Did "gifted and talented" for two years in the government program in Sydney, Australia, and it was awesome. Ages 10-11. This co-incided with my introduction to

Did "gifted and talented" for two years in the government program in Sydney, Australia, and it was awesome. Ages 10-11. This co-incided with my introduction to programming and electronics (I now run a robotics startup in China, after a successful software career). Almost no homework. Focus on collaboration and discussion, creativity and inter-domain reasoning. On the whole perhaps a big part of the benefit was being in the same school as others who weren't in the program and realising it's OK to be different/introspective.