Prom Updates and Reminders

You should have received an email last week with all the details of prom that you could ever want to know, but let me take a moment to provide you with a brief overview and a few important reminders.

• NCSSM is hosting the Junior-Senior Prom at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science on Saturday April 20. 
• The museum's interactive exhibits and the butterfly house are available during the Prom
• All NCSSM students are invited to attend. Students may also choose to bring a guest from home. 
• It is common for a group of friends or hallmates to attend Prom together. It is not expected or necessary to have a date to attend.
• Individual tickets are $50.00. Purchases may be made on campus during lunch beginning March 25th (cash/check) or via on-line by credit card at http://www.ncssm.edu/ecentral/prom-2013-payments.
• There are many staff members present to help chaperone, but we would love family volunteers if you would like to help or need an excuse to see the festivities.
• Student Life is providing an on-campus After Prom party (free to all) with a hot breakfast, bounce houses and movies.
• NCSSM does not sanction any off campus activities after prom, and if a student is planning to stay off campus, we highly encourage parents to speak with the chaperone who will be hosting the event.  
• If you choose to give your students permission to be gone overnight for prom night, I must receive the special Prom Overnight Permission for no later than April 17th.  Any forms received after this date will not be approved.  
• Students who live more than 2 hours away from campus may choose to bring a car back to campus on April 7th and it must return home by May 2nd.  Students who are closer than 2 hours may bring a car to campus April 19th and it must be returned home by April 21st.  For all the details on having cars on campus, please see the prom information packet.

Please let me know if you have any other questions about prom or if you did not receive the link to the prom information packet.

Did you know....

Did you all know that there are only 2 more extended weekends this year!  Spring break at the beginning of April and the first weekend in May are the only extendeds left.  Please, please, please start taking things home over these weekends.  It will make move out at the end of May so much more pleasant for everyone.

March Calendar

Below is a copy of the March Hall Calendar.  We are going to be busy this month!

Yearbook Reminder

3B Families,
I just wanted to be sure to remind you that the deadline for ordering a yearbook is March 28th!  You can purchase a yearbook for your student online at the following link: http://www.ncssm.edu/ecentral/yearbook-payments.
If you have questions about the yearbook or ordering, please contact one of the yearbook advisors, Matt Boerner (boerner@ncssm.edu) or Jonnell Carpenter (carpenter@ncssm.edu).

Spring Cleaning

Though you may not realize it, graduation is sneaking up on us.  There are only about 80 days left until Commencement and move out day!  I know this still seems like a long time, but let me give you some advice--use Spring Break as your kick off for beginning to move things out of the dorm and back home!  Think of it as a kind of spring cleaning.

I challenge each family to being at least one bag of things home each extended from now until the end of the year.  It will make your move out day so much easier if you only have a few bags and boxes to move out.  Think about how much you moved in on move-in day in August, add to that all the things your student has brought back to school from extendeds or accumulated here, and then imagine trying to move all that our after commencement.  The more you take home early, the better.

A couple other things to keep in mind:  the last week of school, students have room inspections each day and will be required to pack and clean certain things to assure that they are ready for move out.  This means that students should have enough bags and boxes here to completely pack their room before you arrive for commencement.  It also means that the more stuff they still have here, the harder it will be for them to get it all packed and moved out of the way to clean their room and the less time they will have to spend on fun activities and enjoying the last few days of the year.

Take my advice, and start your spring cleaning early!

4th Annual NCSSM Food Drive

Hey All,

Coming up on Saturday, March 23rd, NCSSM will be hosting our 4th annual NCSSM food drive!  This is the food drive that broke the world record 2 years ago, and, though we have scaled down some, we still work hard to collect plenty of food to benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC and the 560,000 people at risk of hunger in the 34 counties that the FBCENC serves.

On March 23rd, we will be collecting food from 10am-2pm on campus, and there will be several food trucks on campus who will be donating a percentage of their profits to the food bank.  In addition to the events on the 23rd, there is a hall competition (beginning immediately and running through March 31st at 11:59pm) to see who can donate the most food, and the winning hall will receive a 32 inch flat screen TV!  To participate, just visit the 3rd Bryan donation page at http://bit.ly/NCSSMFD133BR and make a donation.  All donations made to this page will count towards the 3rd Bryan contest total, but more importantly, will help the food bank.  Did you know that the Food Bank can turn $1 into 5 meals?  Evan a small donation can make a huge difference in the life of someone who is not sure where their next meal is coming from.