May 22, 2001

TIP Ceremony To Honor 500 Seventh-Graders At WKU

Bowling Green, Ky. - The Kentucky Awards Ceremony for the Duke University Talent Identification Program will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 25, at Western Kentucky University's E.A. Diddle Arena.

Approximately 300 of the 500 Kentucky seventh-graders who have high ACT or SAT scores will attend the ceremony, according to Dr. Julia Roberts, director of WKU's Center for Gifted Studies.

"The young people being honored have scored at or above the average for college-bound seniors on one section of one of those exams," Dr. Roberts said.

The keynote speaker for Friday's ceremony will be Lois Adams-Rodgers, deputy commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education.
The Duke Talent Identification Program has conducted the Duke Talent Search for 21 years. The Kentucky Awards Ceremony has been held at Western for 19 years.
For more information, contact Dr. Roberts at The Center for Gifted Studies, (270) 745-6323.

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