Visits for Elementary Students and Parents (Grades K–5)

In an effort to serve more students across our valley, each school may request one in-person or virtual visit per month (Tuesday–Friday only). In-person visits are highly encouraged for K-5 as they are far more engaging for elementary-aged students. Elementary visits are done classroom by classroom. All lessons range from 30-45 minutes depending on student participation.

Visit Topics and Outcomes

  • Career Exploration: Students will be able to identify their interests and relate them to careers, describe jobs they find interesting, and explain how people can make a difference in their community through their career choice.
  • Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: Students will be able to define a fixed and growth mindset, explain the benefit of a growth mindset, and describe how practicing a growth mindset can help strengthen their brain to learn something new.
  • Stress and Your Success: Students will learn how to recognize physical signs of stress, explore coping strategies, and practice communicating when overwhelmed.
  • What Is College: Students will be able to explore their ideas of college, expand their vocabulary as it relates to basic college-related terms, and describe their interest in attending college.

  • Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: Students will be able to define fixed and growth mindsets, explain the benefit of a growth mindset, and practice strategies for developing and maintaining a growth mindset.
  • Majors and Careers: Students will be able to define college majors and careers, provide examples of types of careers that exist, and make connections between college majors and possible careers
  • SMART Goals: Students will be able to identify the five characteristics of a SMART goal, explain why the SMART strategy sets them up to achieve their goal, and write a SMART goal that relates to their life.
  • Stress and Your Success: Students will learn how to recognize physical signs of stress, explore coping strategies, and practice communicating when overwhelmed.

  • College Prep Tips for the Elementary School Parent: This presentation provides tips on integrating college and career topics into everyday conversations, making college more affordable for your student, strengthening your student’s executive skills to help prepare them for college and career success, and allowing your student to picture themselves on a college campus.
  • Preventing Summer Melt (Only Offered in the Spring): This presentation helps parents understand the facts around summer learning loss, how their students might be impacted by summer learning loss, and what can be done to prevent summer learning loss in elementary students.
  • Soft Skills for Success: Elementary school is the perfect time for parents to help their student build foundational soft skills. This presentation addresses communication, adaptability, self-monitoring, and empathy as non-academic skills children need to succeed in school and life. Having good soft skills serves students at all stages of life - in school, at home, and in their future careers.
  • Stress and Your Student’s Success: We all want our children to be as successful as possible, and learning to manage stress, even good stress, is an important part of becoming successful. This begins now, in elementary school, and includes tools that can help your students thrive and succeed in middle school, high school, college, and beyond. We want to set them up for success, and that starts with managing stress!
  • The Truth About College: This presentation addresses the reality of the following common misconceptions about college:
    • "I can’t afford to send my student to college."
    • "I have time before my student needs to think about college."
    • "A college degree isn’t worth it anymore."
    • "My student is not college-bound."
    • "I can’t talk to my student about college - I didn’t go."

Special Events

If you would like to request a visit for a special event (i.e. college/career fair, career day, tabling opportunity, etc.), please email earlyoutreach@unlv.edu.

Visits for Middle School Students and Parents (Grades 6–8)

In an effort to serve more students across our valley, each school may request one in-person or virtual visit per month (Tuesday–Friday only). All presentations range from 30-45 minutes depending on student participation.

Visit Topics and Outcomes

  • College 101: This presentation provides a general understanding of post-secondary options, including institutions and degree types, educational and career opportunities available by degree type, and what steps students can take during their middle school years to pave a successful path to college.
  • College Costs: This presentation addresses the anxiety many students face regarding paying for college by providing a general understanding of college costs and financial aid while emphasizing two key truths: (1) college is expensive, and (2) there are many ways in order to make it more affordable.
  • Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: This presentation provides a general understanding of the difference between a fixed and growth mindset, neuroplasticity, how to develop a growth mindset, and the power of positive self-talk using growth mindset concepts.
  • Knowing Your Value: This presentation demonstrates the correlation between education and future earning potential. Students will act as hiring managers and be responsible for determining the best candidate for the job and how much the candidate deserves to be paid based on their education, experience, skills, and their budget.
  • Majors and Careers: This presentation demonstrates the correlation between college majors and careers by helping students understand what a college major is and providing examples. Students will engage in an activity that allows them to identify their passions and connect those passions to possible majors and career goals.
  • Preventing Summer Melt (Only Offered in the Spring): This presentation helps students understand what summer melt is, what causes summer learning loss, and provides suggestions for combating summer melt.
  • SMART Goals: This presentation provides a general understanding of the five characteristics of a SMART goal, how to develop and implement an action plan, the importance of reflecting on progress and learning, and strategies for achieving SMART goals.
  • Stress and Your Success: This presentation helps students understand the importance of managing stress during middle and high school - key years on the road to college. By learning how to reduce and cope with stress now, students build lifelong skills that support their success in college, career, and beyond.
  • What Colleges Look For–How to Stand Out in High School: This presentation is geared toward high-achieving students and provides a general understanding of building a personal narrative, the role of research and research institutions, college visits, and how to respond to challenges and rejection during the college admissions process.

  • College Admissions for High-Achieving Students: This presentation is geared toward parents of high-achieving students. It provides a general understanding of college rankings, how to help your student respond to challenges and rejection during the college admissions process, how to work with your student to refine important soft skills, and college visits.
  • College Prep Tips for the Middle School Parent: This presentation provides tips on facilitating college and career conversations with your middle schooler, making college more affordable for your student, helping your student select classes colleges care about, utilizing strategies to help your student prepare for standardized tests, and allowing your student to picture themselves on a college campus.
  • Preventing Summer Melt (Only Offered in the Spring): This presentation helps parents understand the facts around summer learning loss, how their students might be impacted by summer learning loss, and what can be done to prevent summer learning loss in middle school students.
  • Soft Skills for Success: Middle school is the perfect time for parents to help their student develop and refine soft skills. This presentation addresses communication, conflict resolution, self-regulation, and perspective-taking as non-academic skills students need to succeed in high school, college, and beyond. Having good soft skills serves students at all life stages - in school, at home, and in their future careers.
  • Stress and Your Student’s Success: This presentation helps parents understand how managing stress early can positively impact their child’s academic journey. Middle and high school are critical years on the path to college, and by learning healthy coping strategies now, students build lifelong skills that support success in school, college, career, and overall well-being.
  • The Truth About College: This presentation addresses the reality of the following common misconceptions about college:
    • "I can’t afford to send my student to college."
    • "I have time before my student needs to think about college."
    • "A college degree isn’t worth it anymore."
    • "My student must go to a big-name college to succeed."
    • "I can’t talk to my student about college–I didn’t go."

Special Events

If you would like to request a visit for a special event (i.e. college/career fair, career day, tabling opportunity, etc.), please email earlyoutreach@unlv.edu.

Visits for High School Students and Parents (Grades 9–10)

In an effort to serve more students across our valley, each school may request one in-person or virtual visit per month (Tuesday–Friday only). All presentations range from 30-45 minutes depending on student participation.

Visit Topics and Outcomes

  • Acing the ACT: This presentation encourages students to start thinking ahead about college entrance tests by providing a basic overview of the ACT, general tips to help students prepare in advance (before their junior year of high school), and practice questions taken from past ACTs.
  • College Costs: This presentation addresses the anxiety many students face regarding paying for college by providing a general understanding of college costs and financial aid, including a summary of the FAFSA, and what steps students can take early on in high school to increase their potential for earning scholarships.
  • College Fit: This presentation provides a general understanding of college fit, postsecondary options including institutions and degree types, educational and career opportunities available by degree type, and important factors to consider during the college search process.
  • College Lingo: For many students starting their college search, it can feel like college officials are speaking another language. This presentation addresses widely-used terminology related to higher education in the following areas: admissions, college classes, and financial aid.
  • Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: This presentation provides a general understanding of the difference between a fixed and growth mindset, how to develop a growth mindset, the path to healthy self-motivation using growth mindset concepts, and the correlation between positive self-talk and success in college.
  • Knowing Your Value: This presentation demonstrates the correlation between education and future earning potential. Students will engage in an activity where they will act as hiring managers. The debrief will include a heavier focus on what students can do during their college years to develop the experience and skills that pay.
  • Majors and Careers: This presentation demonstrates the correlation between college majors and careers by helping students understand what a college major is and providing examples. Students will engage in an activity that allows them to identify their passions and connect those passions to possible majors and career goals.
  • Navigating the College Admissions Process: This presentation addresses the best times to tackle each step of the college admissions process, what to keep in mind when deciding where to apply, how to be a strong applicant that your admission counselor advocates for, and how to make college more affordable.
  • Preventing Summer Melt (Only Offered in the Spring): This presentation helps students understand what summer melt is, what causes summer learning loss, and provides suggestions for combating summer melt.
  • SMART Goals: This presentation provides a general understanding of the five characteristics of a SMART goal, how SMART goals can contribute to the college admissions process, strategies for achieving SMART goals, and how to apply SMART to long-term goals.
  • Scholarship and College Application Essays: This presentation focuses on how students can improve their overall essay writing. These aspects include the purpose of essay writing, how to write to be a strong applicant, and how to tell their story in the best way possible.
  • Resume and Interview Skills: This presentation provides students with knowledge on how to create a resume and prepares them for the interview process. This interactive workshop will cover what a resume is, resume writing tips, how to prepare for an interview and what to do during an interview.
  • Stress and Your Success: This presentation helps high school students understand the importance of managing stress during these critical years on the path to college. By learning how to reduce and cope with stress now, students develop lifelong skills that support their success in school, college, career, and overall well-being.
  • What Colleges Look For–How to Stand Out: This presentation is geared toward high-achieving students and provides a general understanding of building a personal narrative, unique college fit considerations, the role of research and research institutions, and how to respond to challenges and rejection during the college admissions process.

  • College Lingo–Talk the Talk: Colleges and other higher-education-related organizations are notorious for using complicated terminology and phrasing. This presentation addresses widely-used vocabulary related to higher education admissions, college classes, and financial aid.
  • College Prep Tips for the High School Parent: This presentation provides tips on facilitating conversations with your high schooler about the college admissions process, making college more affordable for your student, helping your student select classes colleges care about, helping your student determine if dual enrollment is right for them, encouraging your student to think ahead about college entrance tests, and allowing your student to picture themselves on a college campus.
  • Navigating College Admissions for High-Achieving Students: This presentation is geared toward parents of high-achieving students and provides a general understanding of unique college fit considerations, college rankings, how to help your student respond to challenges and rejection during the college admissions process, and how to work with your student to refine important soft skills.
  • Preventing Summer Melt (Only Offered in the Spring): This presentation helps parents understand the facts around summer learning loss, how their students might be impacted by summer learning loss, and what can be done to prevent summer learning loss in high school students.
  • Stress and Your Student’s Success: This presentation helps parents understand how managing stress early can positively impact their child’s academic journey. Middle and high school are critical years on the path to college, and by learning healthy coping strategies now, students build lifelong skills that support success in school, college, career, and overall well-being.
  • The Inside Scoop on College Admissions: This presentation addresses the following aspects of the college admissions process from the perspective of UNLV admission staff: high school course selection, college admission models, soft skills that help your student stand out, tips on talking with a reluctant student, and the importance of extracurricular activities.

Special Events

If you would like to request a visit for a special event (i.e. college/career fair, career day, tabling opportunity, etc.), please email earlyoutreach@unlv.edu.