Please join the University of North Georgia for an evening of food, drink and celebration of Oconee County students at their first annual "OconeeFest" scholarship fundraising event. This drop-in event will be held on the front lawn of the UNG Oconee Campus on Thursday, October 30 from 5:30-7:30. Donations are welcome but not required to attend.  "OconeeFest will focus on raising scholarship funds for Oconee County students attending any of UNG's four campuses. Scholarships may be used for tuition, study abroad opportunities and research. This semester, nearly 500 students from Oconee County are enrolled at one of UNG's campuses."

Students may once again be nominated for National Youth Leadership Forum in Medicine and the National Youth Leadership Forum in National Security - Diplomacy, Intelligence & Defense. Both Forums provide and opportunity for students to experience first hand experience in those career fields. The Forum in Medicine will be held in the summer of 2015. The forum in National Security will be in the spring of 2015 in Washington, DC. Please visithttp://www.envisionexperience.com/explore-our-programs/careers-in-medicine for complete details on the Forum in Medicine and http://www.envisionexperience.com/explore-our-programs/nylf-national-security? for the Forum in National Security. If you would like to be nominated to attend, please see Mr. Guthas in the Counseling office by September 19.

Fall is coming and so is the annual Mercer University School of Engineering Scholarship Challenge. Interested students should see Mr. Guthas in the Counseling Office.  This year they will hold their event on the Macon, Georgia campus on Saturday, November 15, 2014.  The Saturdayevent on November 15^th will include an open house, lunch, campus tours, a parents’ program and a challenge test in mathematics and word fluency.  Feel free to contact the event coordinator, Dr. Scott Schultz at (478) 301-2840 or via email to Schultz_sr@mercer.edu with any questions you might have. You may also visit http://forms.mercer.edu/engineering/forms/scholarship-challenge/index.htm

If you are interested in attending Oglethorpe University, an admissions representative will be here on Tuesday, September 9

 during Warrior Period in the cafeteria. Please sign up in the Counseling Office if you are interested in attending.

There will be a representative from the Coast Guard Academy at OCHS on Monday, September 8 at 12:00 PM. If you are interested in meeting with him, please sign up in the Counseling Office. You must have approval from your third block teacher if you do not have lunch at that time.