In middle school (somewhere in the grade 4–6 range, can't remember exactly which year) they separated out the "gifted & talented" kids for part of the day some days, and put us in a room at another school for some sort of "semi-structured learning" thing. They had some "learning stations" set up around the room on various topics, and we were expected to go from one to the other in any order at our own pace. I did some of the science & math ones, pretty much ignored all of the others, and most days ended up spending most of my time on the Macs playing Tetris or occasionally fiddling with a music scoring program (I couldn't actually read sheet music, but I could click & drag symbols until I'd basically filled the screen with "enough notes" and then hit "play": the results were inevitably like Danny Elfman getting in a car crash with Iannis Xenakis). There was also some sort of overarching project where we each got assigned a country and had to contact the embassy & put together some sort of presentation; I got Uganda, but had zero interest in social studies, so after dutifully writing to the Ugandan embassy and getting no response I pretty much blew it off. It didn't affect my grade (which was still based on what I did in normal class) and it didn't interest me, so the hell with it.

So basically the "Gifted & Talented Program" meant "farting around for a few hours until it was time to go".