Welcome to the Latino/a Educational Achievement Project's blog! Our blog is a way for us to connect with students and quickly inform you of educational opportunities particular to Latino students in Washington state. This blog will feature guest LEAPster who will write about their leadership experiences with LEAP. They will answer questions and provide advice.

This space is also open to showcasing your poems, videos, essays, photos, or other creative mediums. Let us know about your leadership involvement or tell us about the great work someone is doing in your school/community. For more information on LEAP, visit our website at www.leapwa.org


Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Going to the 2010 LEAP Conference?

We at LEAP would like to know what students are thinking before attending the conference. Provide your answers in the comment section of this post to any or all the questions below:

1. What are your expectations about the LEAP conference? Any? None? Need answers? Tell us.


2. What do you know about the LEAP Conference, and what do you hope to learn from your involvement this year? What do you hope to take back to your school/community?


3. What would YOU like to ask or tell your representatives?


4. What are your current college plans? What are some questions you have about college? What do you hope to learn at the Academic Showcase?


5. Who are you hoping to meet? Other students? Dr. Loco? LEAP? Particular speakers?


6. What questions do you have about Legislative Day? What are you hoping to learn or accomplish at Legislative Day?


See you in February!

Need more info on the LEAP Conference? www.leapwa.org

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

SEMY seeking Donations & Applications for Scholarship

Hello everyone,

I hope this email finds you in good health.

I want to invite you to please encourage students to apply for our scholarship. As of right now, we only have about $500 in funds; however, we have a couple of fundraisers in the horizon and more pledges starting this next month, as well as a matching donation of $1000 from the Washington Apple Foundation. Our goal is to have at least $2000 for our 2010-2011 scholaships winners.

Application information-- Please encourage students to apply for these scholarships. http://www.waef.org/files/documents/WAEF_Universal_Scholarship_Application.pdf

Donation information--feel free to make a check out to WAEF and mail to: WAEF, 2900 Euclid Avenue, Wenatchee, WA 98801 OR go to their website and do the contribution online. If you chose to do the contribution online you can go to WAEF.org, allocate the donation to "other" and then designate it to the Migrant Student Leadership and Academic Scholarship.

Thank you in advance for contributing to our scholarship and sharing the application with students.

Con respeto y cariƱo,

Isabel
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

New Scholarship from Western Union Foundation

Just learned about this new interesting scholarship called the Family Scholarship Program from Western Union Foundation (thank you DREAM Activist for the info).

There is no citizenship requirement but 2 members of your family must apply, for instance, yourself and your father or sister. Here is the link for more detailed information http://foundation.westernunion.com/ourProgramsScholarships.html