Important Dates and Events

MAY 1

• Deadline to apply for Academic Paper Awards
• Read last year's winning entries

JUNE 1

• Annual Scholar's Day Program
• Washington, D.C. - Russell Senate Building Caucus Room

NSHSS members are invited to celebrate our annual Scholar's Day this June 1 at noon in Washington D.C., in the Russell Senate Building Caucus Room. This program is a gala event recognizing members, educators, families, and scholarship recipients. Mr. Nobel will provide the keynote address, and members will have the opportunity to meet with him and take photographs following the program.

Read about the 2006 Scholar's Day, held in the Dirksen Senate Building, in member Nathaly Hewawasam's article.

JULY 8-18

• Travel to Sydney Australia and the Great Barrier Reef with Claes Nobel. Review highlights of this past summer's trip on the website in the Fall 2006 Scholar's Journal. For information, contact Gloria Smith.

NSHSS group in Sydney, July 2006

AUGUST 1

• Deadline to apply for NSHSS/Presidential Classroom Scholarship for Public Service (for members who have attended a Presidential Classroom Program)

DECEMBER 1 — Atlanta, Georgia — The Carter Presidential Center

Holiday Event, Collegiate Panel Discussion, & College Fair

This December NSHSS will hold its annual holiday event at The Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georgia on December 1, 2007. The event will honor our scholars and distinguished educators, and include a panel discussion with college admissions officials from several top colleges and universities in the southeast. Topics covered will range from the various elements of the college application process, including timelines, common applications, early action and early decision, interviews, college visits, college selection, and much more. After the program, members will have the opportunity to meet the college representatives and ask questions in a college fair setting. Last year colleges in attendance were Emory, Yale, the University of Georgia, Spelman College, Morehouse College, SUNY Stony Brook, and Agnes Scott College.

Our previous member events have been held in a variety of locations, including the Harvard, UCLA, and Marquette campuses; The Senate Caucus Room, the House Caucus Room, and the Washington Press Club in Washington, D.C.; The Queen Mary in Long Beach, California; the USS Intrepid in New York City; the Southwest Airlines Headquarters in Dallas; and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, among others. View previous events on our website.