Students who ‘beat the odds’ to soar beyond their circumstances often have a specific person — a biology teacher, a track coach, a theater mentor, or guidance counselor — who went above and beyond to spot their talent, nurture their confidence, challenge them, and point them toward new opportunities.

The Exponential Educators Fellowship is for them: it’s a significant no-strings-attached award to uniquely committed educators, with a demonstrated history of kindling intellectual fires in the minds of gifted students in across North Carolina.

It is given as a recognition of their impact and an investment to unleash these educator-champions to create more inflection points and bend the arc of outcomes for gifted young people, transforming not just students but the future itself.