Warriors Weekly
⛄ January 23-27, 2023 ⛄
⚠️ Midterm Week ⚠️
🎓 Attention: Seniors Planning to Attend College 🎓
January Financial Aid Presentations and Workshops
Higher Education Services Corporation has a series of Presentations and Workshops to help students learn about available financial aid options and get assistance completing financial aid applications.
What Seniors Need to Know about Financial Aid for College:
- Wednesday, January 25th 6:00 pm
- Thursday, January 26th 6:00 pm
- More details available at https://startheregetthere.ny.gov/events
FAFSA & TAP Application Completion Workshops
Students who have questions or need help completing their FAFSA & TAP applications can get one-on-one assistance from a financial aid expert during our FAFSA & TAP Completion events.
- Monday, January 30 4:00-7:00 pm
Virtual Drop-In Lounge sessions held every Monday and Wednesday from 3-6pm
Please encourage your seniors to attend our Drop-in Lounge if they have a question about financial aid for college, the FAFSA or TAP. Students can connect with HESC to get answers to their questions on applying for financial aid, the types of aid you may qualify for, how to get started completing applications and more.
Events every Monday & Wednesday from 3-6pm during the month of January:
- Monday, January 23rd 3:00-6:00 pm
- Wednesday, January 25th 3:00-6:00 pm
- Monday, January 30th. 3:00-6:00 pm
HESC Texts
Want to get the latest information about financial aid, including important deadlines and events? Students and parents can sign up to receive text messages from HESC at hesc.ny.gov/text.
⭐ Please note the rescheduled track meet due to the early closing 1/19! ⭐
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P2 Character Strength of the Week: Social Intelligence
This week our school community will be focusing on the character strength of Social Intelligence. Social intelligence means you are aware of other people’s thoughts and feelings. You understand why they do things.
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.
👩⚕️ Update from the Health Office 👩⚕️
Counseling Office Corner
Interested in BOCES/CTE programs?
On Wednesday February 1, 2023 a BOCES representative will be presenting on the various BOCES/ CTE programs during period 2 and New Visions period 3 for interested students. At this meeting, students will have the opportunity to register for a BOCES visit day during the Spring semester. Students should sign-up in the Counseling Office to obtain a pre-signed pass to attend this presentation.
Current 9th grade:
Mi-Tech- (Modules of Integrated Technologies) is a career exploration and skills development program for 9th or 10th-grade students with academic needs who are preparing to enter a traditional career and technical education program.
Current 10th grade:
BOCES Career and Technical Education center offers specialized classes to help high school juniors and seniors prepare for adulthood while offering academic credits toward graduation.
2-year program descriptions
Current 11th grade:
Animal Science and New Visions-New Visions is a program for seniors that provides an insider's view of a professional field. The program places students in the actual institution where they are able to receive hands-on experience in that field. Students are able to choose from the following areas of interest:
BOCES Open House and New Visions information-Wednesday, March 8, 4:00-7:00.
🎓 Important Information for Seniors Applying to College & Parent/Guardians 🎓
If you are attending college, did you file for Financial Aid yet?
Looking for money to attend college? Complete the FAFSA by your college's earliest financial aid deadline. Check to see if the CSS profile is required for financial aid. For more information please visit our Financial Aid Process information sheet.
Have you submitted College Applications?
Check your e-mail! Make sure you are checking your e-mail. Many colleges post application updates, release decisions and post critical information to their portal and will send you a username and password to gain access.
Click here for SAT registration & deadline information!
Click here for information on MVCC SAT prep classes!
Seniors: Scholarships available!
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Opportunity for Boys in the Class of 2024
Boys State is offered at SUNY Morrisville during the last week in June, 2023.
Our local American Legion, Helmuth-Ingalls Post 232 is sponsoring 4 boys from Clinton High
School with the possibility of up to 6 boys to attend this year. Mr. Les LaBrecque, a member of
the Helmuth-Ingalls Post, provided the following description of Boys State:
Boy’s State was developed by the American Legion to give youth a better perspective of the
practical operation of government. To do this the program attempts to teach that the individual is
an integral part and responsible for the character and success of government (in other words
“practical citizenship”). Boy’s State is often called a Leadership Action Program. In order to
accomplish these objectives the participants are broken out into a two-party system as it exists in
NY from the local to State level. The parties then run competitive campaigns for the various
political offices (Mayor, Governor, etc.).
In addition to the campaign side there are numerous guest speakers, sports and other activities. I
have been associated with the Boy’s State program for almost 10 years and remarkably, every
boy we have sent to Boy’s State has told us that it was one of the best weeks they have ever
spent!
If you think this is a program you would like to participate in please stop by the Counseling
Office and see Mrs. Edmunds or your School Counseling by Tuesday, January 31.