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What's Going On?

There are always things happening with the OSU Educational Talent Search crew. This page is designed to keep you up to date with upcoming events as well as to highlight some of our favorite recent activities. Please stay tuned and enjoy!

Where can you find us this January? At a place near you!

1/1/10: New Year's Day--Happy New Year!!!

1/5/10: ACT Registration Deadline for February test

1/7/10: Bristow High School

1/11/10: Drumright High School

1/12/10: Blackwell High School

                Bristow Middle School

1/13/10: Cushing High School

1/14/10: Cushing Middle School

1/18/10: Martin Luther King, Jr Day--Commemorate his legacy!!!

1/20/10: Olive Public Schools

1/28/10: Deer Creek-Lamont Public Schools

Please stay tuned...This calendar will be updated as additional events are added or changed.

 

6th Annual Kickoff Classic

  All OSU Talent Search participants were invited to bring their family members and friends to the Oklahoma State University campus in Stillwater on Saturday, August 22 to join us for what is becoming one of our favorite traditions! The day included an inspirational keynote speaker (outstanding current OSU Mechanical Engineering student DJ Lamkin), lots of information about financial aid, resources from several area universities & colleges, fabulous door prizes, and a tour of some of the OSU facilities. We had a record turnout for this event and we appreciate all of the support from Oklahoma State University, the Division of Institutional Diversity, and the Stillwater community for helping to make this day possible. And most importantly...we thank the students and their families for making this such an amazing event!

 

Summer Activities

Thanks for another amazing summer full of great experiences and some incredible memories! We'll definitely have some stories to tell throughout the school year. Our summer adventures fell into the following three categories: Planner Rewards Trips, 8th Grade Transitions, and Campus Tours. Details are highlighted below...

Planner Rewards Trips

Students had to earn their eligibility for this trip by being organized throughout the school year and keeping up with their planners. We first took a tour of the Oklahoma History Center in OKC. Next we explored the outdoor symbolic memorial at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. We concluded the evening by attending an Oklahoma Redhawks baseball game in Bricktown.

Posing with the Mickey Mantle statue Standing on the dugout singing "Oklahoma" At the Redhawks game
At the Oklahoma History Center At the Oklahoma History Center Rocking out at the Oklahoma History Center
Observing a moment of silence at the Oklahoma City Memorial Posing with our bus outside the Oklahoma History Center At the Redhawks game

 

8th Grade Transitions (Challenge Course)

Our rising-9th grade students joined us for a day at the Challenge Course at Camp Redlands (near Stillwater). They took part in many experiential games and problem-solving activities before completing the high elements.

Enjoying a team building game Conquerors of the challenge course The challenge course
The challenge course Working together to accomplish a goal The high elements
More high elements More high elements Another problem-solving adventure

 

Campus Tours

This summer we planned tours of Northwestern Oklahoma State University (Alva) & Northern Oklahoma College (Enid campus) for Billings, Blackwell, and Deer Creek-Lamont high schools, Northeastern State University (Tahlequah) & Bacone College (Muskogee) for Bristow, Drumright, & Olive high schools, and Rogers State University (Claremore), the University of Tulsa, & Tulsa Community College (West campus) for Cushing, Glencoe, & Morrison high schools.

Bacone College Touring the Bacone campus Lounging at the University of Tulsa
Checking out some fossils at Tulsa Community College Northeastern State University Checking out the Lincloln Statue at Rogers State University
Learning about a mural at Northeastern State University Tulsa Community College (west campus) Checking out the dorms at Northeastern State University

 

 

Past Events:

TRiO Day 2009!

On February 25 more than 900 students from across Oklahoma converged on the State Capitol to celebrate TRiO Day. There was an official proclamation from Governor Brad Henry, presented by Secretary of State Susan Savage. Then we were addressed by several state leaders, such as Lt. Governor Jari Askins, Senator Kenneth Corn, Senator Constance Johnson, Representative Lisa Billy, Representative T. W. Shannon, Representative Mike Shelton, and many others. In conjunction with the events inside the capitol, students worked with Blue Star Mothers of Oklahoma on a service project to provide supplies to fill "Freedom Boxes" that were shipped overseas to our military service people. OSU ETS was represented by students from Bristow, Cushing, and Drumright high schools. To wrap up the day's events, we toured the Oklahoma Governor's mansion before heading home. TRiO Day was covered as a leading story on Channel 9 News!!! Check out the clip here.

TRiO Day at the Oklahoma CapitolTRiO Day: Sitting in the House of Representatives ChambersTRiO Day at the Oklahoma Capitol

 

5th Annual Kickoff Classic

All OSU Talent Search participants were invited to bring their family members and friends to the Oklahoma State University campus in Stillwater on Saturday, August 23 to join us for what is becoming one of our favorite traditions! The day included two very inspirational keynote speakers, Crystal Perkins-Stell and Makaya Stell, an information session about financial aid, resources from several area universities & colleges, fabulous door prizes, and a tour of some of the OSU facilities.

Our high school group at Kickoff Classic 5     Touring the OSU campus for Kickoff Classic 5

     One of our guest speakers for Kickoff Classic 5     Our middle school group at Kickoff Classic 5

 

Planner Rewards Trip 2008

Posing with the Big Orange BusFun at the Redhawks gameFun at the Redhawks game

Fun at the Redhawks gameNear the Survivor Tree at the Oklahoma City MemorialPosing with the Mickey Mantle statue at the Bricktown Ballpark

Fun at the Redhawks gameTouring the OU MediFlight facilitiesMore fun at the Redhawks game

               

8th Grade Transitions 2008                                                    

Camp RedlandsCamp RedlandsCamp Redlands

Camp RedlandsCamp RedlandsCamp Redlands

Camp RedlandsCamp RedlandsCamp Redlands

            

Campus Tours 2008: OU, UCO, RSU, TU, OCU, & OU Health Sciences Center

The Hideaway in NormanThe University of OklahomaThe OU Health Sciences Center

The University of TulsaRogers State UniversityA dorm room at Rogers State University

Oklahoma City UniversityThe University of Central OklahomaThe University of Central Oklahoma

                                                                                 

                                                                                          

 

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Last Updated: December 14, 2009

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