Welcome to the fourth quarter edition of the Perrysburg High School Counseling Newsletter! This newsletter is published quarterly and brought to you by the PHS School Counseling Office and the College Advising Office. Please feel free to contact Lindsay Czech or Dawn Burks with any feedback or suggestions.

Important Dates
Friday, April 12 - AIR Testing & Career Day
Saturday, April 13 - ACT Test
April 16, 23, 25, 30; May 2 - AIR Testing (2 hour delay for non-testers)
Friday, April 19 - NO SCHOOL
Friday, April 26 - College Decision Day at PHS for seniors
Friday, May 3 - Registration deadline for June ACT
Monday, May 6 - Senior Awards Night, 6:30 p.m. in PHS Auditorium
Tuesday, May 7 - NO SCHOOL
May 7 - 17 - Advanced Placement (AP) Testing
Wednesday, May 8 - Enrichment, mandatory meeting for juniors
Friday, May 17 - Mandatory Graduation practice for seniors, Gym
Sunday, May 19 - Graduation
Tuesday - Thursday, May 21-23 - Exams (modified schedule)
Thursday, May 23 - Last Day for Students
Saturday, June 8 - ACT Test

Career Day
PHS will host Career Day on Friday, April 12, 2019. Freshmen and Sophomores will attend four different presentations at the high school given by our alumni, parents and community members. Students will attend sessions on a variety of careers. 

Juniors and Seniors are encouraged to use the day for a college visit, career shadow or service project. PHS will provide bus trips to Bowling Green State University and The University of Toledo for a limited number of juniors and seniors.

Questions and comments may be forwarded to Nicole Bihn, School Counselor, at [email protected].

Honors Diploma
For the traditional diploma with honors, a senior student needs to attain 7 of the 8 criteria needed, which are listed in the student handbook. There are three new options, and you may earn any or all four of them, which include: STEM Honors Diploma, Arts Honors Diploma and/or a Social Science and Civic Engagement Honors Diploma. For more information about this, please contact your school counselor.

Seniors - Scholarship Letters
Reminder to seniors - please bring in copies of ALL scholarship award notifications you have received (even from schools you are not planning to attend) to the Counseling office by Wednesday, April 24. These scholarships will be listed in the graduation program. Individual dollar amounts will not be listed but a grand total will be announced for the Class of 2019.

Decision Day
May 1 is the nationally recognized date most seniors must inform colleges of their plans to enroll. This year we will be celebrating our seniors’ next steps on Friday, April 26th. On this day, we ask seniors to wear a T-shirt from the college they are planning to attend. If a senior is not planning to go directly to college after high school, they are encouraged to wear a shirt from their favorite college sports team. Seniors are then invited down to the Media Center during their lunch period for a FREE lunch. So get your college T-shirt ready and we will see you there!

 

Summer Enrichment Opportunities
We have reached the time of year when we start to get numerous notifications from colleges and universities about upcoming summer enrichment opportunities. These are extremely valuable experiences where high school students have the opportunity to participate in academic programs on college campuses. Some include the opportunity to live in college residence halls throughout the session. In an effort to keep you informed about these opportunities, we keep an updated list of links for these programs on our web site -- please click here. You may look through these links and select a program that might be of interest to you based on location of the program and area of interest. We hope you will consider participating in one of these fabulous programs.

Spotlight on U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot

The Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina has the mission of enlisting and training the men and women willing to give themselves to become a part of the United States Marine Corps.

More than 20,000 new Marines leave Parris Island each year after graduating from recruit training. The Marine Corps is the nation’s force in readiness. The primary job at Parris Island is to “Make Marines.” The training objective is to instill self-discipline and confidence, high moral standards, basic military knowledge, physical fitness and wellness as a way of life and individual skills that instill a warrior spirit and a pride, respect and love of Corps and country.

MCAS Beaufort, Fightertown USA
The Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is an important asset and allows individuals who are interested in flying the opportunity to train and fly some of the largest aircraft groups, Marine Aircraft Group-31.

Opportunities
Following recruit training and graduation, new Marines must undergo further training. They will continue on to the School of Infantry, Camp Geiger, North Carolina for Marine Combat Training and Military Occupational Specialty School. Great jobs available in music, medical, business and engineering fields and so much more and the ability to travel, work and live in a variety of places around the world. 

Helpful Links
ACT registration - www.actstudent.org
SAT registration - www.sat.collegeboard.org
Naviance (college planning software) - www.naviance.com
Penta Career Center - www.pentacareercenter.org
Follow PHS College Advising on Twitter - @PHSCollegeAdvis

 

Nicole Bihn, A-F, [email protected], ext. 5184
Dawn Burks, G-L, [email protected], ext. 5183
Steve Pierce, M-R, [email protected], ext. 5185
Rick Rettig, S-Z, [email protected], ext. 5186
Lindsay Czech, College Advisor, [email protected], ext. 5182
Megan Lazor, Secretary, [email protected], ext. 5188
Mary Neely, Secretary, [email protected], ext. 5001
Melissa Notestine, Prevention Specialist, [email protected], ext. 5195