Youth Programs
College Opportunity Programs
Welcome to the College Opportunity Programs! Our mission is to increase student preparation for postsecondary opportunities through academic enrichment, academic advising, motivational activities and K-12 partnerships. These federally funded programs—Educational Talent Search, GEAR UP and Upward Bound—are administered by the UC Davis School of Education and serve middle and high school students in Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Glenn, Colusa, Tehama, Sacramento, Solano and Yolo counties.
Words Take Wing
Honoring Diversity in Children's Literature
Since 2005, more than 15,000
Sacramento-area school children have benefited from Words Take
Wing: Honoring Diversity in Children’s Literature. This annual
celebration, held each February, gives students the opportunity
to hear about the personal journeys and creative processes of
acclaimed authors and illustrators of diverse children’s
literature whose stories about Native American heritage, Asian
culture, African American culture, and Latino identity, among
many others, allow them to explore a wide range of perspectives
and world views.
About the Young Scholars Program
Program Overview
The UC Davis Young Scholars Program is a summer residential research program designed to expose approximately 40 high achieving high school students to the world of original research within the fields of the biological, agricultural, environmental and natural sciences.
Participants in the UC Davis Young
Scholars Program will work one-on-one with research faculty and
research groups in state of the art laboratories for six weeks.
