"I have always been interested in high abilities. Since I was a child I have been able to know some cases and appreciate the great potential of some children. I always had the need to help them in some way," explains Patricia Olmedo, a 4th year student of Pedagogy in the School of Education and Psychology at the University of Navarra.

This ideal that Patricia expresses and that has been in her head for years was the germ for her to choose as subject elective subject "Education of the Gifted and Talented", by Professor Javier Tourón. This was the starting point to learn the basic concepts related to this field, the main theories and measures of assessment, but above all, "to understand the need for these children to develop their abilities, which otherwise would be lost".

With the prospect of a summer ahead, Patricia decided to go to Professor Tourón who told her about the international centers of reference letter in this subject of Education, whose contents she had studied in the development of the subject. One example is the CTY (Center for Talented Youth), a program that focuses on students who are advanced in math and verbal area and aims to help them in their development.

This program, which belongs to the Johns Hopkins UniversityThe program, which belongs to Johns Hopkins University, is held in different parts of America and other parts of the world. "They are summer campus with two sessions of three weeks each, in which students have the opportunity to study advanced topics of their interest that are not offered by schools or educational centers," he explains. CTY offers them a multitude of programs on different topics: Philosophy of the Mind, Cryptology, International Politics, Genetics, Macro and Microeconomics, among others, from a catalog of more than sixty programs. During the three weeks that the children spend at campus they focus on the study of the selected field, following a serious academic program, which includes no less than five hours of class and a few hours of study.

Likewise, Professor Tourón, who founded CTY Spain and offered similar programs in Spain between 2001 and 2011, contacted the directors of CTY at contact and began the process of application to be able to work in summer in some of the campus offered by CTY. A few weeks later, after an interview, they confirmed Patricia's place to work for six weeks at Dickinson College (Pennsylvania), one of the places where this program takes place every year.

"During this time with CTY in which I worked as Resident Assistant (RA) I had at my position a group of 14 girls in the first session and another of 12 in the second session, of which I had to keep track staff as much as possible. That is why we had to spend a minimum amount of time in class with them, to know their progress and detect any possible problem that might exist with any of them. Thus, I had the opportunity to see how these children work and the methodology the teachers used to teach each subject. I have seen them pretend they were part of NATO, see how they decoded encrypted codes or discuss how to avoid corruption in the American government", says Patricia.

An undoubtedly exciting experience that has reaffirmed "the need to explore and work this area of Education so forgotten in Spain and at the same time necessary to develop to achieve what is the challenge of every educator: to train in a personalized way to each of their students, attending to their specific needs.