Guidance, Career, & Volunteer News
East Longmeadow High School
January 8, 2024
College CORNER
FAFSA: The 2024-25 FAFSA is now available! Complete it as soon as you’re able at fafsa.gov. If you need help with the FAFSA, there are virtual events offering one-on-one expert assistance. Click below for more details and to register:
FAFSA Festival: Wed, Jan 24th, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Log in anytime during this two-hour block to be paired with a financial aid expert
FAFSA Day events: Join a Monday session offered once a month from February until May to get your FAFSA questions answered
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Upcoming MEFA Webinars:
College Admissions, 1/17 @ 630pm & 2/28 @ 630pm
Learn About Tuition Break, 1/22 @ 5pm
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Six Keys To Finding A Good College Fit, 2/7 @ 630pm
Career CLUSTER SPOTLIGHT
Career CLUSTERS & PATHWAYS
Career clusters are groups of related types of work. They give you an easy way to explore different kinds of jobs within one broad category. Start with one of the clusters—like health care or construction—to learn what it involves, current trends, and the different careers it offers.
It’s often easier to change jobs and advance within a career cluster that share similar knowledge, skills, and interests. Identifying with a cluster can help you build your career and choose credentials—such as a college degree, specialized training, or certifications—that will qualify you for a variety of different, but related, jobs.
community service INFORmation
student hours log - graduation requirement - volunteer ideas - documentation form
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To view the "student hours log" students must be signed into their school gmail account
volunteer opportunities
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More ideas..."LITERACY"
As a literacy volunteer, you’ll make a big impact — by reading to kids at a homeless shelter, to the elderly or the visually impaired. Organizing story hours at a library is a good idea, too; so are starting book drives, and helping young kids keep their reading skills sharp over the summer.
Here are some websites to get you started:
Public Library - Reading is Fundamental - Read for Literacy, Inc. - Little Free Library - American Library Association
Here are some student led projects:
Melissa leveraged her volunteer work with a national pet therapy organization to create a program that helps students at a local elementary school improve their literacy skills by having them read out loud to therapy dogs.
Adam has collected more than a ton of books over the past two years and shipped them to rural Alaskan communities that lack ready access to reading materials.
Annika collected 4,000 new and used books to start a "giving library" so that children and their families who visit a local medical center can get free books to take home and keep.
Allyson promotes the love of reading and writing in young students through a club she organized that sends high school students to elementary school classrooms to assist with reading activities.
