Dear FHS Community, High school is a time of significant importance in the life of a student. The decisions that are made throughout the high school years impact academic, college, career, and personal opportunities for our students. We are committed to providing students with a supportive and safe learning environment whereby they can experience extraordinary development in their academic and personal goals. A school culture of purpose and belonging inspires students to achieve. Connecting our students with educators, curricula, and learning opportunities that match their post-secondary goals, brings meaning to their high school experience. We teach our students’ that in high school, all their efforts matter. Over the four years, a student’s dedication to academic excellence, co-curricular activities, leadership, and service tells a story. Each individual high school story unfolds from the first day of the freshman year and concludes upon graduation. We are committed to supporting our students throughout this journey and developing the confidence and stamina necessary to succeed in high school and beyond. Please visit the FHS website throughout the year for school news, updates, and information. Thank you so much for your kind and warm welcome; I am honored to be your Principal. Very best regards, Mrs. Banach

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Department News

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Social Studies 2

Health/Phys. Ed. 3

Math 3

Tech/Engineering 4

World Language 5

Visual/Performing Arts

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English 7

Special Education 8-9

Bilingual/ESL 9

Library 10

ADC 11

Cornerstone 12

RFL 13

Bridge 14

Announcements 15

For Seniors 16-17

Important Dates

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The Social Studies department had a terrific summer. Our students read a variety

of books such as 12 Years a Slave, The Jungle, In Our Defense, and Rise to Rebel-

lion. Other students experienced history this summer by visiting various local sites.

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As far as our teachers, we were busy with travel and professional development. Susan Corcoran attended Choices PD, Di Summer spent time updating the Peer Leadership calendar and curriculum, and Jon Marshall took three PD classes in-cluding Conflict in The New World, Native People's of America, and Military Lead-ers: Strategies and Philosophies. Finally, our World curriculum team spent lots of the summer rewriting and revising our curriculum maps using the Understanding by Design template with a focus on historical thinking skills. Our senior class advisors, Maria Sequeniza and Taylor Collins, spent lots of the summer organizing the successful Seniors Helping Fresh-men tours and buddies. The Social Studies department would also like to extend a huge welcome to Ellie Kaufman who will be joining our team. She comes highly recommended from Brandeis University. She has spent a year teaching humanities in New Hampshire and just finished up a second Master's at Bread Loaf in Vermont. Meghan Harrison will also join our department in a larger capacity. We are lucky to have her experi-ence and expertise with marginalized students as she moves into a full time role in our department! All in all we had a great summer and we are looking forward to a great school year.

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Health and Physical Education

The HPE department is off to a great start this fall! We welcomed Ed Mantie to the department. He is teaching both health and physical education classes. We were also fortunate to get Emily Viti full time teaching health for the department this year. During the summer, amidst summer school health and PE classes, we had a small contingent of folks work on updating our 10th grade health curriculum. We were able to work alongside middle school folks doing similar updates. We have added a new course to HPE this year. Two sections of Yoga 2 will be run second semester. We are happy to be able to offer additional venues for mindfulness and meditation within a standards based curriculum. HPE is looking forward to this school year and many new and continuing projects and partnerships.

Karen Strader and Mark Morabito did some summer work for ALBERT. They spent countless hours creating

multiple choice questions for an online program. They were required to write questions of varying difficulty

and set up (i.e. choose all that apply, multiple choice etc). They had to submit an answer key as well as an

explanation as to why each wrong answer was incorrect. They learned a great deal through this work and

plan to bring to the department this year.

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Students in the Introduction to Technology/Engineering class participated in the Marshmallow Challenge. Teams are given eighteen minutes to build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top.

This lesson serves as a fun introduction to the Engineering Design Process. Over the next few months, these students will rotate through the Tech Ed teachers and learn about our course offerings, including: Digital Graphics, Television, Engineer-ing Design, Electronics, Web Design and Digital Photography.

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World Languages

New/Returning Staff The World Languages Department welcomes several new staff members. Currently we have three visiting teachers from Spain. Ana Palacio-Erdozain, Estibaliz Vivanco and Luis Jimenez are teaching Italian and Spanish in our department. We also welcome Aiping Dong, our new Chinese teacher. Aiping will be teaching Chinese here at FHS as well as at King Elementary School. And finally we are delighted to welcome back French/Spanish teacher Karen Hennelly who was on leave last year. We are thrilled to have her back.

FHS Students Abroad

Over the summer several FHS students traveled abroad thanks to the Global Navigator Scholarships awarded to our students from The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). These scholarships are intended to open the world to students, helping them navigate across languages, connect with other cul-tures, and develop global competencies for thriving in today’s interconnected world. Students can choose from a variety of programs, including global entrepreneurship, marine ecology, public health, community de-velopment and cultural experiences. The following FHS students traveled with CIEE during the summer of 2017 and participated in the programs indicated.

We are also delighted to announce that the Global Navigator Scholarships has earmarked $25,000 in scholar-ship dollars for Framingham High School students to study abroad during the summer of 2018. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who elect to apply to the CIEE Summer High School Abroad programs will be con-sidered for the awards, based on both academic merit and financial need. Watch for materials and announce-ments regarding this opportunity and please encourage students to apply. There will be a parent information meeting about the summer 2018 CIEE travel scholarships October 3 at 6:30 in the FHS library. Anyone who is interested and cannot attend should contact Cheryl Jones (cjones@framingham.k12.ma.us).

Brooke Perreault Youth Development in Santiago, Dominican Republic

Ivy-Jolie Camacho Italian Language & Culture in Ferrara, Italy

Jennifer Milgram Education as a Human Right in Cape Town, South Africa

Julia Long Spanish Language & Chilean Culture in Valparaiso, Chile

Mason Matzker German Language & Culture in Berlin, Germany

Philip Matta Japanese Language & Pop Culture in Tokyo, Japan

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Fine & Performing Arts

Tickets for FHS Drama Company's production of Mary Poppins are

available now online at www.showtix4u.com. Performances

are November 10, 11, 17, 18 @ 7pm.

We have a representative for the Framingham State Working Assumptions Photogra-phy Exhibition! Hayley Maskell! Very excited. Here is the letter from the organization…

“I just sent out emails about work accepted into the show--Hayley Maskell's work will be

included! We are also printing a newsprint-type photo annual with a picture from each

"excellent" student, which will be ready by the time the show opens in November. All of the

MA students and teachers will be invited to the opening reception.”

On Saturday 9/16, the Framingham High School Marching Band competed at the NESBA (New England Scholastic Band Association) festival in Randolph, MA (5:30PM) This was the first time the band performed their entire show in public for the 2017 competitive season. This year's show, entitled "Be" is an exploration of the emo-tion behind our favorite Beethoven and Bernstein works. The band can be seen this fall at all FHS home football games and several NESBA festivals. Please visit fhsinstru-ments.weebly.com for more information.

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English Mr. Geoghegan was the Director of the FHS Summer School program for the seventh year in a row, and his English Department colleagues: Mr. Chancey, Ms. Falzone, Ms. Sicotte, Ms. McPherson, Ms. Wood, and Ms. Joy all taught Summer School classes. Along with Mr. Ocampo, Ms. Fischer worked as an aide for students with autism at the Extended School Year program at Barbieri Elementary School. Here's a photo of her holding a Chinchilla on "Curious Creatures" day. They brought a turtle, a rabbit, a chinchilla, a snake, an alligator, a tarantula, and even a flying squirrel for the students to pet.

Mr. Pimentel went fishing this summer and enjoyed a bountiful catch!

Ms. Anza started her Master's degree program in the Education Department at Framingham State University. Mr. Eliot finished up his Master’s degree in Organizational Management from Endicott College this summer. Ms. Jamieson, Ms. Fischer, and Ms. Anza took Ms. Courchesne’s graduate course called “Teaching Narrative Point of View” online through Framingham State. They all loved the course, and Ms. Courchesne, our school librarian and former teacher of English in our department, is offering it again this fall. Ms. Sicotte and Ms. Conroy received graduate credits for planning and creating their own units and lessons online through Dominican University of California in a course called “Maximize Student Success Through En-hanced Instructional Design.” The English Department said farewell to Ms. Lima, who became an assistant principal in Mansfield, to Ms. Wood, who became the ELA Department Head at Fuller Middle School, to Mr. Torbert, who moved to Arizona, and to Ms. Fraker. We welcomed Ms. Murphy, Ms. Edwards, Mr. Compton, and Ms. Weis as the newest members of our FHS English Department.

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s The special education department welcomes Helen Choe, English teacher in the Phoe-nix Program, Stewart McKenzie, Support Teacher transferred from the math depart-ment, Melissa Stoller Special Education math teacher, Edna Palafox Assistant teacher, Joy Zingarelli 1:1 Aide, and we welcome back Carolyn Blackham. We are also pleased to announce that Kurt Fusaris is full time at FHS. This year we are also starting a new program for EL students that need significant academic support. On September 25, we will welcome a bilingual special educator Emilio Cabanas. Once Emilio starts, the pro-gram will be completely up and running.

Last year, the department was awarded a Secondary Transition Systemic Improvement Grant. A group of educators worked through the summer on implementing the grant with a focus on person centered planning and the provision of high-quality. Individual-ized transition assessment. WIth the incoming Freshman class, we will administer a baseline transition assessment. The assessment will be administered again at the end of grade 10, and for a final time at the end of grade 12. This will help special educators and other service providers identify skills which need to be strengthened with the ulti-mate goal of having students are prepared as possible for life after high school.

The grant also focused on creating more opportunities for students to work on voca-tional skills while in school. This month the Learning Center has had a “soft” opening of a student run coffee shop for faculty. The shop is named Flyer Fuel and Mrs. Mains and her class have done a wonderful job setting it up. Eventually, the service will be opened up to all departments in the high school. Through the coffee shop, the students are able to practice functional life skills and vocational skills. The coffee is made and delivered each morning, usually during either first or second period. An order form is sent out each afternoon for the next morning.

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Special Education, Cont. In Phoenix Modern Art class, students study different art movements and how they relate to the social, political and economic times of that era. There is also a primary focus on particular artists and their per-sonal struggles and how these struggles are expressed through their art. These projects are two student's version of a Frida Khalo self-portrait.

Bilingual/ESL Summer was a busy time for the Bilingual Department bringing lots of change. Mark Spillane accepted the Bilingual/ESL Department Head position at Fuller Middle School where he quickly set to work hiring for mul-tiple openings. Meanwhile at FHS we were doing the same. We would like to welcome a number of new staff members. Daniel DeJesus DeJesus is our new Spanish speaking Math teacher. Linda Flueckiger has joined Hannya Lord on the SLIFE team. Tanya Bogaty and Carissa Schutz are our new ESL teachers, and Zamira Carroll has returned to the Two Way program teaching Spanish Language and Literature. Also, Glenda Espinoza from Walsh Middle School was appointed to the new position of grade 6-12 Department Head for the Two Way program and Joseph Santiago, the Fuller ESL coach, has begun working with faculty at FHS three days a week. At this time the Bilingual/ESL program has 286 students on our rosters. We expect this number to fluctuate as students move in and out of the District. As part of a District wide initiative following the state mandated SEI endorsement program, many of the intermediate level students are being integrated into content classes. The FHS faculty has embraced this initiative and welcomed our Bilingual students into classes across all disciplines. Many teachers have reached out to Joe Santiago and the ESL staff for support. We are excited to see our Bilingual students making progress in an integrated setting and look forward to work-ing with all of you.

Important information from MIRA on DACA. PLEASE READ!

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FHS Library

The FHS Library's Back-to-School display, featuring plates decorated by every member of the FHS staff, answering the questions,

"W\hat do you teach?" and "What do you learn?"

The new books are in! The Library added 502 new books and DVDs to its collection this fall. In the 2016-2017 school year, we circulated 3,909 items to FHS Faculty and Staff members, in addition to the 5,293 hits on FHS's eBook collection and 55,105 articles accessed from our databases. Happy reading!

Check out the options for after

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Thank you to FHS Library TA Ellie Pappas for creating this

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ADC Monthly Newsletter

Welcome Back! My name is Cal MacKinnon and I am the Director of the Academic Development

Center. Prior to this, I taught US history and AP Psychology in the History Department. I am really

looking forward to working with all of you, and I hope that the ADC can be a useful resource for

you. I will be sending out the monthly ADC newsletters to keep everyone updated on what is

happening in the ADC!

What’s NeW

in the ADC?

ADC “Flyers”

These “Flyers” are students who

are currently not tutoring a

student and are available to

be a resource for your class-

room.

The vision is that these students

can help students with writing

or large projects. Basically

any sort of activity that could

use another helper in the

classroom.

Please note: These students are

not to be used as TA’s and

they should not be grading or

working on individual pro-

jects of the teacher.

If you would like a “Flyer” for

your classroom, please call

the ADC at x27741 and IF a student is available, we will

send them your way!

Shared Folders and Tu-

tor Logs

If you have a student that is being

tutored in the ADC, you can ex-

pect:

An email introducing the tutor

and who he or she is tutoring in

your class

Having a folder shared with you that will contain tutor logs

Email reminders to check and

provide feedback to the tutor log Students occasionally are tutored

in many subjects and your log may

not be updated daily if your class

is not the priority class.

What’s happeNiNg

Now?

Currently, our tutors are

using the ADC as a study

hall as we wait for sched-

ules to become more sta-

ble.

We do need more tutors!

If you know of students

who are looking to TA or

fill their study, please di-

rect them to the ADC! You

can remind them that be-

ing an ADC tutor looks

really good on their col-

lege applications and

more importantly, it is an

extremely rewarding ex-

perience to be able to help

your peers!

Once the scheduling period

slows down, we will begin

our three day training ses-

sion of tutors and we are

hoping to have the tutoring

start by September 11th!

Stay tuned for Work Study Seminar Updates

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The Cornerstone Program is starting its second year as an academic support and credit recovery program for retained students at Framingham High School. This year the program serves 30 students who have not earned enough credits to move along with their grade, but are nonetheless focused on resetting and making this school year one that sees them closer to their diploma! The mission of the program is to help students overcome the obstacles that led to their retention in an individual-ized, flexible, engaging, and supportive environment that holds them accountable for their success. Participation in the program gives students the chance to earn credit for engaging in their school work as well as the opportunity for credit recov-ery, while they work to explore their post-secondary options. As Cornerstone con-tinues to expand as a service to FHS students off-track towards graduation, the goal is for it to evolve into a program that allows FHS to innovatively and flexibly sup-ports at-risk students. Students work with the program director, Christopher Bowen, as their primary liai-son at Framingham High School for issues relating to behavior, attendance, and academic engagement. He coordinates the following supports for Cornerstone stu-dents: Homeroom: Cornerstone students have homeroom in the Library so that they

do not need to join a homeroom with students in the grade below them. This also gives the program director the opportunity to check in with students first thing each morning and proactively address attendance issues.

Communication with Stakeholders: Students and families will receive regular updates on academic performance, upcoming assignments, and missing work. The program director serves as a liaison who facilitates communication between the student, teachers, administrator, support team, and families. This also includes collaboration with social worker Anna Greenberg who will provide social-emotional support to students (and families) as needed.

Goal Setting: Students will work with the program director and social worker to set, reflect on, and achieve goals in the areas ­of academics, attendance, be-havior, and social­-emotional learning. To help students achieve these goals, the program director will connect students with resources throughout the build-ing (social­ workers, career counselors, tutors, etc.) so that they can also de-velop and practice their own self advocacy skills.

Cornerstone Seminar: Students will earn 0.25 credit each term for participa-tion in Cornerstone Seminar, where they complete school work and work to-wards developing competencies in the areas of Cultural Diversity, Financial Lit-eracy, and Post-Secondary Planning.

Restorative Practices: Students will benefit from belonging to a community that takes a restorative community-based approach to discipline, focusing on responses to wrongdoing that help students take ownership for behavior, learn from their mistakes and improve the relationships they have at FHS.

Flexible Scheduling and Credit Recovery: The program will advocate for increased flexibility in helping students progress towards graduation, including blended learning, credit recovery, and experiential learning based on students individual needs and interests.

After-school Program: The program director will coordinate an after-school program to help students keep current with academic work. Depending on the student and in consultation with the vice­ principal and family, participation in this after-school program may be mandatory.

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The Resiliency for Life Program at Framingham High School has undergone significant changes to start the 2017-2018 school year. Instead of a program director and three teacher liaisons, Dr. Tremblay decided to keep one teacher liaison, Mark Goldschmidt, and add a licensed social worker, Anna Greenberg, to help students with their social/emotional struggles.

We are still here to support at-risk students within Framingham High School and we will still seek a great deal of faculty feedback so that we can help our students address their challenges and move toward achieving their individual goals. In past years we would have welcomed in a new group of about 15-18 freshmen over the summer, but this year we felt it prudent to wait until the dust settles with the new staffing model before we grow our numbers.

There are currently 45 students in the program, all of whom were in Resil-iency last year, and we expect them to represent themselves and our pro-gram well and to value our tenets of Respect, Self-Advocacy, Honesty, Ac-countability and a Teachable Spirit. It’s been inspiring to have conversations with students who have already committed to improving upon their perform-ances last year and who attend school each day despite numerous anchors that could deter or distract them.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with questions or concerns about students and feel free to visit us in room E119, -Mark and Anna

Resiliency For Life

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THE BRIDGE PROGRAM

The beginning of the 2017-18 school year has been very exciting for us here as the first year of The Bridge Program at Framingham High School begins. The Bridge Program will provide academic, social and emotional support for students re-entering school after hospitalization or other lengthy ab-sence from school due to mental health issues, as well as new registrants in the school identified as having multiple complex needs. The mission of the program is to provide a holistic, short-term, wrap-around approach to assisting these students in achieving academic success at school despite these obstacles. To give some historical perspective, until this year, only the Clinical Care Coordinator was assisting these particular students. The Bridge Program now consists of a Director, School Psy-chologist and Teacher. School transition programs have been growing throughout high schools in Massachusetts, especially given the rising rates in anxiety and depression among adolescents. The Bridge Program staff at Framingham High School is looking forward to joining the ranks of the many school transition programs that have had a direct impact on improving academic success for these students! Peter DeSimone Director (508)782-7755 Since 2014 Peter has worked at Framingham High School with students returning from psychiatric hospitalization following the model of the BYRT program at Brookline High School. Prior to working at FHS Peter worked for over 20 years as a social worker and supervisor at both the Department of Children and Families and the Children and Family Law division of the State Public Defenders Office. The majority of his career as a social worker has been working with adolescents and their families here in Framingham.

Christine Gavrilles Psychologist (508)782-7482 Christine has worked as a School Psychologist in public education since 1997. Prior to coming to Framingham High School in 2004, she worked at several Massachusetts schools grades K-12. In addition to her skills completing comprehensive psychological evaluations of students and offering counseling supports, Christine has served as a 504 Coordinator. Nicole McCormack Teacher (508)782-7778 From 2011-2017, Nicole worked as an English teacher and Special Educator within the Phoenix Program at Framingham High School. She has also coached girl’s soccer since 2012, at all three levels. As a special educator, she has worked with students and their families to develop plans based on student needs and abilities.

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To: Parents, Guardians, and Students in the Class of 2019 and 2020

Framingham High School will administer the PSAT to all students in the Class of 2019 and 2020 on the morning of

Wednesday, October 11th. College Board, the organization which develops both the PSAT and SAT, charges schools for

each test, so we ask that families register for the test by paying $16. Please make checks out to Framingham High School

or payment may be made in cash. Upon payment, students will receive the PSAT/NMSQT Student Guide. Please bring

your payment to Mrs. Pagano in the main office by October 1st.

Students in the Class of 2021 will attend Future’s Day and students in the Class of 2018 with participate in workshops

including the Nuts & Bolts of the College Application, Naviance/Common Application, and Introduction to Financial Aid.

PSAT/NMSQT

Supports College and Career Planning

Students get an interactive score report with answer explanations, their projected SAT score, and feed-

back on their readiness for 20+AP courses. And, they are connected to resources they can use to

search for colleges and explore majors and careers.

Provides free Official SAT Practice powered by Khan Academy® Students can get a personalized SAT study plan based on their PSAT/NMSQT® performance by link-

ing their College Board and Khan Academy accounts. Khan Academy practice can also help students

prepare for the PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 because of the close alignment of the tests

(satpractice.org).

Prepares Students for the SAT® On average, students who take the PSAT/NMSQT®

score 146 points higher on the SAT than those who do not,

and students who take the PSAT/NMSQT more than once

score even higher.

Provides Entry into Scholarship Programs The PSAT/NMSQT provides entry into National Merit

Scholarship Corporation competitions as well as other

scholarship and recognition programs,

such as the National Hispanic Recognition Program for Junior students.

Editor Susan Petroni at the Framingham Source is looking for interns. Please contact her at 508-315-7176 if you are interested.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Varsity and JV Field Hockey teams are selling short- and long- sleeved t-shirts as a fund-

raiser. Please click here to access the order form.

Important information from MIRA on DACA. PLEASE READ!

The 2017-18 late bus schedule is now available.

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The College & Career Center, and Partnerships for a Skilled Workforce, are now located in the

Library

CLASS OF 2018 CAR WASH—Sunday, October 1 10am-2pm @ CJ’s

College Visits

9/25/2017

8:00 AM Boston University

9/27/2017

8:00 AM University of Maine

9:00 AM Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology

10:00 AM Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

11:00 AM Dean College

9/29/2017

12:00 University of Hartford

Seniors: Click here for upcoming college visits. The most current information is in your Naviance account. Please re-

member to register at least 24 hours in advance to meet with the college representatives. See Ms. Wong in the library

if you have questions.

FINANCIAL AID NIGHT

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For Seniors

Financial Aid Night is scheduled to take place on Thursday, October 5th 2017, 6:00pm -8:00pm, in the FHS

Auditorium. The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) will be coming to present. The

presentation will be offered in both English & Spanish. It will break the college financial aid process down

into straightforward concepts that every family can understand. MEFA will explain how financial aid works

and will offer strategies for smoothly navigating the college financing process from beginning to end.

*The English presentation will take place in the FHS Auditorium and the Spanish presentation will take

place in the FHS Library.

La noche de información para la solicitud de ayuda financiera para la universidad está prevista para el jueves

5 de Octubre de 2017 de 6:00pm a 8:00pm en la escuela Framingham High School. La Entidad de Finan-

ciamiento Educativo de Massachusetts (MEFA) ofrecerá la presentación en inglés y en español. Hablarán de-

talladamente acerca del proceso de ayuda financiera para la universidad, usando conceptos sencillos que cada

familia podrá entender. MEFA explicará cómo funciona la ayuda financiera y mostrará estrategias que le ayu-

darán a recorrer el proceso de principio a fin sin problemas.

*La presentación en inglés se realizará en el Auditorio de la escuela FHS y la presentación en español se

llevará a cabo en la biblioteca de la escuela FHS.

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Mark Your Calendars!

9/27 SAT Late Registration deadline (10/7 test)

10/1 Class of 2018 Carwash 10:00am-2:00pm @ CJ’s

10/2 “Nametags” Educational Program @ 7pm FHS Auditorium

10/5 SAT Registration deadline (11/4 test)

10/5 Financial Aid Night @6pm FHS Auditorium

10/6 ACT Late Registration deadline (10/28 test)

10/6 Progress Reports

10/7 SAT

10/9 Columbus Day—NO SCHOOL

10/11 Futures Day

10/11 PSAT

10/16 PTBO Meeting 7pm

10/19 Junior College Planning 7pm

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Mark Your Calendars!

For any sophomore, junior or senior that missed the Balfour representative this week can

go to www.balfour.com or call 800-972-5398 to place your order.

The Health Professions Recruitment & Exposure Program (HPREP) is a free science and medicine outreach program hosted by Harvard Medical School that aims to recruit high school students (grades 9-12) from un-derrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds into science, medicine, and public health by equipping you with the excitement, knowledge, skills, confidence, and community necessary to pursue education and ca-reers in these fields. This is an excellent opportunity to explore interactive science lessons across a number of topics and to work with mentors and educators in the field.The deadline to apply for the 2017-2018 pro-gram is October 1 - please visit http://harvardHPREP.submittable.com for more information and to apply.