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Convention Highlights Reimagined! Anywhere

Opening Keynote: Scott Ross Closing Keynote

Will The Real Creative Person Please Stand Up?
2020 Perspectives:
We think we know creativity when we see it, but do we? In

the early days of computer entertainment, it was the MIT NAGC Past-Presidents Panel
mathematicians who made the special effects work. How did What lessons from the past will help provide
they merge the reality of the world as they saw it with the clarity and empower us today to make better
reality of the movie goer? Is there a creative personality?
decisions for the future? NAGC leaders
What kind of person causes you to think, “Are they the
serving as past-presidents during the past 20
creative type?” years share their perspectives on the past and
Scott Ross will share how his career as a special effects digital pioneer meant he ideas for the future of our organization.

had to challenge his stereotypes of creativity and learn how to best help talented
people with differing skills and personalities work together. He will urge us to plan MODERATOR:

for the future as technology becomes even more ubiquitous and powerful, and

provide inspiration for how we can nurture the gifted minds in our lives. Jonathan Plucker—Julian C. Stanley Professor

of Talent Development, Johns Hopkins
University
Featured Speakers

Gifted Boys to Men: Intellectual, Social and Emotional Turning Points PANELISTS:
• Richard M. Cash, Consultant, Rich Educational Consulting, Inc. • Sandra Kaplan—Professor of Clinical

• Jaime Antonio Castellano, Professor & Targeted Case Manager, Education, University of Southern
Florida Atlantic University/Multilingual Psychotherapy Center California

• James R. Delisle, Teacher, Horry County Schools • Sally Krisel—Assistant Professor,
University of Georgia
• Tarek C. Grantham, Professor, University of Georgia
• F. Richard Olenchak—Professor,
• Robert A. Schultz, Professor, The University of Toledo
Purdue University
Lessons Learned While Jumping From a Perfectly • Paula Olszewski-Kubilius—Director,
Good Airplane: And Other Stories Occurring From Center for Talent Development,

the Fear of the Unknown Northwestern University
Gilman Whiting, Professor of African American • Sally Reis—Board of Trustees
and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor, University of
Connecticut

Shady Goldilocks & Suspect Fairy Tale • Ann Robinson—Founding Director,
Characters: A G/T Talent Development Strategy Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted
Colin Seale, Founder & CEO, ThinkLaw Education, University of Arkansas at
Little Rock
• Del Siegle—Professor, Director,
National Center for Research on
Teaching Teens a Superpower: How to Cope Gifted Education, University of
with Academic Stress Using Strategies That Connecticut
Co-occur with Happiness • Joyce VanTassel-Baska—Jody and
• Elizabeth Shaunessy-Dedrick, Layton Smith Professor Emerita of
Professor, Exceptional Student Education and Founding Director of
Education and Coordinator, Gifted the Center for Gifted Education at
Education Program, University of The College of William and Mary
South Florida
• Shannon Suldo, Professor, School
Psychology and Licensed Psychologist,
University of South Florida