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Press Release
For Immediate Release
January 23, 2008
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Media Contact: Mike Liberty
Summer Institute for the Gifted
River Plaza, 9 West Broad St.
Stamford, CT 06902-3788
(203) 399-5187
mliberty@giftedstudy.com
www.giftedstudy.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. |
