The driving goal of “I’m Going to College” is fostering an ambition among elementary school-age children to go to college.

This free, half-day event offered Aug. 14 by Antelope Valley College from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the AVC campus, is open to youngsters entering the fourth grade. Each child must be accompanied by no more than one parent or guardian.

The governing board of Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union Elementary School District recently voted to designate itself as a school district-of-choice.

The vote means that the school district can accept students from outside its boundaries without release from the students’ school district of residence. But admission must be a random, unbiased process that prohibits an evaluation of whether that pupil should be enrolled based on academic or athletic performance.