Quest is a program for gifted students. In the elementary level, kids in 3rd to 6th grade go with their grade once a week to Madrona Heights, the school where Quest is held. Kathy Watson, the teacher, and Sue Peters, her assistant, both add a unique atmosphere to the class. Throughout the year, there is one dominant project, the Student Directed Study. The SDS is a report that spans from October through March. Kids pick a topic within the boundary set in the beginning of the year. From October to December is research, and writing an outline happened here too. After getting back from Christmas break, January was spent working on the written report rough draft, second draft, and the final draft. February and March were visual aids. Finally, to the excitement of some and the horror of most, the Oral Presentations! Each child must present for 5 to 20 minutes each on their topics. This, in the end, is one of the most relieving days in Quest. Another fun thing is the SFN (Something from Nothing.) In the SFN, kids are in 1-5 people groups that build "Something from nothing." Each group designs and builds a different creation from some basic materials, including coffee filters, paper, cotton balls, and straws. Branching off from the broad SFN are the Eggstacle course, where a group of five kids push and pull an egg through various obstacles, including a table top height free fall. The winning is determined by your egg not detonating upon impact, or if they all do, which one is the least broken. The last SFN is called Leticia Luminare, and what happens is that each group gets some basic SFN materials to build a carrier to place a light bulb in so that it can survive being dropped off of the roof of a single story building. At the beginning of the day at Quest, each kid must do a problem solving activity, called the Problem of the Day (POD). These are sometimes the most challenging part of the Quest day. Those are some of the many activities that make quest really different from other places.