Educational Talent Search (ETS) is in its twenty first year at Minnesota State University, Mankato and is a federally funded program (through the U.S. Department of Education). ETS is designed to identify low-income, first-generation potential college students and encourage them to complete secondary education and undertake a program of postsecondary education. The program publicizes the availability of student financial assistance for persons who seek postsecondary education and encourages persons who have not completed education at the secondary or postsecondary level, but who have the ability to do so, to reenter these programs.
Eight hundred low-income, first-generation potential college students from southcentral Minnesota participate in the ETS program. Eight hundred students, grades 6-12, from thirteen target schools. School districts served: Butterfield-Odin (7-12), Fairmont (7-12), Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton (7-12), Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial (7-12), Madelia (7-12), Mankato East (9-12), Maple River (9-12), Mountain Lake (7-12), New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva (6-12), Sleepy Eye Public (7-12), St. James (6-12), United South Central (9-12) and Waseca (9-12).
