{"id":1509,"date":"2019-09-27T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:30:33","slug":"ssc-grant-programs-host-orientation-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-grant-programs-host-orientation-event\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Grant Programs Host Orientation Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Support Services and STEM Student Support Services recently hosted \u201cFirst Days Fiesta\u201d at SSC.\u00a0The orientation event was offered on two separate days to participants of both programs and the purpose was to help new students get to know one another and become more acclimated to college.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett-749x999.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Garrett.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption><em>Seminole State College student Garrett Orphan poses for a photo at the \u201cFirst Days Fiesta\u201d hosted by the Student Support Services and STEM Student Support Services grant programs.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first item on the\nprogram agenda featured a panel of returning students answering questions such\nas \u201cHow did you get involved in campus life and organizations?\u201d and \u201cWhat is\nthe best piece of advice you can give a new SSC student?\u201d&nbsp;The panel was\nfollowed by a game of College 101 Jeopardy. The game asked questions regarding\noffices, the SSC culture, names, academics, processes, graduation and\ntransferring.&nbsp; To complete the event, students were given a packet that\nincluded information about upcoming SSS\/STEM SSS events such as FAFSA Days,\nuniversity tours and the Indian Health Scholarship (IHS) workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe participants learned a\nlot of new information from the Jeopardy game.&nbsp; Also, most of the panel\nmembers were SSS\/STEM SSS peer mentors, so participants gained new\nrelationships and connections as a result.&nbsp; It was great to visit with the\nnew students in the programs.&nbsp; I think the new participants had a lot of\nfun.&nbsp;I loved it,\u201d Laura Votaw, SSS Advisor, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firelake Grocery sponsored\nnachos for the participants to eat during the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSS\/STEM SSS is a federally\nfunded program by the U.S. Department of Education in cooperation with Seminole\nState College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about\nSSS\/STEM SSS, please contact Janna Wilson-Byrd at 405-382-9642 or visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/sss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.sscok.edu\/sss<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Support Services and STEM Student Support Services recently hosted \u201cFirst Days Fiesta\u201d at SSC.\u00a0The orientation event was offered on two separate days to participants of both programs and the purpose was to help new students get to know one another and become more acclimated to college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-events","category-grant-programs","tag-september-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}