I just wanted to send out a reminder about this week's RCMEA Scholarship meeting.  We will be meeting this Wednesday at 4:15pm where we've been in past years.  I believe it's called "Montebello Estates" - 75 Montebello Rd. in Suffern (right across from Suffern Middle School).  Look for the big mansion. :)  We're not sure if we can be in the conference room or not...but we'll try for there first (walk in and it's the first room on the left side).  If we can't be in there, we will meet in our music library downstairs.

In case you can't make the meeting, just respond to this and let me know if you're still able to give us feedback to use in the meeting.

Please review the information from my last email and let me know if you have any issues accessing the applicants' materials.  Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Tracy

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 9:27 AM RCMEA Secretary <secretaryrcmea@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!  Thank you so much for volunteering to be on the RCMEA Scholarship Committee.  We really appreciate your time and input, and hope that you find it worth your effort to reward some super talented high schoolers in Rockland!

While we have been zooming our RCMEA meetings this year, we hope to be able to meet in person for a change for this scholarship meeting.  If you can join us on Wednesday, May 12th at 4:15pm (place TBA), we would love to see you!  It would only be about 8 of us, at most, if we are all able to come.  If you would rather zoom in or can't make the time at all, please let me know, and we would still love your input on the applicants!

I apologize in advance for the long email - no need to read it all until you're reviewing the applications. :)

We have 6 candidates this year, and I have collected their materials and hopefully organized them in a way that makes them easy to review.  Please read the instructions below and let me know if you have any questions or can't find/access something.  And sorry if these directions are common sense - I never know who's comfortable with Google stuff and who's not. :)

1.  Please click here to access the 2021 Scholarship Submissions folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FT3-kMrF5XPzYJFzBJo8bkNLuYMcXTrL?usp=sharing

2.  First, please open the RCMEA Scholarship Rubric 2021 (blue icon) or click here to access it directly.  I suggest printing this page so you can refer to it as you go through the applications, and you can make notes on it so that you remember things for our meeting.

3.  Next, please open the Google Form labeled RCMEA Senior Music Scholarship Application 2021 (purple icon).  If you get a message about having low drive storage, just press "continue" (sorry, I try to fix this each year and can't seem to get it to stop telling me that!).  Then click on the "Responses" tab, and then the "Individual" tab.  You'll see that the first of 5 applications listed here is for Lila Villasenor - you can scroll down and read her entire application and view all of her links and scanned materials.  When you are ready to move to the next applicant, just click on the arrow on top to move to student 2 of 5.