{"id":301,"date":"2018-08-21T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vendor.hub.wp.nau.edu\/gear-up\/senior-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:23:20","slug":"senior-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/gear-up\/senior-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Launch Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Senior Launch Guide<\/h1>\n<p>Thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helios.org\/\">Helios Education Foundation<\/a>, Arizona GEAR UP provides high school seniors\u2014in 41 schools across the state\u2014a Senior Launch Guide. This resource helps seniors launch their postsecondary goals and furthers <a href=\"https:\/\/educationforwardarizona.org\/progress\/az-60-action-plan\/\">Achieve60AZ<\/a> initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Guide includes a wealth of information about career exploration, FAFSA help, scholarship and job tips, selecting and applying for colleges, and more. Whether headed to a 4-year university, community college, technical school, the workforce, or the military, the Senior Launch Guide helps with every step along the way.<\/p>\n<p>While students receive the guide in school and work with teachers and GEAR UP coaches to map out their plan, the guide is also available in a digital version. For those who want to go all-digital, email <a href=\"mailto:Daniel.Pulu@nau.edu\">Daniel.Pulu@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Supporting Documents<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A sample letter to parents<\/strong>\u00a0(in <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/ENG-Parent-Letter-to-Introduce-Launch-Guide.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/SPAN-Parent-Letter-to-Introduce-Launch-Guide.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish<\/a>) that schools can individualize, then print and provide to parents of seniors that explains the Guide and how they can use it to support their child\u2019s progress senior year.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Launch Guide BEST PRACTICES July FINAL.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/Launch-Guide-BEST-PRACTICES-July-FINAL-ek.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Best practices<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in using the Guide effectively are based on the experience of 12 Arizona high schools that used the Guide in 2017-18.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/Copyright-permissions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terms and Conditions for LAUNCH Guide User<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <a class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Senior Launch Guide Video Series_0\" href=\"#\">\n      <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n          <h4>Senior Launch Guide Video Series <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n          <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\"><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\">\n        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/gear-up\/senior-guide\/senior-launch-guide-orientation-video-form\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senior Launch Guide Video Series (Orientation)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2al3MM_1ZXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What is the Senior Launch Guide?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sdoWzZrbeyQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The FAFSA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/miXtU7Kfii4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senior Launch Guide Video Series (Orientation) Spanish<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-right-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-right-column\" >\n    <div class=\"shortcode-right-column__container\">\n<!-- shortcode-block -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-block\">\n      <div class=\"block-header\">\n        <h3><strong>Send us your thoughts<\/strong><\/h3>\n    <\/div>\n          <div class=\"block-body\">\n      <div><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body>\n<p>Please send our Senior Services Manager Daniel a quick note at <a href=\"mailto:Daniel.Pulu@nau.edu\">Daniel.Pulu@nau.edu<\/a> about how you used the guide. 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