Upcoming Events – October 13, 2017
Dear Parents and Students,
This is our communication
to you on pertinent LCHS and college events, as well as scholarship
opportunities called to our attention. We attempt to send this out every
two-three weeks. For daily announcements and working links to great sites,
check out this below!
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Dual Credit
Sign up for Spring 2018
October 25th &
November 2nd-NMSU & DACC
Please see Ms.
Burciaga or your counselor in the guidance office to obtain your paperwork.
Return your paperwork to Ms. Burciaga by October 20th to
get your appointment.
See your counselor in the guidance office or call Stephanie Muir at 527-9540
for more information.
AES Seminar Dates remaining for
semester
Case
Management Dates:
Thurs. October 26 - 9:25-10:10
Wednesday, November 29 -
9:25-10:10
Grade Level Dates:
9th
Grade – Library Classroom meets with Ms. Palacio and Mrs. Turner
November 7, 10:55-lunch
Dec. 6, 9:25-10:10
10th
Grade – E104 with Mr. Temple and Ms. Stoltze
Nov. 8, 9:25-10:10
Dec. 7, 9:25-10:10
11th
Grade – D111 with Ms. Massey and Mrs. Cort
November 7, 9:25-10:10
December 6, 2:45-3:30
12th
Grade – C221 with Mrs. Salgado
November 8, 2:10-2:55
December 5, 9:25-10:10
Monday, October 23 – FAFSA Night for Seniors in Library
5-7 pm.
Saturday, October 28
ACT
– Be at your testing site by 7:45 am with your photo ID, ticket, pencil and
calculator.
Sunday, October 29
Monday, October 30
>Voices of Democracy Scholarship
Application Due. See below
>Stokes Scholarship Application
(NSA) Due. See Below
Tuesday, October 31
Gifted and Talented STEM
Program for High School Application due. See Below
The National
Security Agency's (NSA) Gifted and Talented Program is open only to high
school
seniors. The program is designed for students
who have demonstrated an aptitude
for
engineering, math and science
Tuesday, October 31
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
National Student Language Initiative
(NSLI) Application due. See Below
Friday, November 3, 2017
2:15 pm Texas Tech Admission
Rep Visit. Please contact Mrs. Salgado in AES, ksalgado@lcps.net
if you would like to meet with them.
Deadline
to register for ACT on December 9, 2017
Deadline to register for SAT or SAT
Subject Tests
Saturday, November 4
SAT
or SAT Subject Tests – Be at your testing site by 7:45 am with your photo ID,
ticket, pencil and
calculator.
Monday, Nov 6.
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Due.
See below.
Friday, November 10
Veteran’s
Day – No School
Monday,
November 20 – Friday, November 24
Thanksgiving Vacation ALL
WEEK!!
Thursday,
November 30
Daniels Fund Scholarship Application DUE
Friday, December 1
NMSU ScholarDollar$ Scholarshlip application due for President’s Associates Excellence Scholarship, and Aggie Achiever
Scholarship. https://scholarships.nmsu.edu/
Saturday,
December 2
SAT
or SAT Subject Tests – Be at your testing site by 7:45 am with your photo ID,
ticket, pencil and
calculator.
Saturday,
December 9
ACT – Be at your testing site by
7:45 am with your photo ID, ticket, pencil and calculator.
Friday,
December 15
AXA
Acheivement Scholarship Due. See Below
Scholarships!!
$2,000
$1,000
$1,000
$10,000
$1,000
$2,500
$10,000
$1,000
$500
***NCWIT- Aspirations in Computing for High School, Grades
9-12! Application Deadline November 6, 2017.
***Daniels Fund For more information, visit www.DanielsFund.org/Scholarships. Application window is open September 29, 2017 with a deadline of November
30, 2017.
The
Daniels Scholarship Program provides a four-year annually-renewable college
scholarship for graduating high school
seniors in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming who demonstrate exceptional character, leadership, and
a commitment to serving their communities. It is a “last dollar”
scholarship
that pays toward tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and
miscellaneous educational expenses.
Scholars may attend any nonprofit accredited school in the United States.
***VFW Voices of Democracy
Youth
Scholarships
The VFW is dedicated to promoting
patriotism and investing in our future generation. If you are a
democracy-loving high school student interested in a $30,000 college
scholarship or a patriotic middle school student interested in
winning $5,000, these scholarships may be for you.
***Stokes Educational
Scholarship Program (NSA)
The Stokes Educational Scholarship Program,
formerly known as the Undergraduate Training Program, facilitates the
recruitment of individuals, particularly minority high school students, who
have demonstrated skills critical to NSA. Stokes is open to high school seniors planning
on majoring in computer science or computer/electrical engineering.
***Gifted and
Talented STEM Program for High School Summer 2018 Internship with paid benefits
***National
Youth Language Initiative for Youth NSLI-Y
Application Deadline is November 1 for summer 2018.
The National
Youth Language Initiative for Youth is part of a US Government initiative that
prepares American citizens to be leaders in a global world. NLSI-Y programs
offer intensive language immersion in a variety of locations around the word.
Beginners are welcome to apply for any of the target languages; previous
language experience is not required. Scholarships are available for students to
learn specific languages.
***Hispanic
Scholarship Fund We empower Latino families with the knowledge
and resources to successfully complete a higher education, while providing
scholarships and support services to as many exceptional Hispanic American
students as possible. Multiple deadlines
***AXA
Achievement Scholarship
The AXA Achievementsm Scholarship
provides over $1.4 million in scholarships to young people throughout the
nation representing all 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico. Students have
the opportunity to receive a $2,500, $10,000 or $25,000 scholarship. In
addition, for every student who wins a scholarship, a grant in the amount of
$1,000 will be made to the winner’s school.
Deadline Dec. 15, 2017
***Building Scholars – UTEP
A prestigious research-intensive training program, funded by
the National Institutes of Health and reserved for students with a strong
motivation to become researchers in biomedical, social, behavioral or health
sciences or biomedical engineering. Areas of emphasis include: addiction,
cancer, environmental health, health disparities, infectious diseases,
neurodegenerative and chronic diseases and translational biomedicine.
http://buildingscholars.utep.edu/web/index.php/undergraduate-scholarship
