The importance of intellectual capital is highlighted in the current document on 21st century skills. Gifted adolescents are highly able to meet the cognitive challenges of inventive thinking, focusing on creativity and risk-taking experiences. These tasks, laced with creative and critical reasoning provide challenge and rigor for gifted adolescents. Dweck cautions that test scores tell where a student is, but they do not tell us where a student could end up! Focusing on current trends and needs, the presenter suggests strategies for growth, the theory supporting growth, and how to meet the demand for rigor.