GUILFORD – A $44,000 MELMAC-Connect Aspirations to a Plan grant awarded to Piscataquis Community High School will fund programs that connect students to a college plan while attending high school.
The three-year grant focuses on college visits, grade-level transitions, PSAT-SAT preparation, financial aid education, community education and college data systems. It also will help fund a part-time teacher to assist the school’s guidance department with implementing the new program.
PCHS received a MELMAC grant last fall that afforded the school the opportunity to apply for this grant. The school used the planning portion to fund a University of Maine tour for sophomores and juniors. Jim Chasse, school principal, and Kelly MacFayden, guidance counselor, co-wrote the grant.
The MELMAC Education Foundation was established in January 2001 as a foundation dedicated to advance the cause of education for all Mainers.
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