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#MYGIFTEDSTORY

An Experiment With Visual Storytelling From Every Zip Code

THE G WORD is delighted to be launching our newest social media initiative, #MyGiftedStory. In tandem with producing our documentary film THE G WORD, we're experimenting with a visual storytelling project that focuses on our nation’s gifted and talented population at every stage of life - from urban, suburban, and rural settings, representing zip codes from all 50 states.

To learn more about the project and the deeper story behind it, check out this recent blog from Marc Smolowitz, director and producer of THE G WORD.

To Participate:

1. Take a white piece of paper and create a sign by writing the following information on it in magic marker:

   • the zip code where you live and/or work;

   • the hashtag, #MyGiftedStory;

   • and, five unique words / terms/ phrases that honestly describe the challenges and opportunities that define the situation for you as it relates to gifted, talented and neurodiverse education in your zip code.

2. Take a series of vertical and horizontal smartphone photos of yourself holding up your sign to share it with the world. Stand in that photo with a sense of pride and power knowing full well that your image, likeness, and zip code story are interconnected with thousands upon thousands of others who reside in similar and different zip codes around the country, all people who care deeply about this all-important question -- In the 21st century, who gets to be “gifted” in America and why?

3. Use this form to upload your photo and other details.*

4. Look for your submission in our dedicated #MyGiftedStory gallery, and on THE G WORD’s social media channels - Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Feel free to share it on your own channels too, using the hashtag #MyGiftedStory, of course!

#MYGIFTEDSTORY EXAMPLES

Our entire team warmly invites you and yours in the larger gifted, talented and neurodiverse communities to contribute to what we hope will become an unprecedented visual tapestry -- one that serves to put a memorable and diverse face to #gifted, #talented, and #neurodiverse America and beyond!​