How to help bright kid identify interests?

Apollo6
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:21:27 +0000

What can we do to help our very bright HS class of 2014 son explore what he might want to study in college? He loves playing percussion and piano and he is a strong math student. He will do precal as a 9th grader. He loves to read. He has very strong talent search scores. ACT composite of 32 with 32 in math, 34 and 35 in English and reading and 28 in science. He has taken a number of high school classes online during middle school to get prerequisites out of the way so that he may take more interesting courses in high school. He’ll take chemistry and AP environmental sci in 9th, calculus, physics and AP bio in 10th etc. He’s highly capable but has never really had any outstanding teachers so no one has inspired him in science or anything else yet. All I can personally help him with is finding good books to read. Any ideas for helping him find what interests him most?