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Cake Signing Day touts MHS student college applications
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| Junior Candice Miles and senior Micheal Polk, both Lady Bulldogs on the Magnolia High School volleyball team, signed 'letters of intent' for college at the MHS Cake Signing Day, Nov. 25. |
By TANA ROSS
The College and Career Center at Magnolia High School is experiencing a boom in growth and instructor/sponsor Chellete Stephenson decided it was time to celebrate with some cake. The school hosted a Senior Cake Signing Day Nov. 25, getting students to list the colleges and universities they have applied to attend.
“We are celebrating ‘signing day’ like the athletes do,” she said.
The Signing Cake took center stage at “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” a monthly program for students, that offers information and guest speakers. But this month instead of a guest speaker, the Cake Signing offered students a celebration after they filled out senior forms. The forms asked students to list the colleges they have applied to and what their post-high school graduation plans include.
Next month on Dec. 16, Magnolia Independent School District officials including administrators and school board members are expected to attend the “Oh the Places You’ll Go” program. At the December event, MHS students who have been accepted to college will be recognized. Stephenson said the number of college bound MHS students has increased substantially.
“We have 85 applications right now,” she said before the Thanksgiving holiday. “Last year at this time there were 25 students who had received acceptance letters from colleges and universities.”
“Oh the Places You’ll Go” is an extension of the MHS College and Career Center that has been under Stephenson’s supervision since it opened in the fall of 2007. The center, which enlists four parent volunteers, offers MHS students an on-campus resource for college and career training information, funding and testing. This year the center is seeing more than 100 students a day.
“We are celebrating ‘signing day’ like the athletes do,” she said.
The Signing Cake took center stage at “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” a monthly program for students, that offers information and guest speakers. But this month instead of a guest speaker, the Cake Signing offered students a celebration after they filled out senior forms. The forms asked students to list the colleges they have applied to and what their post-high school graduation plans include.
Next month on Dec. 16, Magnolia Independent School District officials including administrators and school board members are expected to attend the “Oh the Places You’ll Go” program. At the December event, MHS students who have been accepted to college will be recognized. Stephenson said the number of college bound MHS students has increased substantially.
“We have 85 applications right now,” she said before the Thanksgiving holiday. “Last year at this time there were 25 students who had received acceptance letters from colleges and universities.”
“Oh the Places You’ll Go” is an extension of the MHS College and Career Center that has been under Stephenson’s supervision since it opened in the fall of 2007. The center, which enlists four parent volunteers, offers MHS students an on-campus resource for college and career training information, funding and testing. This year the center is seeing more than 100 students a day.
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