TRiO Day in Arkansas on February 25th was a blast. Good people, good gifts, good food, and good times at Harding University in Searcy, AR. We had over 320 attending and gave out 30+ medals to our Hall of Fame students. Great student speakers, poster winners, service project, and two Coins For College Scholarships of $400 each…what a prosperous day!! Also included the ‘Where’s Piggy’…shown with Mary Kate Snow is Mr Jason McGehee, representative from Congressman Tim Griffin’s office, contributing to Fair Share!! Go TRiO…
2012 TRiO Day Registration form
Please put the date, Feb. 25, on your calendar and gear up to come. Remember, we will have a poster contest so have your students get started. This years theme for both National TRiO day and Policy is “College Opportunity Programs: Paving the Way to America’s Prosperity”. In addition, we hope to have lots of Coins for College donations to provide as many scholarships as possible to our TRiO high school seniors and college students. Jeanette Berry will be compiling our Hall of Fame booklets this year. She will need a student picture and short statement as to what TRiO has done for them to place in the booklet. We will send out the Congressional Cards for your students to fill out…please, please have your students do this and mail them before policy…these have a tremendous impact on our representatives. Once again, we will send the cards out for you to print and mail. Send receipts for printing or mailing costs to AASAP treasurer Vergina Smith, SSS program, College of the Ouachitas, One College Circle, Malvern, AR. 72104 for reimbursement. Due to high security measures in the capitol, packages can sit for weeks before they are scanned and sent to the representatives office. Therefore, we would like for these to be mailed individually. How astonishing it will be for a representative to receive a large bag of cards from from students telling them how TRiO has impacted their lives!!
Remember, TRiO Day is for all TRiO programs in Arkansas. You do not have to be a member of AASAP to participate. Although our email list consists of AASAP members, please share this information with all TRiO programs so we can have a giant Hall of Fame booklet and thousands of Congressional Cards on the desks of our representatives!! We can make a difference!!