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Essex County Vocational & Technical High School’s held a 2025 Fall College Fair on October 24th at Donald Payne Vocational & Technical High School. It was a pleasure to greet and meet teens from Newark Tech, West Caldwell Tech and Payne Tech. They were excited to receive scholarship applications, college recruitment guides for athletes and…
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Thanks to everyone who came out to lend a hand at the 2025 Wilhelmina Holder Memorial Cookout and Bookbag/School supplies giveaway. The food was plentiful, thanks to TossedNJ for the glazed chicken, pasta salad, yellow rice, macaroni salad, meatballs, tossed salad, baked beans, fried chicken and our grill masters who kept the cheeseburgers, and hotdogs…
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Camp College was an amazing experience for the Class of 2026 and 2027. So grateful to the NJ Association of College Admissions Counselors for organizing this event which was held July 21-22 at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ. Rutgers Newark provided breakfast and a campus tour/admissions presentation before we departed for Georgian Court University.…
...continue readingWe are excited to announce the 2025 NJIT AEOP High School Summer Internship, a unique opportunity for high school students to engage in hands-on research and exploration in the fields of optics, photonics, and imaging, with a focus on biological and environmental sensors. The internship will run from June 23 to August 5, 2025, spanning 6.5 weeks of immersive…
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Our community teens had a great time touring Felician University. Many of these high school seniors and juniors shared that it was their first college visit so we are elated that it was a good one.
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It was great to greet and meet so many awesome high school juniors at the 2026 Citywide College Fair. They were respectful, enthusiastic and focused. They shared their aspirations, talents and impressive gpa’s.There were approximately 2500 in attendance and they cleaned me out of treats, scholarship and college information and anxiously signed up for college…
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Our Lincoln University Campus Tour was an exciting event for our teens who braved the weather for an insightful and admissions presentation on March 5, 2025. Our students shared reflections after the trip that I felt compelled to share: “This was an amazing trip, what a great college. I love how the college students connected…
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Yesterday was a great day for our community teens who enjoyed a visit to Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. We had a great student tour guide who “kept it real” with our teens about dorm life, peer pressure, time management, internships and the importance of valuing your education. Our teens also enjoyed learning about…
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Our Community Resource and Job Fair was a huge success. Individuals and families were able to connect with potential employers and obtain community resource information. We look forward to hosting!
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The High School Academic Support Program hosted a Law Enforcement Career Fair at City plex on January 15, 2025.
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