Montana Educational Talent Search
Early Awareness: Higher Expectations: Higher Education
The Montana Educational Talent Search (METS) offers services to ensure that students complete high school and successfully enter college or vocational school. Talent Search is one of the TRIO programs (Talent Search, Upward Bound, Student Support Services) created in 1965 to provide equal opportunity for higher education to all Americans.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, METS has been administered by the Commissioner of Higher Education since 1979. The program director in Helena supervises coordinators who provide educational outreach to over 1,200, primarily American Indian, students at 32 junior and senior high schools in five target areas throughout Montana. > More....
