Week of April 3 2023
CLASS 2026 - 2025 - 2024
This week Wednesday we will focus on community colleges in the US, Foundation Programs in the UK and Australia and bridge programs within Yangon. These are pathways to universities for students who might not earn the IB diploma or for families who are looking for a less expensive alternative for university. See you on April 5. Please use this link to view the complete schedule and determine when you will join me.
Resource of the Week
SAT
Digital SAT Registration
Students can register now for the digital SAT.
Test Dates Registration Deadlines*
May 6, 2023 April 21, 2023
June 3, 2023 May 19, 2023
*Students who need to borrow a device for testing will need to register no later than 30 days before test day.
The earlier students download our digital testing app, Bluebook™, the more time they’ll have to prepare by taking a full-length practice test and studying with Official Digital SAT Prep on Khan Academy®. Remind your students that once they register, they’ll need to take these steps to get ready for test day.
UNIVERSITY VISITS
Community Colleges, Foundation Programs, Bridge Programs
Want to know alternative and much cheaper pathways to university? Did you know there are very good bridge programs a student can start in here in Yangon, then transfer to a university in the US or UK?
Date: April 5
Time: 5:30 pm
Place: ISY cafeteria
Form to fill out to request a specific university visit to ISY
April 5th 2023
Get a jumpstart on your college search with Bradley University!
Be our guest at a Junior Jumpstart Livestream featuring exclusive access to everything you need to know about the college application process. This is one hour you don't want to miss!
Junior Jumpstart Livestream
Thursday, April 6, 2023
5:30 - 6:30 am Myanmar time
Ritsumeikan University - Japan
Come attend our webinar on April 8th!
Japan is an excellent place to be a student - did you know that many Japanese universities offer undergraduate degree programs instructed in English? Did you know the average annual tuition fee for Japanese universities is less than 15,000 USD?
Saturday, April 8th
1 pm - 2 pm (JST)
Register, and we will send the recording.
Come attend our webinar and find out...
What you can learn at Ritsumeikan - English-medium Undergraduate Programs
Inquire directly to an admissions officer during the Q&A
Register today, and find out why you should come study at Ritsumeikan!
Upcoming VirtU-8 Virtual Events
We are continuing our virtual sessions this spring to engage high school freshman, sophomores, juniors, their parents, and counselors with programming helpful to the college-search process
Who are we? Your trusted and longtime colleagues from:
Chapman University in Orange, California
Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida
Northwestern University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida
Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee
Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California
University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida
Event Format
35-minute conversation with university representatives or-current students. It’s a great way to learn about our respective institutions.
25-minute virtual fair with the opportunity to talk with and ask questions of each institution, individually.
Registration for our events is for counselors, students, and parents. Click here to-register for one or multiple VirtU-8 events.-It’s a great format to learn about each school in an efficient, comfortable way!
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time (timezone converter)
Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time (timezone converter)
University Events Upcoming
Scholarship Opportunity
University Focus
After COVID, universities now provide things like a virtual tour, virtual visits and webinars about themselves. If you are researching universities and prefer to find out information via video format instead of trying to read through their online pages, go to their admissions site and look for visit us or contact us and you can usually find all the online resources.
Lakehead University's NEW Mechatronics Undergraduate Engineering Program
Lakehead is now one of six universities in the province and the first in Northern Ontario to offer a degree in Mechatronics Engineering.
Ranked as #1 in Canada for Undergraduate Engineering by Times Higher Education 2022, Lakehead is a proud leader in engineering education.
Lakehead's six undergraduate engineering programs include: Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, and now Mechatronics Engineering.
Completing the Mechatronics Engineering undergraduate program will provide students with an engineering degree as well as an engineering technology diploma in only 4 years, including an option to pursue a BEng/MBA double degree.
The first intake for Mechatronics will be in September 2023 for the Thunder Bay campus exclusively.*
What is Mechatronics?
In Mechatronics, your students will learn to design computer-controlled electromechanical systems for robotics, prosthetics, UAVs, and next-generation additive manufacturing.
One of the fastest-growing fields in engineering, Mechatronics is the design of robotics, control systems, and electromechanical systems. This multi-disciplinary branch of engineering is at the intersection of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, and Computer Science.
Mechatronics allows students to integrate multiple engineering disciplines into one rather than thinking in silos.
This will enable students to think from the perspective of a much wider engineering system.
Our BEng Mechatronics Engineering program has been designed to prepare students to create technologies that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
With sustainability at its core, this unique program integrates business, law, and public safety into the learning experience, giving students a deeper and broader insight to accompany their engineering expertise.
Lakehead's Mechatronics students will be pioneers.
Students will make their mark as the first of many generations of Lakehead mechatronics engineering alumni to come, with endless opportunities to enrich their education through co-operative education, entrepreneurship, undergraduate research, hands-on learning experiences, clubs, and more.
Combine Mechatronics with an MBA.
Lakehead University is the only Canadian program that allows for the concurrent study of Engineering and the MBA. In year three of the Bachelor of Engineering program, students can begin courses in their MBA.
Learn more about Lakehead's Mechatronics Engineering
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