Our ​Story

Our family of experienced and gifted educators' sole mission is to continuously inspire, motivate, and prepare your youth to be the future leaders of tomorrow. Our love for education and enthusiasm is contagious both inside and outside of the classroom. We believe in engaging your children in a fun, safe, dynamic, challenging, and positive learning environment. We truly view our gifted scholars as active participants in an interactive educational process, rather than merely passive recipients of information. Our program is specifically designed and geared towards the gifted and talented and/or highly motivated students in an engaging, student-led, and creative manner. Students not only learn how to maximize their critical thinking and problem solving skills through the use of hands-on activities, but they also master the application of these skills in the real world. Here at Smart Minds, we highly value innovation and strongly believe that if you don't fail at some point, then you simply are not being innovative enough. 

Smart Minds was founded by Mr. Touraj Parvin on those same principles over a decade ago. His unparalleled experience in gifted education paired with his desire to make a positive difference in each and every student's life has organically created an environment that fosters and enhances each student's perspective on their educational career, and has been proven successful by thousands of students. In fact, Mr. Pedram Parvin followed in his father's footsteps and fulfilled his childhood dreams of making a difference in the education of our youth. He was always supported and encouraged to follow his dreams by his loving parents (Mrs. Mina Parvin & Mr. Touraj Parvin). Smart Minds has not only expanded throughout Arizona, but we have also presented our programs for the top international students throughout Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Our success has rooted from our caring and strong family values, and we will always work closely with your family to better your child's education. 

The Parvin family thanks you in advance for allowing us the privilege of working with your incredible students! 

Our Program

Welcome to Smart Minds Summer Academy! Our summer camp offers the gifted and talented or highly motivated students entering 2nd through 7th grades the opportunity to engage in a captivating and an academically challenging program in the company of peers who share their enhanced abilities and love of learning.

We have organized our academy to offer a choice of morning program (9:00am - 12:00pm) featuring courses in Polyhedraville, Chemistry and Genetics, and Let’s Start a Business OR an All-Day program (8:00am - 5:00pm) that includes Polyhedraville, Chemistry and Genetics, and Let’s start a Business in the morning as well as Project-Based Engineering, Mastering Jeopardy, and Chess Strategies in the afternoon.
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It is the philosophy and vision of our program, our distinctive approach to education, and the quality of our teachers that make our program unique and exceptional. All of our teachers are certified, highly qualified, gifted and/or content specialists who are among the most well-respected and distinguished educators in Arizona. They apply strategies that have been proven to be inspiring and effective in motivating gifted and academically advanced students.

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