This Newsletter will keep you informed and updated on all opportunities and information to better your High School experience!

We want to make theater and the arts accessible for everyone, and one way we'd like to do that is by offering your students free tickets to upcoming Chanticleer Community Theater and Kanesville Symphony Orchestra concerts. Getting these tickets could never be easier too! All a student or teacher would have to do is fill out this form, and then a member of the PACE Team will reach out to confirm your ticket reservation.

Students will select their courses for the next school year starting on January 29, 2024. Students will receive instructions in advisement and their academy course after winter break. Students can begin looking at elective choices. An additional newsletter with all registration information will be sent out in January.

Current ninth graders will select their Academy on Thursday, December 14 and Friday, December 15.

Ask your student which academy they are selecting

Design and Construction Academy

-Construction Processes and Management

-Architectural Design

-Interior Design

Education Academy

-Teaching and Educational Leadership

-Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Academy

-International Business, Marketing, and Management

-Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Urban Agriculture Academy

-Animal Science

-Environmental and Natural Resources

-Food Science

-Plant Science

If you are interested in participating in the following programs for the 2024-2025 school year, please see their information below:

UNMC High School Alliance 2024-2025

Applications open this Friday November 17th. Application closes January 19th.

MUST HAVE YOUR OWN TRANSPORTATION TO ATTEND THIS PROGRAM IF YOU ARE ACCEPTED

UNMC application can be found at: https://www.unmc.edu/alliance/

Career Center 2024-2025

Application will open Friday, December 1st. Application closes March 1st.

TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED BY OPS FOR THIS PROGRAM IF YOU ARE ACCEPTED

Career Center application can be found at: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=tm3mWBshN0q36A72lnQgwT6e0h_1JTNFm78ulw6LfM5UQURNTTdLNDY4NUQwUFY5TEtDMjVCVlc5Uy4u

Form is due on January 19th!

Class of 2025:

• 4 individuals will be awarded a National Leadership Experience

• $1,000 – Two $500 scholarships from Arnold Clark Photography

• One Award per School — “Top Youth Leader” named from each high school

• Each student will receive a certificate from the National Council on Youth Leadership

• Additional scholarships will be announced as they become available

Youth Leadership Scholarships, National Leadership Experiences and Leadership Awards will be awarded on the basis of the completed Application Form including the Leadership Essay and attendance at the Leadership Workshop and Awards Ceremony. Attendance at the Virtual Leadership Seminar and Awards Ceremony is mandatory to be eligible for any awards.

You are invited to join us for Teaching at Nebraska. This is a one-day event where you can learn how an education degree through the College of Education and Human Sciences will provide you with the skills you will need to teach students from birth to 12th grade. You will hear from instructors about recent developments and popular subjects in the teaching profession and will also receive a guided tour of the new Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall, home to many of our teaching programs.

Friday, February 9, 2024 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM CST

Registration and lunch is provided at no cost to all attendees at this event.

Register at go.unl.edu/teaching-at-nebraska .

2024 Summer Scholars application will become live by January 1!

Help us find the next cohort of Summer Scholars!

The Joyce Ivy Foundation Summer Scholars Program provides scholarships for talented, high-achieving young women from the Midwest to participate in academic summer programs at some of the country's top colleges:

Barnard | Berkeley | Brown | Cornell | Dartmouth | Georgetown | Harvard | Johns Hopkins | MIT | Smith | Spelman | Yale

Scholarships are awarded based on merit and financial need.

NEW FOR 2024: We are supporting students from Indiana!

Join us for a virtual information session with Foundation leadership and Joyce Ivy alumnae to learn more:

• December 12, 6 pm ET: click here to register
• January 16, 6 pm ET: click here to register
• February 13, 6 pm ET: click here to register

Click here to start your scholarship application!

Our 2024 application is open!

For over 100 years, Carnegie Mellon has offered students unique and hands-on educational programs from the fine arts to technology and everything in between. Through Carnegie Mellon's Pre-College Programs, rising juniors and seniors in high school have the opportunity to experience a world-class education on a beautiful, vibrant college campus. Our programs prepare students for their upcoming college experience, help them narrow their career focus, and build critical knowledge and skills.

Fully Funded, Merit-Based* Pre-College Programs - Summer of 2024

• AI Scholars: Provides opportunities for students who have been historically excluded in STEM to study artificial intelligence with full-time faculty, staff, and researchers who are leaders in the field. (4-week program, rising seniors only)
  
  
• CS Scholars: Provides students who have been historically excluded in the field of computer science an opportunity to explore the subject with full-time faculty, staff and researchers who are leaders in the field. (4-week program, rising juniors only)
  
• Summer Academy for Math and Science: Allows students from underrepresented communities to develop a deeper understanding of STEM via traditional classroom instruction, hands-on projects, and sustained engagement with world-renowned faculty and skilled staff mentors. (6-week program, rising seniors only)
  
  *No cost to participant.

To learn more about our programs, please register for one of our Discover Sessions or contact us with questions.

online application

Change your community. Change you.

There’s no experience like the Bezos Scholars Program—a transformative, year-long, no-cost leadership development program that amplifies youth voice, collaboration and action so young people with passion can start making a difference today. Each year, 17 exceptional juniors from the U.S. and Africa, along with educators from each of their schools, are selected as Bezos Scholars.

Student Scholars receive leadership training from noted experts along with free college advising. At the center of the program are Community Change Projects—fresh, achievable and sustainable approaches to solving urgent problems, conceived and launched by Scholars with our support.

The Bezos Scholarship Program is a program of the Bezos Family Foundation, an independent private foundation that champions the science of learning and its application.

To be considered, U.S. students must:

• Attend an eligible* public high school in the United States that currently has a 30% or greater overall free and reduced lunch rate.

• Be a junior at the time they are applying to the program.

• Be enrolled in or have taken one or more advanced course during their high school career. This includes Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and college-level courses.

• Be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or have received DACA status.

• Be available to fully participate in the year-long program and attend all dates for the Aspen Ideas Festival trip in Aspen, Colorado, slated for June 22 - June 28, 2024.

• Nominate an educator, a willing and supportive adult from their school to serve as a mentor, who will fully participate in the program and go on the trip to Aspen with them.

https://apply.mykaleidoscope.com/scholarships/Bezos2024Cohort