AEGIS Summer Camp: Tennessee State University Pilot Center for Academic Excellence in Intelligence Studies is hosting a prestigious summer camp focusing on intelligence studies. This highly competitive, all expenses paid program, is for rising-junior and rising-senior high school students demonstrating superior scholasticism, character, and leadership skills. AEGIS provides juniors and seniors opportunities to explore different aspects of the Intelligence Community (IC) as well as insight into IC related careers. Tennessee State University is one of the original four pilot programs in the nation. Each year the PCAEIS recruits exceptional students to attend the camp. Only 16 boys and 16 girls are chosen each year . AEGIS camp graduates receive a $250 stipend upon successful completion of the program. The camp offers AEGIS participants instruction in critical thinking, logic, problem-solving and ethics using case studies, short research programs, regional and cultural studies, and a field trip for a team-building activity. AEGIS campers will learn about and participate in:

• Homeland Security Activity Project
• Student-Created Research Debriefings
• Seminars Featuring Experts from the U.S. Intelligence Community
• Intelligence Gathering
• Contests, Academic Challenges, and Team-Building Activities

Requirements: Students must have a minimum 3.0 GPA, demonstrate leadership skills and strength of character, be a rising-sophmore or rising-junior in an area high school (Davidson and adjacent counties), and have an interest in intelligence studies. Students must complete an application form, and provide 2 letters of recommendation (1 from a teacher and 1 from a community leader). Finally each candidate must provide a typed 500 word essay explaining why they are interested in the intelligence studies and the camp.

Questions:
Attn: Ms. Tiaqua Taylor
Pilot Center of Academic Excellence for Intelligence Studies
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37209-1561

Voice: (615) 277-1630 / Fax: (615) 963-5068 / Email: ttaylor37@tnstate.edu