American Institute For Foreign Study

Press Release

For Immediate Release
January 23, 2008

MEDIA CONTACT:
Mike Liberty
American Institute For Foreign Study
River Plaza, 9 West Broad Street
Stamford, CT 06902-3788
(203) 399-5187
mliberty@aifs.com

Program for Gifted Students at UT Austin and Scholarship Offered to Gifted Students

The Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) will be launching a program for gifted study at the University of Texas at Austin in the summer of 2008.

The program at UT Austin will run from July 13 through August 2, 2008 and will be open to academically gifted and talented students in grades four through eleven. Students live in campus dormitories and choose five courses, selecting from nearly 70 academic, art and recreational classes that meet daily. The cost for the week program is $3,995.

SIG also introduced a full student scholarship for the new UT Austin program during the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) conference in November. The joint scholarship from SIG and TAGT is offered to an eligible student from Texas. All gifted Texas students are encouraged to apply for this opportunity.

“TAGT is thrilled to be able to have the opportunity to award a deserving gifted student a full scholarship to attend SIG at its inaugural summer at the University of Texas at Austin,” remarked Dianne Hughes, TAGT’s executive director.

UT Austin is one of the world’s great research universities. With a large, diverse student body and a beautiful campus, Texas at Austin is located in a city recognized as a center for culture, politics, the arts, technology and music. There will be a special emphasis on science and math courses at SIG UT Austin.

Interested families can also attend an open house on Saturday March 8 at the beautiful Austin campus to better acquaint both parents and students with SIG. SIG’s mission is to provide the highest quality educational and social opportunities for academically gifted and talented students through programs designed to meet their abilities and needs.

Interested families and educators can request brochures, scholarship information and materials by calling Tara at (866) 303-4744, ext. 5159, or by e-mail at sig.info@giftedstudy.com. Visit SIG on the web at www.giftedstudy.com.

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SIG also offers their prestigious three-week residential program for gifted children in grades four through eleven, at nine of American’s finest college campuses: Amherst College, Bryn Mawr College, Emory University, Princeton University, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, University of Michigan, and Vassar College.

Over the past twenty-three summers, SIG has expanded to include eleven residential sessions and four day programs. In 2007 alone, over 1,600 academically gifted students in Kindergarten through 11th grade participated in the three-week long SIG programs. SIG is a subsidiary of the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

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