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FAC Weekly Update
January 5, 2024
Good Afternoon, FAC Family
Happy New Year! I hope that you and yours had a wonderful holiday break. We are so excited to be back with our students for the start of the second semester of the school year. Hang onto your hats - the next 5 months will go quickly!
Here's the latest from the halls of the FAC...
This Week's Student Leadership Lesson
3-2-1 Newsletter - Quotes from James Clear
3-2-1: The Source of Passion, Masters and Amateurs, and a Cure for Jealousy
3. "You will love whatever you pour your heart into. Passion follows commitment."
2. "The amateur does not know what to do. The master knows what not to do."
1. "Curiosity can empower you or impede you. Being curious and focused is a powerful combination. I define this combination as unleashing your curiosity within the domain of a particular task: asking questions about how things work, exploring different lines of attack for solving the problem, reading ideas from outside domains while always looking for ways to transfer the knowledge back to your main task, and so on. Even though you're exploring widely, you're generally moving the ball forward on the main thing. You start something and you keep searching until you find an effective way to finish it.
Meanwhile, when your curiosity sends you off in a dozen different directions and fractures your attention, then it can prevent you from focusing on one thing long enough to see it through to completion. Curious, but unfocused. You're jumping from one topic to the next, they aren't necessarily related, your efforts don't accumulate, you're simply exploring. You start many things and finish few.
How is your curiosity being directed? Is it rocket fuel or a roadblock?"
Financial Aid Workshop
The Fine Arts Center will be offering a Financial Aid workshop on January 17th from 4:00 PM-6:00 PM. April Baur, Director of Financial Aid at Presbyterian College, will be presenting information on cost of college attendance and sources of aid (federal, state, institutional, private, etc.). She will also go over FAFSA and explain the new process.
Please click on the below link to sign up. This workshop is for Juniors and Seniors and their parent/guardian. Register using the student’s name and the number of people (max of 3) attending in the quantity field. Thank you!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0A4DA5A82AA3FE3-47043764-fasfa
FAC Anti-Prom - 3/9/24
SAVE THE DATE! FAC Anti-Prom - Saturday, March 9, 2024. 6-9 p.m. Theme = SUPERSTELLAR! Space is the place...Astronauts, Extraterrestrials, Shooting Stars, and Arts Unicorns are welcome!
Tickets ($20 each) will go on sale the week of February 5. Sales are in grade order - Seniors first, then Juniors, etc.
FAC students only - no students from other schools or other planets.
FAC Teacher of the Year for 2024-2025
Congratulations to Mr. Samuel Hunter - FAC Music Theory Instructor and Composer-in-Residence - for being chosen as the FAC Teacher of the Year for the 2024-2025 School Year! We are very happy to have such a fine teaching artist represent our faculty with this honor.
College Corner
The "College Corner" is a resource for FAC Seniors and their families that we include in our Weekly Updates. If you have any questions about these or additional college resources, please reach out to our School Counselor, Gloria Collins. mailto:gcollins@greenville.k12.sc.us
Scholarships for FAC Seniors
In order to streamline our Weekly Update newsletter, we have consolidated all available scholarships into a Google Doc. Please click on the following link to access the doc, and check back often for updates - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OLP88nz2RdKe9rGFvf9FqLZmbhxAiONVT7F7hnu6TiY/edit?usp=sharing
Coming Up...
- Monday, January 15 - No School, observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Wednesday, January 17 - Financial Aid workshop for FAC Seniors and Parents; 4-6 p.m.
- Thursday, January 25 - Tri-M Music Honor Society Recital; 7:00 p.m., Sutherlin Recital Hall
- Thursday, January 25-Sunday, January 28 - FAC trip to Unified Auditions, New York City
- Friday, January 26 - FAC application for the 24-25 school year closes
- Wednesday, February 7 - 2:20 p.m. Jazz Studio Concert; 7:00 pm., Sutherlin Recital Hall; Tickets are $10 for adults, free to GCS students and children 12 & under
- Thursday, February 8 - 1:25 p.m. Jazz Studio Concert; 7:00 p.m., Sutherlin Recital Hall ; Tickets are $10 for adults, free to GCS students and children 12 & under
Helpful Links
Fine Arts Center - Greenville County Schools
Preparing dedicated students for 21st-century careers through rigorous, pre-professional arts training in a dynamic, inclusive, collaborative learning community.
Core Values
Creativity
Respect
Grit
Identity
Connection
Email: vpopat@greenville.k12.sc.us
Website: https://www.fineartscenter.net
Location: 102 Pine Knoll Drive, Greenville, SC, USA
Phone: (864) 355-2550
Twitter: @FACGreenville