For yet another year, the Center for Young Talents will encourage and honor its most outstanding graduates who have achieved great success in their field in national and international competitions and have proven their skills, efforts and perseverance by presenting its annual awards and scholarships for gifted children. The planned prizes for encouraging the talented graduates of the Center for 2021 are: one scholarship of up to BGN 500 to support development in the chosen field, one scholarship of up to BGN 400 to cover expenses for participation in international competitions and free one-year optional training for 3 children / youngsters in a project of the Center for Young Talents in the next academic year.
An important condition is that the candidates should have studied at the Center for Young Talents in the academic year 2020/2021 and to send the necessary application documents, which are posted on www.forbgkids.org, no later than May 15, 2021 to e-mail: info@forbgkids.org . The documents can be submitted also on site at the Center for Young Talents, Burgas, 4 Atanas Sirekov Square, and the finalists will be announced on 01.06.2021 on the website of the organizers.
Center for Young Talents opened in 2011 and for the last ten years the gifted children and youngsters from Burgas and the region had the opportunity to gain knowledge and develop their talents in various creative projects of prominent teachers in the field of art and science such as: applied arts, painting and graphics, fashion design, music, Bulgarian, German and English, mathematics, computer science, new technologies, theatrical art, animated cinema, illustrations and comics, ecology and others. The graduates are offered an excellent training facility, work in small groups with an individual approach, non-traditional methods, curriculum adapted to their needs, erudite highly qualified teachers, participation in international and national Olympiads, competitions and contests, and for the most talented is provided a free training.
Since 2016, the center is a member of the European Council of High Ability (ECHA) and the only European certified center working with talented children and youth in Bulgaria. It is also a part of the prestigious international organization ETSN European Talent Support Network, a network for working with talented children.
"We are proud that for ten years now we have had the opportunity to develop and support talented Burgas children. By awarding individual prizes and scholarships to the graduates of the Center we want to encourage children and young people to continue to develop their gifts, to help them prove themselves at competitions, Olympiads, tournaments and contests and last but not least to highlight their successes in a given field. We want to show them that we believe in them and that they should not give up on their dreams!", Said Liliana Slavova, President of the Chance for Children and Nature of Bulgaria Foundation and founder of the Center for Young Talents, Burgas.