Missouri
Missouri offers two governor’s school programs: the Missouri Fine Arts Academy and the Missouri Scholars Academy.
Missouri Fine Arts AcademyThe Missouri Fine Arts Academy (MFAA) is a three-week summer residential program for highly motivated student artists in visual arts, theatre, dance, creative writing, and music. The Academy offers an intensive schedule of classes in interdisciplinary and discipline-specific arts, and a wide range of co-curricular activities. MFAA is conducted with the support and cooperation of Missouri State University, and is funded through program fees, endowments, scholarships, and private donations.
- Host: Missouri State University
- Focus: Arts
- Length: 3 weeks
Missouri Scholars AcademyThe Missouri Scholars Academy is a three-week academic program for 330 of Missouri's gifted students who are ready to begin their junior year in high school. The academy is a residential program held on, and partially funded by, the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Additional funds to support the Missouri Scholars Academy are provided by the Gifted Association of Missouri, the Missouri Scholars Academy Alumni Association, and tax-deductible contributions made by alumni and parents of MSA participants. MSA also acknowledges philanthropic support given by various Missouri businesses and corporations. Now in its twenty-seventh year, the program is administered by University of Missouri officials.
- Host: University of Missouri-Columbia
- Focus: Interdisciplinary
- Length: 3 weeks
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