ENID, OK - The Oklahoma School of Science and Math at Autry Technology Center has extended the application deadline for the 2020-2021 school year. The deadline to apply is now April 17, 2020.
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All students selected to attend OSSM at Autry will participate in a one-year scholastic program of excellence with students who share similar interests. Students are required to take the assigned calculus and the assigned physics course each semester. Second year students can also take statistics. All courses are on a semester basis at the collegiate level requiring rigorous academics and a minimum of one-hour homework per evening.
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Autry Tech’s role as a Regional Center is to provide advanced educational opportunities for high school students gifted in math and science while allowing participating students to maintain their local high school affiliation and extracurricular participation. A cooperative effort of the local high schools, Autry Tech and OSSM makes this program possible.
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Autry Tech’s Oklahoma School of Science and Math was started in 2000 with two instructors and has been one of the most successful regional sites of the eight regional centers left in the state.
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Since 2000, Autry’s OSSM program has had over 285 students that have received $9.2 million in scholarships. One-hundred percent of Autry’s OSSM graduates have gone on to attend college with 86 percent of them receiving college credit for calculus one and two. These former students have 71 different college majors at 62 different universities. Of these individuals, 22 are National Merit finalists and 19 are academic all-staters. Students in Autry’s OSSM program also take the Advance Placement Calculus BC exam. Nearly 50 percent of Autry’s students earn a perfect score. This is almost double the Oklahoma average of twenty-six percent earning perfect scores.
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Applications are available online at autrytech.edu. For more information contact Janet Strate at janetstrate@autrytech.edu or Bailey Brown, OSSM instructor, at bbrown@autrytech.edu.
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OSSM At Autry Extends Application Deadline
