Autonomous Learner:

• Develop self-directed, independent learning skills
• Select appropriate procedures and topics
• Use traditional research skills
• Expand technological research skills
• Use information from a variety of sources

Discovery:

• Categorize, classify, outline, or web interrelated concepts
• Create analogies
• Use deductive reasoning
• Hypothesize
• Make inferences
• Make predictions

Leadership:

• Analyze leadership characteristics
• Develop interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate leadership through use of task persistence
• Demonstrate independence, self-confidence, responsibility, self-
  motivation and task commitment

Research: 

Demonstrate an ability to access a wide variety of sources of information

Creativity:

• Fluency
• Flexibility 
• Originality 
• Elaboration

Thinking Skills:

• Conceptualize complex and abstract ideas
• Identify ideas behind actions and facts
• Identify common attributes, interrelate categories or classify by attributes thinking analytically
• Communicate ideas effectively
• Listen and respond effectively
• Express ideas with clarity, logic, accuracy, and persuasion

Problem Solving:

• Demonstrate thoroughness and proficiency in applying steps of the problem solving process to investigate more complex problems than
  their chronological age peers Recognize and state clearly a problem 
• Analyze a larger problem to identify its sub-problems
• Identify cause and effect
• Collect and interpret appropriate data
• Develop, implement and evaluate a plan of action