Join Urbandale Academic Boosters (UAB) at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 11^th  in the Urbandale Middle School Media Center to meet and visit with Maura Flaschner of Iowa State University.  Maura is Assistant Director for the Office of Admissions, and Director of PreCollegiate Programs for Talented & Gifted.  We look forward to hearing about many wonderful opportunities from the OppTAG programs available to high ability students from elementary, middle, and high schools around Iowa.  Meeting details and a link to the OppTAG web site may be found at the UAB site listed below.  The meeting is free, but we would welcome emails to coachtmeyer@mchsi.com in advance to help plan handout and seating needs.

The November 13^th UAB meeting has been cancelled to free up time so that participants may instead attend an important meeting—the TAG program review committee meeting on November 26th.  This committee will meet to review the changes made in TAG identification last school year and give input to programming options the TAG department is creating this year. The TAG program review committee is made up of TAG teachers, other UCSD teachers, administrators, students, and parents.  If other parents, students, and community members are interested in joining this committee (which is separate from the UAB), then they can contact Carol Halverson at 457-5050 to request a letter and agenda, location, and meeting schedule be sent to them.

Feel free to come to any of our upcoming monthly UAB programs.  Meeting dates and additional information and references may be found at our web site, http://www.oocities.org/uaboosters/ .  UAB President, Terry Meyer