• School counselors, GT coordinators, or other school officials can nominate students for Arkansas Governor's School.
• The nominator will click on the link to create a new nominator's account: Nominator Account Creation.
• Choose your High School from the list. If your high school is not listed, you will be asked to enter the name of the school and give some contact information during the next step.
• Complete the rest of the form and choose a password. Your password must contain at least 6 characters. Your email address and password will be used to log into your account.
• The first person that logs in for each school will be asked to enter the junior class size. This we be used to determine the number of eligible nominations since schools are allowed to nominate up to 10% of their junior class.
• Enter the number of students you would like to nominate. You can always come back and add addtional names at a later date. Click on "Submit" once you have entered the number of students.
• Enter each student's first and last name and school email address. Click on "Submit" when you are finished entering the students.
• The students have now been nominated and will receive an email inviting them to apply. This email should arrive within minutes. If it does not show up in their inbox, have them check their spam folder. You may need to ask your IT department to add ags@atu.edu as an allowed address.
• The nominator can return to the login page directly by clicking on the link: Login to AGS Application Portal. You can nominate more students or go directly to the Nomination Summary page by clicking on "Review Existing Nominee(s)".
• On the Nomination Summary page, you can submit the School Recommendation Form and the student's transcript. Click on "Browse..." and choose the file on your computer and then click "Upload". "View Nomination" or "View Transcript" should show up next to the student name. You may want to view your submission to make sure everything came through as you intended.
• You can also monitor the student's progress through the application by clicking on "Details". This page will indicate how many pages of the application have been completed.
• When the student enters the teacher’s name and email address, an initial email will be sent to the teacher letting them know that the student is requesting a recommendation and giving them the Teacher Recommendation Form. Once the student has submitted their completed application, a second email will be sent to the teacher with a link that they can use to submit their completed recommendation form. The "Details" box will indicate when the form has been received from the teacher.
• The AGS Person Status will change to "Student Applicant" once all the required information and items have been received.
• Please email ags@atu.edu with any questions.