Congratulations to our Graduate Assistant, Dayton!
Dayton Heffelfinger started with ETS in October of 2021 as ETS Student Staff, worked as a temporary Education Specialist, and finally became our ETS Graduate Assistant in the fall of 2023 until graduating this May with his Master of Arts Degree in Student Affairs.
He has worked with ETS middle and high school students in a multitude of roles at almost every school. Dayton has made a profound impact on our program, building incredible relationships with students, supporting them in everything they do, planning educational programming over the years, and providing data-driven analysis to our team to help us continually improve what we do.
Dayton will be greatly missed in ETS, but we congratulate him on his amazing achievements!
Wisconsin College Visit
ETS High School Students- our annual out-of-state college visit application is still open! July 21-24 we will be touring universities in Wisconsin!
Three college visits, a day at Six Flags, other excursions and more all for FREE. We will stay in dorms, provide all your meals, and travel in private bus. Families will receive a thorough itinerary at orientation.
Thank you to all of our students who attended our Spring 2025 programming including College Visits, ETS clubs, Career Exploration Field Trips, Senior Banquet, TRIO 5k, and more! Follow ETS on Instagram to see more ETS programming photos: https://www.instagram.com/etsatunl/
Congratulations to our 2025 Seniors!
We are so proud of our ETS Class of 2025! We had at least 21 ETS students receive the Susan Buffett Scholarship this year, many students received the Learn to Dream Scholarship, at least one student received the Smith Diversity Scholarship, and many others in addition to receiving Pell Grants from the FAFSA.
We have students attending colleges in Nebraska:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Nebraska Wesleyan University
College of St. Mary's
Concordia University
Midland University
Wayne State College
Doane University
Bryan College of Health Science
Southeast Community College
College of Hair Design
We also have several of our students attending out of state colleges including but not limited to:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kansas University
University of North Carolina
Southeastern University
Texas Southern University
Northeast Community College
Fort Scott Community College
We loved celebrating our 2025 Senior Class at our Senior Banquet this May at Robber's Cave. We invited seniors and their families to a dinner including a speech from Dr. Ferial Pearson, a photo station, and a tour of Lincoln's famous, Robber's Cave!
Have a sibling going into 6th grade?
Have a sibling in 5th grade attending middle school in the fall? A friend or sibling in middle or high school that wants to join ETS?
The Ethnic Leadership Initiative is a newly founded club at Lincoln High School with with three ETS co-founders, Lama, Cheyenon, and Razan and one former ETS student, current Upward Bound co-founder, Aya. Read their mission statement below.
"Our mission is to promote a stronger drive for change and connection among people of color as a unit. We strive to actively work in communities for people of color to not only educate but change the environments and attitudes which they are surrounded with through diplomacy and community service. This group is designed to host consistent events outside of school which push for differences being made to positively impact our Lincoln communities and America. We accept ideas from all sources in order to gain greater insight and impact for the people. What can you do to make a change?
In the future, we hope to do things like petitions and write letters to politicians to make changes in the community for people of color. We also will be doing community service work to make the local communities in Lincoln a better place."
Juniors- summer is the perfect time for you to start thinking about your college and scholarship applications. Click here for your summer checklist: Continue reading…
