The Weekly Update
In This Week's Newsletter
- Attention Juniors!! Check out WORK BASED LEARNING for your senior year!
- ASVAB Testing
- 📢📢NEW SCHOLARSHIPS POSTED! January 31st deadlines!!
- Wayne State Med-Prep Night
- ➡️NEW FAFSA information
- Obstacles for CTE Programming
- Mindfulness for teens
- Xello for Families & Xello for Students
- Positivity Project- Social Intelligence
- Scholarship Information & Opportunities 💸🎓
- Employment/Volunteer Opportunities
- Useful Links
- Simon Says...
- Past Newsletters
JUNIORS!!! Learn More About Work Based Learning Opportunities for Senior Year!
The Work-Based Learning program provides students with a combination of school-based preparation and actual work experience; the class enables students to acquire attitudes, skills, and knowledge for career and other life roles in real work settings.
The student will:
• gain a realistic understanding of work in the real world as it relates to a chosen career interest, as well as time management and organizational skills.
• explore a career field before graduating from high school.
• work an average of 15 hours per week for a minimum total of 250 hours in a semester for 1 credit each semester.
• complete class assignments such as journal responses
• submit supervisor-signed timesheets indicating the dates and total weekly hours worked.
• utilize an online classroom format for class assignments/announcements/submissions/communication.
• sign out every day in the Main Office on the Work-Based Learning sign-out sheet.
• turn in quarterly employer evaluations before the end of each marking period.
• complete a resume, list of references, cover letter, and each semester exam.
• attend all Work-Based Learning meetings throughout the school year.
JOIN THE 2024-25 WORK BASED LEARNING Google Classroom page for more details on how to apply! JOIN CODE---> uigp3rm
ASVAB TESTING
ATTENTION 10th, 11th & 12th Graders:
The ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) Exam/Career Exploration Program can help you to take steps now toward finding a career that is right for you. You can benefit from the exam regardless of your plans for after high school. It will be given during 1st, 2nd & 3rd hours on Wednesday, February 21st. Booklets about the ASVAB are available in the FHS Counseling Office.
If you are in grades 10 - 12, and you are interested in taking advantage of this exclusive career exploration, please sign up in the Counseling Office by Thursday, February 15th. If you are unable to come in and sign up for it, please let Mrs. Stapp know and she will be happy to put your name on the list.
New FAFSA will unlock scholarship opportunities for more Michigan students, lowering tuition costs
Applicants who complete the FAFSA are eligible for up to $27,500 for college through the Michigan Achievement Scholarship
With the new changes, it takes most applicants less than an hour to complete the FAFSA and learn if they’re eligible for scholarships such as the Michigan Achievement Scholarship, which provides eligible students up to $27,500 for college.
Students may be awarded up to:
$2,750 if they attend a Michigan community college, per year, up to three years.
$4,000 if they attend a Michigan private college or university, per year, up to five years.
$5,500 if they attend a Michigan public university or are enrolled in a baccalaureate degree program at a Michigan community college, per year, up to five years.
Career and technical education faces obstacles to meet demand
Challenges for these programs include lack of funds, teacher shortages and outdated stigmas, said panelists during a House subcommittee hearing.
Career and technical education programs have helped boost graduation rates, skills training and school engagement. Wider access has been hampered, however, by lack of funds, teacher shortages and outdated stigmas, said lawmakers and panelists during a House subcommittee hearing Thursday.
“The college-for-all mentality has limited student options and created stigma around trades careers,” said Danny Corwin, executive director of Harbor Freight Tools for Schools, a nonprofit that supports skilled trade education in high schools. READ MORE HERE!
Mindfulness activities for teens and students
Mindfulness activities may help teens and students reduce stress and anxiety, manage their emotions, and pay attention to the present. Read more about 18 mindfulness techniques that help reduce stress and anxiety ---> click HERE!
What Can I Add to My Xello Profile?
Xello provides students with a platform to save all sorts of information. From winning a competition to researching a career field or college, and to saving important research paper, Xello offers students the opportunity to save all of the important events, memories, and assignments in one place.
- Did you have a job over the summer? Add it to your Xello profile!
- Are applying for colleges? Apprenticeships or trade schools? Check out the resources in the Xello program (and addit to your profile!).
- Have you completed a class assignment that you're particularly proud of? Add it your Xello profile!
- Thinking about a certain career field but want to know more? Check out career fields in depth in the Xello program!
- Xello is an amazing resource that contains LOTS of information for career & college readiness- CHECK IT OUT!
Positivity Project- SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
Social intelligence refers to a person’s ability to understand and manage interpersonal relationships. It is distinct from a person’s IQ or “book smarts.” It includes an individual’s ability to understand, and act on, the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of other people. This type of intelligence can take place “in the moment” of face-to-face conversations but also appears during times of deliberate thinking. It involves emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
Social intelligence helps individuals build relationships -- and is important to numerous aspects of a person’s life. It allows an individual to form friendships and alliances. And it assists a person against being taken advantage of. People with social intelligence can “read” other people’s faces and know what motivates them. Social intelligence builds over time and as a person ages. In this sense, it is similar to the character strength of perspective.
CURBCO SCHOLARSHIP
Curbco is a strong supporter of individuals who are pursuing careers in the trades. Curbco awards two scholarships annually through the Children’s Champions Breakfast. At least one of the scholarships will support a student pursuing a career in the Machining or Building Trades. One of the scholarships can support a student pursuing a career in any of the eligible Career Technical Education Fields listed below.
Deadline to Apply: January 31,2024
Click HERE --> Information on How to Apply
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The 2024 HSF Scholar Program Application is now open and closes on February 15, 2024,
5:00 PM PT. We encourage you to share this opportunity with students in your network.
Deadline: February 15, 2024, 5:00 PM PT
Eligibility:
- Must be of Hispanic heritage
- U.S. citizen, permanent legal resident, or DACA
- Minimum of 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent) for high school students; minimum of 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent) for college and graduate students
- Plan to enroll full-time in an accredited, public or not-for-profit, four-year university, or graduate school, in the U.S., for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Submit the FAFSA or state-based financial aid forms (if applicable)
See Mrs. Grady in the Counseling Office for More Information
- Sovita Credit Union-customer service member (drop off a copy of your resume to Mrs. Grady in the counseling office to apply)
- Local childcare center is looking for individuals interested in working with children
- Lucky's Steakhouse- host, bussing, to-go staff needed (paid hourly + tips)
- Visiting Angels (click on the flyer below)
- Creative Foam Products- light assembly work, 2 to 4 hour shifts available
