Thanks to a major grant of $150,000 by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) will be able to continue its groundbreaking Project Launch program for a fifth consecutive cycle.

Fifth- and sixth-grade students can now attend a residential program at this Nashville, Tennessee, university.

Since 1980, Duke TIP has engaged over 2.8 million youth who scored at or above the 95th percentile on a grade-level standardized test. Last year, nearly 64,000 academically talented seventh graders accepted the invitation to participate in the 7th Grade Talent Search.

More than 6,400 students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade took College Board’s PSAT 8/9 test through Duke TIP in late 2016 and early 2017.