{"id":186196,"date":"2014-12-01T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=186196"},"modified":"2014-12-01T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:00:08","slug":"nmcs-start-smart-seminar-wraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-start-smart-seminar-wraps\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC\u2019s Start Smart seminar wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College\u2019s Start Smart seminar wrapped up Wednesday last week with 48 seniors from Rota and Tinian high schools flown over to attend the outreach event at the Saipan World Resort. The seminar has been instrumental, according to the college, in preparing students for college and bringing a host of them to \u201cStart Smart\u201d at the community college here.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-186196 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-start-smart-seminar-wraps\/start-smart-pix1\/'>Start Smart pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-186198'>\n\t\t\t\tHigh school seniors from Tinian and Rota participated in NMC\u2019s Start Smart seminar last week. The Start Smart seminar was made possible by the College Access Challenge Grant Program. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-start-smart-seminar-wraps\/start-smart-pix2\/'>Start Smart pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-186199'>\n\t\t\t\tAmbassadors from the College Access Challenge Grant Program helped to facilitate the Start Smart event. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-start-smart-seminar-wraps\/start-smart-pix3\/'>Start Smart pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-186200'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas High School seniors show their information packets during the NMC Start Smart event last week. The Start Smart seminar was made possible by the College Access Challenge Grant Program. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-start-smart-seminar-wraps\/start-smart-pix4\/'>Start Smart pix4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-186201'>\n\t\t\t\tA high school senior participates in Financial Aid Jeopardy, an activity that reinforces key financial aid information and points. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-start-smart-seminar-wraps\/start-smart-pix5\/'>Start Smart pix5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-186202'>\n\t\t\t\tSeniors from Marianas High School pose for a photo at NMC\u2019s Start Smart seminar. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It was the first time for Rota and Tinian seniors to be flown over to Saipan for the event, according to the college. Previously, seminars were held on the respective islands.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day event featured both private and public school students. On Wednesday, talks taught students to \u201cget smart\u201d about credit so they would learn how to use credit wisely. Financial aid information, and options for paying for college were also presented.<\/p>\n<p>In all, hundreds of high school seniors from Marianas High School, Kagman High School, Saipan Southern High School, Tinian Junior Senior High School, Dr. Rita Inos Junior Senior High School, Mt. Carmel, and Grace Christian Academy participated in the seminar.<\/p>\n<p>NMC president Dr. Sharon Hart and the Public Schools System\u2019s Education Commissioner Dr. Rita Sablan also were listed as speakers at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Team building exercises and an icebreaker led by LJ Castro got students to bond. Graduates from the workforce also talked with students about their first-hand experiences of college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College\u2019s Start Smart seminar wrapped up Wednesday last week with 48 seniors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":186198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1222,1363,1223,938],"class_list":["post-186196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-education-commissioner-dr","tag-grace-christian-academy","tag-rita-sablan","tag-sharon-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}