrichment that is complementary to the syllabus.
- 30 sessions per subject across the academic year, in six 5-week modules
- Grade 5–6 and Grade 7–8 bands, in cohorts of 20–30
- Mentors: PhDs and experienced educators who teach for understanding, not exam prep
- New students start with a five-week trial module; six entry points a year
- Students not yet on a Gifted Day continue in our after-school online slots
- Parents pay GenWise directly; the school handles no fees. Need-based scholarships available
- An annual understanding with the school, reviewed each academic year
- Next entry: 21 August 2026
Full details – what students learn, mentor profiles, fees – are on the parent-facing Gifted Lab page.
Let’s systematise gifted nurturing at your school
Thirty minutes is enough to show you how it would work.
Siddharth Bharath · siddharth@genwise.in