Talent Search is a federally funded program encouraging students to graduate from high school and enroll in post-secondary education. Students meet with TS advisors in group and individual sessions throughout the school year. Monthly participant workshops focus on success in high school, career awareness, college selection, and financial assistance. Special events allow students to gain leadership skills, learn about careers, and visit college campuses.
The Central College TS program serves students in Des Moines Public Schools: East, Lincoln, and North high school and Goodrell, Harding, Hiatt, Hoyt, McCombs, and Weeks middle school . Our office is located on the campus of Central College in Pella.
For more information click on our brochure here.
If you are not part of Talent Search and would like to be, please email Melissa Anderson, assistant director of talent search, at andersonmb@central.edu.
Talent Search is 100% funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor in the amount of $500,00 to serve 1,000 students in grades 6 through 12 in the target schools designated in the grant.
