SPRINGFIELD, MO-Phelps Center for Gifted Education Mission The WINGS Program (Working with the Individual Needs of Gifted Students) is designed for academically gifted students in grades K-8. The purpose of the program is to provide academic challenge and rigor, as well as address the social and emotional needs of the gifted student. Four groups of  4^th– and 5^th-grade students undertaking the “Mythology, Chess, and the Art of Learning” unit of study conducted by Gina Wyckoff, a Gifted Education Resource teacher and her colleagues, will read The Art of Learning; play chess (Attacking Chess, et. al); read myths and analyze the connections between them, the game, and their lives; and create a play derived from vignettes of their own autobiographical Art of Learning story.