Weekly Newsletter

Newberg High School Newsletter          
           January 9, 2014

This week in Newberg Nation….

Welcome Back and Happy New Year - 2015!

FAFSA NIGHT

Plan on enrolling in college this coming year?  If so you won't want to miss this event:

Tuesday, January 13, there will be Financial Aid counselors from area colleges to help seniors and their parents complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). This open house style event runs from 3:30-6:30 pm with check in at the College and Career Center at NHS. ANY senior who has not completed the FAFSA by Tuesday should plan on attending this event.  Financial aid may be available to those students who do not live in stable housing at this time or who have been in foster care.  So when we say ALL seniors we mean ALL seniors.

There are two other really important events during this time, even those who have completed the FAFSA already.

Beginning at 4:30 there will be a presentation on Scholarships, with a focus on the OSAC scholarship

Beginning at 5:30- There will be a presentation on Scholarships for students and parents in Spanish.  See you on the 13th of January.  If you have any questions about FAFSA night please see your small school counselor. 

NHS College & Career Center:

All Sophmores & Juniors that took the PSAT received their test results, along with a parent letter to take home during Advisory this week.

Congratulations to senior Reagan Call on receiving the $1,000 Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship!

Other scholarship deadlines that are right around the corner include:  Gates Millennium (1/14/15), Kaiser Permanente Health Care Career (1/14/15, National Honor Society (1/26/15), and Better Business Bureau (1/30/15),  If you need help completing your applications or looking for more scholarship opportunities, please stop by the College and Career Center or visit our webpage.

Admissions representatives from I.T.T. Tech and Linfield College will be here next Thursday, Jan. 15th.  Sign up in the College and Career Center!

Internships are available at Newberg High School!
This is a great way to get started with a company that might lead into a paid position. Internships earn high school credit and also look great on college and scholarship applications. We have multiple positions available ranging from office work, retail, and museum tours to a senior activity coordinator. Please pick up an application from Ms. Peterson in the Silver School office.

There is a program with Providence Health System called Career Highlights. These are three hour mini courses focused on a specific health care career field. This qualifies as a Job Shadow needed for graduation. These events are on Saturdays and students need to provide their own transportation.

There is still space in the Radiation Oncology Career Highlight on Saturday, Jan. 24 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. This will actually be offered on the radiation oncology floor of the hospital!

 Registration for February Career Highlights began on Jan. 5th and will be open until spaces are filled. The February Career Highlights include:

·         Diagnostic Imaging on Saturday, Feb. 21 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center from  9 a.m.- noon.

·         Rehabilitation Services (physical therapy, speech and language pathology, occupational therapy, audiology) on Friday, Feb. 27 at Providence Portland Medical Center from 1-4 p.m.

REGISTER at: http://oregon.providence.org/our-services/c/career-highlights/

A big THANK YOU to Sherwood High School's Parent Advisory Council and Peter Sternkopf for inviting NHS students and parents to the inspirational presentation Wednesday night of Tony Salvatori from Intel on the latest innovations of our rapidly changing world. Intel and the SHS Parent Advisory Council generously donated 180 books titled "The Radical Flux" to Newberg High School. We are developing a great partnership to share these kinds of opportunities for students.

Good Luck to our Oregon Music Education All-State students
attending the OMEA Conference next weekend!

Newberg NationThoughts…

~Principal Risen

As Mark Twain indicates below we are all capable of pushing ourselves further than we ever imagined possible! This is one of the values of education, as education is one of the vehicles we use to teach that determination, grit and perseverance are all qualities one needs to be successful!

With a mere two weeks remaining in this semester I am reminded of our students that are struggling, confronted by the rigor of their educational demands, and hoping that they can find a way to be successful academically at the conclusion of this term.

I concur with Mr. Twain in this regard and would like to share his inspirational message with any of our students that may currently feel that they simply can’t make it! As Mr. Twain indicates below, you can!

You merely need to take those feelings and “do something for yourself” before this term expires. It is time for you to build your own hope through your actions, efforts and grit! It is time for you to finish this term strong, regardless of the obstacles that may be before you, and to “rally” as Mr. Twain calls it.

For the one thing about each of our individual educations is that they are truly the one gift that we can only give to ourselves! Finish strong you Flying Tigers, and give yourself this gift!

Flying Tigers…

“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.” 
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court