Is The Achilles Project For You

 Your 2e status may be unidentified because of your strengths and weaknesses masking each other.

• Do you have above-average intelligence, creativity, and commitment to tasks that interest you?
• Would you define your personality as impulsive or hypersensitive?
• Do you find that you have a great deal of difficulty with memorization, computation, spelling, and/or organization?
• Are you very interested in and excel in a particular area like sports, music, theatre, dance, visual art, computers, or an academic subject and also have a record of underachievement and/or special needs?

If you answered yes to these questions, then you are an Achilles Project Student! We designed the Achilles Project especially for students like you to improve self-esteem, academic performance, and behavior, and to help you define your career direction.

It will benefit you both in your academic performance and in transition to the workplace. By developing your previously overlooked talents, the program serves as a societal resource for scientific/technological advancement and cultural enrichment. Data show when the environment provides gifted individuals, such as yourself, with the types of support you need, your contributions are likely to be extraordinary. It is with pride and confidence in both the program and you as a participating student that NCC offers The Achilles Project.