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The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) co-hosted with the Delmarva Education Foundation (DEF) a four-hour workshop entitled, “Counseling for Post-High School Success: A Tools and Techniques Roundtable” on October 22^nd for twenty-six area high school counselors, from schools ranging from Georgetown DE to Oak Hall, VA and from Newark, MD to East New Market, MD.

 

Public and private high school counselors gathered to share answers to questions as part of helping student set and reach their post-high school goals.  Touching upon questions such as ”How do you encourage students to meet application deadlines?” and “How do you use technology to deliver services to students and parents?”, BJ Summers from CFES and Kat Harting with DEF shared their knowledge of college scholarship information available to schools and families.

 

Summers urged the participants to take full advantage of the more than 80 endowed college scholarships funded by local donors and managed by CFES.

 

Harting demonstrated the two free online searchable databases DEF maintains for both counselors and students.  Both are clearinghouses containing information about hundreds of additional scholarships targeted to students and the other database revealing a wide range of programs available for postsecondary education at institutions throughout the lower Delmarva Peninsula.  Harting said “use one to decide what to study and the other to fund money to study it.”

 

A roundtable discussion that followed was facilitated by Willie C. Jackson, Supervisor of Human Resources for Worcester County Public School.  Vicki Carter, Supervisor of Secondary Student Services for Somerset County Public Schools, worked with DEF and CFES staff to coordinate the event.

 

For more information, call Kat Harting at 410-219-3336 or B.J. Summers at 410-742-9911.