Upward Bound: Frostburg State University

UB Update Welcome Back!

Starting this school year in all Allegany County Public Schools, breakfast and
lunch are free to ALL students. This is because of the Community Eligibility
Provision (CEP), a USDA program that allows low-income schools to offer
meals to all students at no cost and without requiring applications from
families. Free/Reduced applications will not be distributed to households at
the beginning of the year or throughout the school year as they are not
needed to obtain a free meal.

Families can continue to use PayPams to pay for extra items (ala carte) in the
cafeteria that are not part of the free meal offered to students.

Top Scholarships for High School Seniors: Class of 2025 Attention HS Seniors: Students from the Class of 2025 should be applying for these scholarships right now!

SENIORS: Common App is now OPEN!!

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Summer 2024 Recap

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Mark your calendars for the upcoming Academic Year!

Senior Week is in full swing. Today, we toured Hood College along with a few Upward Bound Math/Science- FSU students.

Now that our Summer Residential Program has concluded, we would like to recognize our outstanding students for their hard work this summer!

Science Scholars
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Destiney Burgess, Salimullah Vaughan, Eowyn Hansrote, Damiyen Piper, and Emily Rosenberger

Study Skills Scholars
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Destiney Burgess, Owen Blye, and Cheyenne Whetzel

Literature Scholars
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Eowyn Hansrote, Logan Thompson, Lillian Louden, Hailey Parrott, Autymn Ritchey, Emily Rosenberger, Damiyen Piper, and Ciara Ross

Writing Scholars
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Autymn Ritchey, Ryen Williams, Samantha Blubaugh, Dana Smith, Lillian Louden, Wyatt Clark, Owen Blye, and TC Kamron

Math Scholars
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Cheyenne Whetzel, Johnathon Windle, Zah'Meir Nichols, Drake Parrott, Brock Parrott, Danny Nguyen, Ryen Williams, Melinda Turner, Makaylyn Whetzel, and Emily Rosenberger

Distinguished Students
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Ciara Ross, Melinda Turner, Danny Nguyen, Damiyen Piper, and Dana Smith

Our Week 5 field trip is complete! We were able to tour the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where we observed the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope being assembled. We also visited Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and managed to escape from Breakout Games. Students also toured Bowie State University. We would like to thank Towson University for hosting us and for giving us a planetarium demonstration.

We have completed Week 4!! This week students finished up their classes, played some volleyball, had a self-care night, made beautiful tie-dye masterpieces, solved a Space Murder Mystery, went to see Footloose, and launched rockets.

Next week, we will be taking our extended field trip. Stay tuned for more details!

Yay Eowyn!

We had a great evening outing at Livvys SoftServe with our special guest, Diesel🍦

REMINDER: We will NOT run a bus this week. Students who normally ride the bus will be picked up/dropped off in a FSU van. Please note the pick up and drop off times.

Tim will be doing pick up tomorrow.

We’ve reached the end of our 3-Week Program. Our students did a fabulous job over the past few weeks! Enjoy the rest of your summer and we hope to see our 3-Week students at the awards ceremony on July 18th!

TOMORROW: Upward Bound will be hosting Parent Night for our Summer Residential Program. Parents/guardians and family members are invited to attend to learn more about what our students have been up to for the last few weeks.

That’s a wrap on Week 2! This week students continued their classes, had a pool party with Upward Bound Math/Science- FSU, competed in the UB Olympics, and took a field trip to the Greenbank Observatory.

Great Job over the 2023-2024 Academic Year!!

We are in Week 1 of our Summer Residential Program. The fun has just begun!

Summer Program Move-In is TOMORROW!

After you’ve submitted your 2024–25 FAFSA® form, you can check your form's status at any time. Just follow these steps. ​

If you see that your form is listed as "In Review," then you've successfully submitted it.

MHEC FAFSA Award Update 5/17/24

•MHEC started awarding the first round of Howard P. Rawlings Educational Excellence Awards, which included Guaranteed Access Grant (GA) renewal and initial applicants as well as Educational Assistance Grant (EA) renewal applicants, on May 1, 2024.
•MHEC is completing the award process on a weekly basis to award as many students as possible in an efficient manner.
•Eligible applicants who completed the FAFSA by May 15 (i.e. priority deadline date) will be guaranteed to be awarded. The Maryland Higher Education Commission’s goal is to award all eligible applicants who have completed the FAFSA by the priority deadline as swiftly as possible.

MHEC strongly encourages students who have not created an online account through the MHEC One-App) to utilize the online tool in order to enable award processing and track notifications.

*Please Note: MHEC has experienced some awarding issues as well as issues with the MHEC One-App in which applicants are not able to review their completed application on the Maryland College Aid Processing System (MDCAPS). MHEC strives to resolve all issues in a timely manner by working with our systems team to resolve awarding and application errors as they arise.

Currently, MHEC has awarded over 2,000 applicants a Howard P. Rawlings Educational Excellence Award for the upcoming 2024 - 2025 academic year.

The H. P. Rawlings Educational Assistance award update for fiscal year 2025 is as follows:

•The maximum award amount for the Guaranteed Access Grant (GA) is $22,100 and the maximum award amount for the Educational Access Grant (EA) is $3,000 for the 2024-2025 academic year.
•Guaranteed Access Grant (GA) “Renewal” students - 839 students have been awarded funding as a renewal recipient of the Guaranteed Access Grant for a total amount of $12,389,400.
•Guaranteed Access Grant (GA) “Initial” students - 893 students have been awarded funding as a first time (initial) recipient of the Guaranteed Access Grant for a total amount of $19,040,400.
•Educational Assistance Grant (EA) “Renewal” students - 223 students have been awarded renewal funding for the Educational Access Grant for a total amount of $665,700.

MHEC will continue to award the Guaranteed Access Grant (GA) to all eligible applicants (i.e. renewal and initial) as well as the Educational Assistance Grant (EA) to all “renewal” students that have completed the FAFSA or MHEC One-App by the priority filing date (i.e., May 15, 2024). MHEC will begin awarding the Educational Assistance Grant (EA) to first-time (initial) recipients until all eligible GA applicants have been awarded.

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Congrats again to all of our 2024 Upward Bound Graduates!