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BECAUSE EDUCATION IS A FAMILY PRIORITY

Attend with family & friends.  There is information and resource material for all grade levels.  When you get there, attend an orientation session and pick up the Family Night Guide.  You will learn:

1. •How to make the Early Commitment to College Pledge
   

2. •Where everything is - a floor plan for all of the activities
   

3. •Times and room numbers for Financial Aid Presentation and AB 540 Information Sessions
   

4. •Times, subjects and rooms for College Life Workshops
   

5. •College resources
   

6. •A college preparation timeline
   

7. •A convention evaluation to give us feedback on how to make our event even better

Family Night at the Cash for College Convention offers a comprehensive set of resources for all stages of the college planning process, focusing on three important categories:

1. •Creating a College-Going Culture at Home and In the Classroom
   

2. •Planning to Pay for College
   

3. •College Access and California Dream Act updates [AB540]
   

Family Night offers a variety of activities organized into five main areas:

1. •Financial Planning Presentations:
   

2. 45 minute PowerPoint explanation of financial planning resources and opportunities
   

3. •AB540 & California Dream Act Information Sessions:
   

4. Immigration specialists describe pathways to college opportunities and answer individual questions on a one-to-one basis
   

5. •College Life Workshops:
   

6. Small group discussions on a variety of important topics like college savings plans, A-G college entry requirements, preparing your personal statement, scholarships, AB540 resources and much more
   

7. •Exhibit Hall:
   

8. College recruiters and career specialists are available to answer your questions and explain what classes are necessary to put you on the pathway to your dream college and career
   

9. •Russell J. Hammer Honorary Celebration:
   

10. Students in grades 6 through 12 who make the ‘Early Commitment to College Pledge” participate in a drawing for one of ten $1,000 scholarships awarded at the end of the Family Night evening.  Students pledge an early commitment to college by taking appropriate college preparatory courses, complete the FAFSA form in their senior year of high school and enter college in the fall after their high school graduation.

Family Night Registration begins with Orientation sessions where volunteers will explain the evening’s activities in English and Spanish.

Presentations and Workshops [click here for schedule] will begin continue throughout the evening.

Exhibitors [cick here for listing] are available in the Exhibit Hall K for information and questions about college and career pathways.

All students and families will return to the Exhibit Hall where we will culminate the evening with the Russell J. Hammer honorary celebration. 

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