School counselors, GT coordinators, other school officials or parents of homeschooled
students can nominate students for Arkansas Governor's School.
First Time Nominators
Click to create a Nominators Account.
Choose your High School from the list. If your high school is not listed, you will
be asked to enter the name of the school and give some contact information during
the next step.
Complete the rest of the form and choose your password. Your password must contain
at least 6 characters. Your email address and password will be used to log in to your
account.
The first person that logs in for each school will be asked to enter the junior class
size. This will be used to determine the number of eligible nominations. Each school
is allowed to nominate up to 10% of their junior class.
Enter the number of students you would like to nominate. You can come back to add
additonal names at a later date. Click on "Submit" once you have entered the number
of students.
Enter each student's name and school email address. Click on "Submit" when you are
done with your student nominations.
The students will receive an email shortly after they have been nominated. Their nomination
email will contain a link for them to apply to AGS. If the student does not see the
email, please ask them to check their junk mail or spam folder. You may need to ask
your IT department to add ags@atu.edu as an allowed emial address.
Returning Nominators
to Login to AGS Portal. If you have forgotten your password, click on "Forgot Password"
to have a reset link sent to your email.
Enter the number of students you would like to nominate. You can come back to add
additional names at a later date. Click on "Submit" once you have entered the number
of students.
Enter each student's name and email address. Click on "Submit" when you are done with
your student nominations.
The students will receive an email shortly after they have been nominated. Their nomination
email will contain a link for them to apply to AGS. If the student does not see the
email, please ask them to check the junk or spam folder. You may need to ask your
IT department to add ags@atu.edu as an allowed email address.
We have found some school systems do not allow emails from the application portal.
The student's personal email can be used for the nomination if the school email system
does not allow emails from your system.
Additonal Information
You can nominate additonal students by logging back in to the system and entering
their information ias previously described. The system will only let you nominate
up to 10% of your junior class.
To monitor the progress of the student application, go directly to the Nomination
Summary page by clicking on "Review Existing Nominee(s)."
On the Nomination Summary page, you can submit the School Evaluation Form, the Test
Score Form, and the student's transcript. Click on "Browse" and choose the file on
your computer you wish to upload. Click "Upload". Choose either "View School Evaluation",
"View Transcript", or "View Test Scores". Please open each link to ensure your items
have uploaded properly.
The School Evaluation Form and the Test Score Form are Adobe filable files. You should
be able to open them and type information in the form using the free program Adobe
Acrobat Reader. However, you may not be able to save the completed form to your computer
if you do not have te full Adobe Acrobat Pro program. In that case, you will need
to print the completed form and scan and upload the document to your computer. Please
be sure that the file you are submitting has the student's information and is not
a blank file.
You can monitor a student's progress through the application process by clicking on
"Details" in the portal. This page will indicate how many of the application pages
have been completed. The system only checks for entries for the answers. It does not
check for the quality of the answers. It is possible that students have entered incomplete
answers so that the system will let them go to the next page. You may need to check
with students to see where they actually are in the application process.
Students must complete all of the application questions and SUBMIT the application
in order to be considered.
The AGS Person Status will change to "Student Applicant" once all the required information
and items have been received. If the student has completed the application but the
status does not change, it is generally because they have not submitted their application.
Ask them to make sure they hit SUBMIT.
Teacher Recommendations
Many students who start the application process will NOT complete the process all the way through submission. We know teachers are busy and
therefore we do NOT want them to have to work on a teacher recommendation for a student who may not complete
the application.
Once the student enters a teacher's name and email address for a recommendation, as
an initial email will be sent to the teacher letting them know that the student has
tentatively listed them to submit a recommendation. The actual link to submit the
recommedation will be not be included at this time.
Once the student has submitted their COMPLETED application, a second email will be
sent to the teacher with a link to use to complete their recommendation. Teachers
have three addtional weeks after the student application deadline to complete their
recommendations. Teacher recommendations need to be received by February 7, 2024.
An email will also be sent to the school personnel who nominated the student with
the name and email address of the teacher. Please check to make sure the email address
is correct for the recommending teacher and that the person indicated is a teacher
and not a friend or family member.
Nominators can check the status of the teacher recommendation and correct the email
address from the student "Details" page on their Nominator account. There will also
be a link to the teacher recommendation that can be used in the event the email gets
lost. Each link is specific to the student and the recommending teacher.
Questions?
Phone: 479-356-2037 (Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm)
