The spring Topic Tuesday webinar series will begin January 12th and will include topics on: How to Interact with ACT, Attainment Goal for Mississippi, Best Practices for Working with Homeless Youth, Colorblindness & Microaggressions, Lessons Learned on Implementing a College & Career Readiness class, and more. Click here for dates and registration, all webinars are at 10 am and recordings will be provided to everyone who registers, up to 1 CEU credit is available. National Public Radio's Student Podcast Challenge: College Edition invites college students around the country to create a podcast — about anything — and compete for a chance to have the work appear on NPR. Submissions open December 1. Find more information here. Get2College LIVE will be on Wednesday afternoons via Facebook and Instagram. Your students can check us out and join in the December discussions on Mississippi financial aid. Reach Higher and the Common App are partnering with the National Postsecondary Strategy Institute to launch the Power of Hope Awards. Awards will be presented to school districts that have engaged school counselors in leadership roles to improve student college and career success outcomes. Learn more on Common App's blog and apply here, applications are due December 15. SACAC announces annual conference April 2021 will be host a virtual conference in 2021 that will be free of charge to all SACAC members as well as non-member public school counselors, HBCU admission officers, and those who work for CBOs. More information can be found here. Get2College "FAFSA Fridays" High school seniors can schedule an appointment to complete the FAFSA with Get2College on December 4th, 11th, and 18th. Make an appointment here. Share with your students why completing the FAFSA is important with our "Why FAFSA" Series Did you know that ma ny "tuition guarantee" programs (from Board of Supervisors, endowed scholarship fund, or the Sumners Grant) for students in communities around Mississippi require the FAFSA to be completed? Make sure students complete their FAFSA to maximize funds for college. | | |  Check out SACAC's latest blog post here on supporting transgender and transitioning students through the college admission process.
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Get to know all the public colleges in Mississippi with the new Get2College YouTube channel 3D videos! These 3D video produced by SeeBoundless offers a quick introduction of all features for the public colleges in Mississippi have to offer students. And, to get the full effect, watch it with 3D googles here! | | 
 The Hechinger Report highlighted this fall's decline in FAFSA completion nationwide and reached out to Get2College for innovative ways to combat helping student submit the FAFSA during a pandemic. Read the article | | | |
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