PHS School Counseling Department

In the school counseling department, we have been discussing ways to get more information out to Pikesville High School Parents. This Smore is how we are going to try to share more announcements. If you have feedback, please be sure to share with Mr. Goldman.

Whether you want to learn about the Early College Access Program to take courses while in high school or you are considering attending CCBC full-time after graduation, attend a virtual information session Dec 9 and/or 15.

Information is at https://www.ccbcmd.edu/infosessions

Additional Resources:

Campus Tour Info- Register to attend one of our evening Thursday Tours

Academic Catalog-Learn about CCBC's available programs and requirements

Academic Calendar- Find information on class start dates and deadlines

How to Pay for College- Learn about the various ways to fund your education

US Army - December 8 at 9:30am

Otis College of Art & Design - December 17 at 9:30am

Students go to https://id.naviance.com, use Clever to sign in, search for Pikesville High, then sign in using bcps/microsoft credentials. Be sure to update your personal email address by clicking "about me," then "my account," and clicking the edit link within the contact pane.

Back To The Future:

How To Use Your Emotional Baggage to Your Advantage

A Virtual Workshop for Baltimore County Families

December 8, 2021

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Presented by:

Ezra Buchdahl, LCSW-C, CRCCPA

Administrator, St. Vincent’s Villa and Villa Maria School

How to help parents use their own emotional baggage to their advantage in parenting children with behavioral health issues

The workshop is FREE!

To register go to this website:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YBWTY3P

OR call 667-600-3074 or email FamilyNavigator@cc-md.org

Link will be sent out the day of the workshop

Course Registration for the 2022-23 school year will begin in science classes on December 13. All 9th-11th grade students will meet with their school counselors in January to review their course requests. Parents are urged to attend the December 9 PTSA meeting to ask questions. Mr. Goldman and Mr. Banach will post all relevant information on the PHS website so families can review the options together.

School Counselors will visit math classes from December 7 to December 20 to help students navigate the College Board website, access their PSAT scores, and discuss what to do about their scores in the context of each individual's post-secondary plans.

Are you discouraged? Do you need some inspiration? Please watch this 3-minute video about a young man who graduated while homeless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32iaLFbnS3U

Regardless of where your senior is continuing their education after high school, it is important to apply for federal and state financial aid, using the FAFSA, at www.studentaid.gov. The deadline for completing FAFSA in order to get Maryland state aid is March 1. See our recorded financial aid info presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5qVzqToQ4A

Once FAFSA is complete, make your MDCAPS account - the Maryland Higher Education Commission uses MDCAPS for students to accept their state grants and also apply for other state scholarships.

One student from every BCPS high school will get a $3000 scholarship. Deadline is February 1. Information and application are at https://apply.mykaleidoscope.com/scholarships/FirstFinancialFCUScholarship2022

Attention Seniors!! Ordering Extended!

Don’t Delay, Order Your Cap and Gown Today!

Go to Jostens.com to order your cap and gown today. The cap and gown are only $8.05 plus tax. You must order by midnight on Monday, December 20 to get this amazing price. Jostens offers many great packages for seniors, but you are only required to purchase the cap and gown.

Go to www.Jostens.com to place your order. Select find my school/group store. Enter Pikesville High. Scroll down to the graduation tile and select shop. Scroll down to shop graduation products and select shop now. Scroll down to cap and gown and select cap, gown, and tassel for $8.05. Complete the form and proceed to check-out. All seniors will be wearing the purple cap and gown. Your cap and gown will be delivered to Pikesville High and will be distributed to you in May.

Please reach out to Mr. Kreller via email or Schoology messenger with any questions.

Mr. Kreller

Graduation Coordinator

dkreller@bcps.org

As of December 3, 96.9% of our seniors have met with their school counselor to review their six-year plan. We gave them copies of their transcript, articulated what credits are required to graduate, discussed their post-secondary plans and how to achieve them, and checked on their mental health.

As of December 3, we have sent 705 transcripts on behalf of 102 students to the colleges where they are applying. Each time a senior gives us a copy of their acceptance letter, we update their status in Naviance, and post their good news in the hallway outside of our office.

After submitting college applications, requesting transcripts and letters of recommendation, and completing the FAFSA, students are encouraged to apply for scholarships.

BCPS's office of school counseling keeps an updated list of regional or national scholarship opportunities in Naviance. Go to the colleges section, and click on "scholarship list." Keep your own list of scholarships from that main list that seem appropriate for you, so you can cross them off once you've applied.

Just as with college applications, if you need something from a counselor or teacher for a scholarship application, please make that request at least two weeks in advance of the deadline.

December:

• Stephen J. Brady Stop Hunger Scholarship - deadline 12/5/21
• Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program - deadline 12/7/21

• Science Ambassador Scholarship (full tuition) - deadline 12/13/21

• LEDA Scholars Program - (for Juniors only) - deadline 12/14/21

• Foot Locker Scholar Athletes - deadline 12/17/21

• **NEW** AFCEA Freedom Scholarship - deadline 12/20/21

• **NEW** Aspiring Nurse Scholarship - deadline 12/31/21

January:

• HBCU College Fair Scholarship 2021 - deadline 1/6/22
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Scholarship - open now - deadline 1/10/22
• **NEW**Grace Erline Memorial Girls Gone Great Scholarship - deadline 1/11
• **NEW** Blaze Your Own Trail Scholarship - deadline 1/14

March:

• **NEW** ABC Greater Baltimore's 2022 LOGIC Scholarship - deadline 3/1/22

• Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Scholarship - deadline 3/12/22

All links that were previously for meeting rooms are now linked to recordings of the sessions.

This includes both the breakout sessions and the college presentations. Some sessions were not recorded or the presenter wasn’t able to attend. Students interested in those schools are encouraged to visit the admissions page of those colleges and/or view the resources attached.

The “Virtual Resource Table” (a PDF) is still available at the top of the Smore and includes links to all of the HBCUs who were invited to this event.

Please promote this resource to students and families! The link to the smore is: https://www.smore.com/kydtc and the virtual resource table is attached below.

The Education Foundation announced earlier this week that 24 book scholarships of $500 each will be awarded to high school seniors who participated in the 5th annual BCPS-HBCU Virtual College Fair. BCPS students who attended the fair and wish to apply, please visit the Naviance scholarship page for more information and the application.

To be eligible to apply for the HBCU book scholarship, a student must:

• Graduate from a BCPS high school with a minimum unweighted GPA of 2.5
• Be accepted & plan to matriculate at one of the HBCU's who participated in the college fair.
• Complete the application and essay prompt.
• Letter of recommendation from your school counselor.

*Students MUST have attended the BCPS HBCU Virtual College Fair to qualify.*

Deadline to apply is January 7, 2022 by 11:59 p.m.

ABC Greater Baltimore is proud to announce that the 2022 LOGIC Scholarship application is now available. (Click here to apply online.)

L.O.G.I.C., Ladies Operating for Growth In Construction (formerly WABC), represents the interests of women within the construction industry and assists with increasing the quality and availability to women that will promote a positive image to other women within and outside of the industry.

Scholarship awards are available to female high school, trade school or college students planning to pursue construction related fields of study in post-high school education. The money awarded will be given as a cash gift to the student.

DEADLINE to apply is March 1, 2022.

For more information contact subcommittee chair, Connie Hess (chess@usbne.com) or staff liaison, Danielle Hardy (dhardy@abcbaltimore.org).

Printed application with rubrics can be found here: https://www.abcbaltimore.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LOGIC-Scholarship_2022.pdf

My name is Lizzy Jackson Fleischmann and I am the High School Coordinator for the Summer Internship Program with the NIH National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program (NIA IRP) Training Office. The NIA IRP is located on the campus of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The NIA IRP training office has internship opportunities for students interested in biomedical science, biomedical engineering, or bioinformatics. Students must be 17 years old before June 15, 2022 to be eligible.

Last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer program was held virtually. While there has not been a final decision on whether to be virtual again this summer, we are hopeful to be back in person for the 2022 summer. There will be two question and answer sessions that your students may be interested in attending:

Question and Answer sessions:

December 7, 2021, at 7:00 pm (ET):
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2713634698728219149

December 29, 2021, at 2:00 pm (ET):
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4229319174198852109

For more information on the High School Summer Internship Program please visit: High School Summer Internship Program (HS-SIP) - Training Programs in the Biomedical Sciences - Office of Intramural Training & Education at the National Institutes of Health (nih.gov)

For more information on the NIA IRP please visit: https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/labs

I would love the opportunity to discuss the program with you and your students, so please let me know if you would like more information. I have attached a flyer describing our high school summer program and would appreciate if you could distribute, or display, the handout in your school. We want to get the word out to students who may be interested and benefit from participation in the future. If you or any interested students would like to learn more about the program please feel free to email or call me. I would also be willing to speak to your students directly, if you think they may be interested.

Please forward this information to any students who might be interested in applying to the Summer Internship Program.

Elizabeth Jackson Fleischmann, MS NIH/NIA/IRP [C]

Recruitment and Outreach Specialist

National Institute on Aging/IRP

Office of the Scientific Director- Training Office

251 Bayview Boulevard, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21224

(667) 205-3527

The Coolidge Scholarship is an annually awarded, full-ride, presidential scholarship that covers a student’s tuition, room, board, and expenses for four years of undergraduate study.

This one-of-a-kind scholarship may be used at any accredited college or university in the U.S.

https://coolidgescholars.org/

Information and application available at https://cos.bcps.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=9046883&pageId=66739910

Pikesville High has had TWO SMOBs in the last ten years. Considering there are 25 high schools, this shows we have leaders among us!

The Hamilton Award recognizes young people for their academic, personal, service and entrepreneurial accomplishments; forty students across the nation are selected annually as winners of the Hamilton Award and subsequently enrolled in AHS’ five-year Empowerment Program.

https://www.hamiltonscholars.org/

Information and application available at https://cos.bcps.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=9046883&pageId=66739910

Pikesville High has had TWO SMOBs in the last ten years. Considering there are 25 high schools, this shows we have leaders among us!

As of December 3, 42.6% of our ninth graders have met with their school counselor to review their six-year plan: check on their academics and mental health, and begin to discuss post-secondary planning.

Main phone number: 443-809-1219

Department secretary - Ms. Michelle Harrison mharrison2@bcps.org

Students last names A-F - Ms. Debra James, djames4@bcps.org

Students last names G-M - Ms. Danyelle Jones djones21@bcps.org

Students last names N-Z & Department Chair - Mr. Jeremy Goldman jgoldman@bcps.org

College & Career - TBD

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Twitter: @PHSCouns

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