South Sioux City Guidance Department

South Sioux City High School Guidance Department
"Getting the right results by doing the right things for all students"
"Preparing & Helping Students To Better Themselves"

Local Scholarships Available at this Time to Seniors
Form that all seniors that have received scholarships need to fill out so we can put it in the newspaper
Scholarship Page with Files for Editing

2007-2008 Scholarships Deadline Website Criteria

SSC Police Officers Association 4/3/2008 Character

Common Scholarship (11 scholarships) 4/4/2008 Citizenship, leadership, financial need

AITP Scholarship 4/4/2008 www.aitpomaha.com (on-line only) Going into Computer related field

Tyler S. Bay/BPOE Elks Lodge #112 4/4/2008 Character & Special Circumstances

Nebraskans for Peace 4/10/2008 Written Essay

Phillips Performing Arts Scholarship 4/10/2008 Going into performing arts, Min. GPA 2.8

Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation 4/10/2008 Attend NE College, Financial need

Catholic Daughters Scholarship 4/11/2008 Catholic Male or Female

James H. Graham Leadership Awards 4/15/2008 Leadership, Character, GPA 2.5 & above

SFCU/Fleming-Hansen Scholarship 4/15/2008 Education Major

Hope Lutheran Church 4/15/2008 Member of Hope Lutheran Church

Class of 2005 Legacy Scholarship 4/16/2008 Written Essay

Engineers Club of Siouxland 4/16/2008 Going into Engineering

Home Builders Assoc. 4/18/2008 Character, Leadership, & Financial Need

Siouxland Federal Credit Union 4/18/2008 Member SFCU, GPA: 3.0, Business Fin.

Richard K. Herzer - IHOP 4/21/2008 Employee of IHOP

OMADI Masonic Lodge Scholarship 4/25/2008 Character, Financial Need

SSC Alumni Association 4/25/2008 One parent must have graduated from SSC

Laura Cahapter 301 Eastern Star 4/25/2008 Good citizenship & high moral character

UNL Alpha Gamma Nu Scholarship 5/31/2008 Going to UNL

Nelnet $1 Million Scholarship Giveaway www.nelnet.com/win Apply online - random drawings

There are hard copy information sheets in the guidance office for all applications

Important Dates to Remember

Parent-Teacher Conferences
Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 3:45 - 6:45 p.m.
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 5, 2009, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 3:45 - 6:45 p.m.

ACT Testing
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Prep Course offered by SSCHS

Dates	Deadlines
October 25, 2008	September 19, 2008
December 13, 2008	November 7, 2008
February 7, 2009	January 6, 2009
April 4, 2009	February 27, 2009
June 13, 2009	May 8, 2009

ACT Test (All Juniors)
PLAN Test (All Sophomores)
Monday, Oct. 22nd

Financial Aid Meeting
Monday, January 13, 2009
5:30 p.m. for Spanish Speaking Parents
7:00 p.m. for English Speaking Parents
Both meetings held in the:
High School Media Center/Library

PSAT Test
(Top 25% Juniors & Top 10% Sophomores)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Note: Students must sign up to take this
test and pay a $13 fee

Tri-State College Fair
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Marina Inn, South Sioux City, NE
1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Financial Aid Meetings Every Half Hour

NASA Science & Technology Scholarship Program (STSP):
It is a scholarship that will not only pay your college tuition, but offers you a job at NASA when you graduate!
Congress has recently approved the establishment of the NASA Science & Technology Scholarship Program. It is anticipated that this scholarship will provide full tuition leading up to a 4 year degree in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Technology. It is expected that upon graduation recipients will work for NASA for 2 years for each year of scholarship that they received with a maximum of 4 years commitment.
Initial applications for this program may be taken ring the summer of 2004. Students who are interested should go to http://www.spacegrant.org/ or http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/stsp/ to enter their names in the database.

ACT Test Results: Seniors match highest composite score in history. [ ACT Results for SSCHS ]
The ACT results are in, they are certainly worth celebrating! The composite score for the entire class matches the highest scores ever. The score continues a 5 year trend upward in ACT scores. The score is the highest in 12 years & matches the scores from 1989-1990 and 1984-1985.

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