Sophomores! Look over this comprehensive college preparation list and get on the right track to college! Use this link to learn more about the PLAN test: https://www.powerscore.com/act/help/understanding-the-plan-test
Did you know that in 1889 Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first American Indian in the U.S to receive a medical degree? Read more about her using this link: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_253.html
Do you know why scholarships are important? Read this article to find out how scholarships make a difference! https://www.myscholarship.app/why-are-scholarships-important#:~:text=Scholarships%20provide%20financial%20support%20for,ability%20to%20afford%20higher%20education.
How much do you know about the Australia-born actress and inventor, Hedy Lamarr? Do you know she created the basis of what we now use as WI-FI? Read more about her here: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr
Just a reminder! The Illinois Sheriff's Association and the Hatfield foundation scholarship deadlines are today! The links are found on our website under "Menu", So hurry up and fill them out and send in your application!
Have you heard about Indian Political Activist & Poet, Sarojini Naidu ? Learn more about her using this URL: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarojini-Naidu
Do you know about the American designer and sculptor, Maya Ying Lin? Learn more by using this URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=maya+lin&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1032US1032&oq=maya+lin&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l8.1287j0j1&sourceid=chrome&{google:instantExtendedEnabledParameter}ie=UTF-8
Do you know the importance and benefits of saving money? Read this article and find out 7 reasons you should save for yourself: https://www.stockportcu.com/top-7-benefits-of-saving/#:~:text=First%20and%20foremost%2C%20saving%20money,greater%20sense%20of%20financial%20freedom.
Pi day! Here are 7 things you should know about it!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/world/pi-day-facts-history-explained-scn/index.html
Using this URL you find some helpful ideas of how to prepare and get through exams! https://www.intelligent.com/use-test-taking-strategies-on-exam-day/
Have you heard about the American Gay Liberation and Transgender rights activist, Sylvia Rivera? Read about her using this URL :https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sylvia-rivera
What do you know about Maria Elena Salinas? Learn more about her, for this Women's History Month, by using this URL: https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/alumni/Honorary-Degrees/Pages/Maria-Elena-Salinas.aspx
Remember! The American Foreign Service Association Scholarship & the Horatio Alger Assoc. Scholarship deadlines are today! Go to our page to get the application:
https://talentsearch.kcc.edu/page/scholarships
Do you know about the first Black woman to serve the nation as an ambassador, dean of a law school and serve in a presidential cabinet? Patricia Robert Harris, recognized in the Women's Hall of fame
Article: https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/patricia-roberts-harris/
Have you ever heard about Mary McLeod Bethune, "one of the most important Black educators, civil and women's rights leaders"? Read more about her using this URL:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-mcleod-bethune
Learn more about dyslexia and resources by using this URL:
https://www.everyonereadingillinois.org/dyslexia-resources
and listen for free using this URL:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Dyslexia-Audiobook/B086YYJQ3J
Do you know about the first Native American artist to achieve the America's prima ballerina rank, Maria Tallchief? If not, use this URL to access an article to learn more about her: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maria-tallchief
Do you know about the writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist Zitkala-Sa? Learn more about her with this URL:
https://www.nps.gov/people/zitkala-sa.htm
Freshmen! Excited for college but think it's too early? Here are some things you can do this year to get prepared for the upcoming years!
Do you know about the 1st female Pres. of the Philippines and one of the only women to be TIME magazine's person of the year, Corazon Aquino?
Read more about her and her accomplishments with this URL: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/corazon-aquino
