{"id":1526,"date":"2019-10-01T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2019-10-22T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:27:49","slug":"ssc-grant-programs-help-students-learn-about-financial-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-grant-programs-help-students-learn-about-financial-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Grant Programs Help Students Learn about Financial Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Support Services and STEM Student Support Services recently held a Financial Aid Update for the 2019-20 academic year.\u00a0The purpose of the event is to keep students informed of any major changes to financial aid, as well as to educate them about aid processes.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/T-Torralba.jpg\" alt=\"Man speaker to students\" class=\"wp-image-1527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/T-Torralba.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/T-Torralba-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/T-Torralba-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/T-Torralba-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><figcaption><em>Tony Torralba, Seminole State College Financial Aid Clerk, tosses candy to a student who answered a question correctly during the Financial Aid Update hosted by Student Support Services and STEM Student Support Services.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tony Torralba, SSC Financial\nAid Clerk, presented a wide range of material, including scholarships, grants,\nand the different types of loans.&nbsp;The event is held annually, right before\nthe opening of FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.&nbsp;FAFSA opens\nevery year on October 1.&nbsp;The Financial Aid office and SSS\/STEM SSS follow-up\nthe Financial Aid Update with FAFSA Days, another annual event where Financial\nAid Specialists and SSS\/STEM SSS Advisors work together to assist students with\ntheir financial aid applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is really important to\nkeep students informed of changes to financial aid and to encourage students to\napply for as many grants and scholarships as possible. In SSS\/STEM SSS, we\ndiscourage loans, even though loans seem to be a reality of education.&nbsp;Because\nof this reality, we try to help our participants become educated about as many\nfinancial avenues as possible to help them stay out of debt.&nbsp;Also, we find\nit extremely important to emphasize the opening of FAFSA.&nbsp;We want our\nparticipants applying as soon as the application opens. &nbsp;We have the greatest\nfinancial aid team at SSC.&nbsp;We love working alongside them.&nbsp;They are\nalways so helpful and willing to teach our students and answer all the\nquestions they have,\u201d Janna Wilson-Byrd, Director of SSS\/STEM SSS said.<\/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 held a Financial Aid Update for the 2019-20 academic year.\u00a0The purpose of the event is to keep students informed of any major changes to financial aid, as well as to educate them about aid processes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","tag-october-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","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=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}