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The Educational Talent Search Programs at UT Arlington provide free college, career and financial aid information to over 1,000 junior high and high school students each year. Talent Search identifies and selects students who demonstrate the potential for post-secondary enrollment and provides them with the motivation and support to enroll in a program of post-secondary education (college, university, technical or vocational school) after high school graduation.







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We have ETS Advising Centers on campus at all four of our AISD target schools! Please visit them often if you are a TS participant. You can visit with your advisor to find out what’s currently on our activity calendar, receive information on colleges and universities, get help with FAFSA and much more. The advisors are there to help YOU!

Sam Houston HS Advising Center:
Location: Library in the College & Career Center (upstairs)
Phone: 682-867-8561

Arlington HS Advising Center:
Location: Room A-203 (upstairs)
Phone: 682-867-8174

Hutcheson JH Advising Center:
Location: Room 213
Phone: 682-867-2409

Carter JH Advising Center:
Location: Room 123
Phone: 682-867-1728

Please call our main office at 817-272-0348, if you require additional information.



It is very important that we have all of your current contact information. Please be sure when you move, or change phone numbers or email addresses, that we receive the updated changes. We mail out our quarterly calendar of activities so we wouldn’t want you to miss out on receiving those.

Also, we send important updates and reminders via email so if we do not have your current email address on file, you are missing out on information regarding our program. Current email addresses (yours and your parents) are very important! (Please make sure emails from our program aren’t going into your junk email box).

Current telephone numbers are important as well. Please call, email us or Facebook us with your most updated information. You can also give the information to your ETS advisor when you visit with them. We want to stay in touch with you!


Please remember to register for EVERY activity by calling, emailing or letting us know on Facebook.

Advisor Keith Brown email: keithb@uta.edu
Advisor Sharon Hernandez email: sharon@uta.edu


Drop-off/Pick-up location for all activities:

Planetarium Circle
700 Planetarium Place
Arlington TX 76019

For directions visit: www.uta.edu/maps
June 10: University of North Texas (UNT) campus tour
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders
Drop off: 12:30pm, Pick up: 4:15pm
Note: Bring your own snacks.
June 11: Texas Woman's University (TWU) campus tour
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders
Drop off: 9:00am, Pick up: 12:45pm
Note: Please bring a sack lunch.
June 12: Southern Methodist University (SMU) campus tour
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders
Drop off: 11:30am, Pick up: 3:30pm
Note: Please bring a sack lunch.
June 13: Texas Wesleyan University campus tour
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders
Drop off: 8:45am, Pick up: 12:00pm
Note: Please bring your own snacks.
June 14: UTA campus tours
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders
Drop off: 11:30am, Pick up: 1:00pm
Note: Please bring a sack lunch.
PAL CAMP 2013 (Sponsored by the Arlington Police Dept.)
Who: Rising 7th & 8th graders
Camp #1: June 17-21(10 spots only)
Camp #2: June 24-28(10 spots only)
Camp #3: July 8-12(10 spots only)
Camp #4: July 29-Aug. 2 (10 spots only)
Note: Only 10 spots available per camp. A PAL Camp application will need to be completed for the Arlington PD. Get registered ASAP! Lunch & snacks will be provided.
June 26– College 2 Career Conference
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm
Note: Dress business casual. Lunch is provided
July 15: JR High 1/2 Day Camp-Baylor University
Who: Rising 7th & 8th graders
Drop-off: 7:30am, Pick up: 1:30pm
Note: Please bring a sack lunch.
July 16: JR High 1/2 Day Camp-Scottish Rite Children's Hospital
Who: Rising 7th & 8th graders
Drop-off: 8:15am, Pick up: 12:30pm
Note: Please bring your own snacks. Students will be volunteering with the Therapeutic Recreation Dept.
July 17: JR High 1/2 Day Camp-Texas A&M Commerce
Who: Rising 7th & 8th graders
Drop-off: 7:30am, Pick-up: 12:00pm
Note: Please bring your own snacks.
July 18: JR High 1/2 Day Camp-Mountain View Community College
Who: Rising 7th & 8th graders
Drop-off: 8:00am, Pick-up: 11:30am
Note: Please bring your own snacks.
July 19: Junior High 1/2 Day Camp-Ft. Worth Water Treatment Plant
Who: Rising 7th & 8th graders
Drop off: 8:30am, Pick up: 11:20am
Note: Please bring your own snacks.
August 5-9: Week-long SAT Prep Workshop
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders
Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Location: UTA Architecture Bldg. Rm: 319
Note: Please bring your own snacks.
August 12-16: Week-long ACT Prep Workshop
Who: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th graders
Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Location: UTA Architecture Bldg. Rm: 319
Note: Please bring your own snacks.

Summer 2013 Calendar


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