Elementary school Gifted programs are alive and well in British Columbia, or at least were as of 2001. My experience followed the same general pattern of going to some other school one afternoon per week to do some random activity. I was fortunate in that, while none of our Gifted specialists seemed to talk to each other, they all had reasonable ideas of what to do with a bunch of clever but easily distracted children. Most memorably, my group spent a great many afternoons playing with HyperCard on a bunch of Macintosh computers, several of which were older than we were.