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Unlock Your Future: Maryland Scholars Program Guide

This guide provides students with essential information on preparing for life after high school. Explore career paths, college options, and financial planning tips. Learn about salary expectations, budgeting, and the importance of academic performance.

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Unlock Your Future: Maryland Scholars Program Guide

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  1. Maryland Scholars School Name Date Speaker’s Name

  2. Your Future… • What’s important to you? • In what do you excel? • What do you love to do?

  3. www.BeWhatIWantToBe.com • Find information on: • Jobs • College • How to win prizes • Careers of the future!

  4. What do you want to be?

  5. Life After High School:What does it cost to live? Apartment Car Payment Car Insurance/Gas/Maintenance Gas/Electricity Phone/Internet/Cable Food Entertainment Total $800 $300 $450 $150 $150 $350 $200 $2,400 A MONTH!!! Pg 8

  6. Will you be able to afford it? Sample salaries (based on 40 hours/week) Minimum wage is $7.25/hour Pg 8

  7. Will you be able to afford it? Pay Check Pay to the order of Jane Eyre Four-Hundred Six Dollars and Zero Cents Earnings Rate Hours This period Regular $15.00 40 $600.00 Gross Pay $600.00 Deductions Statutory Federal Income Tax -$102.00 State/Local Income Tax -$36.00 Social Security Tax -$36.00 Other Health Insurance -$20.00 Net Pay $406.00 Almost $800 over budget! Per Month Gross Wages (x4 weeks) $2,400.00 Taxes Withheld -$408.00 -$144.00 -$144.00 Other Deductions -$80.00 Total Expenses : $2,400 !!! Net Pay $1,624.00 Pg9

  8. What some Maryland jobs pay… Pg9

  9. What are YOUdoing to PREPARE yourself to earn a GOOD SALARY???

  10. Your Personal Information Pg4

  11. Your Grades andAttendanceBy Year Pg4

  12. A Summary of Your Gradesand Your Service Learning Hours Pg4

  13. Other Information: *Activities, *Awards, *Grade Point Average (GPA) Pg4

  14. Who would you hire? Pg5

  15. Who would you hire? Pg5

  16. Your transcript can tells others: • I will show up for class or work! • I am dependable and reliable!

  17. Your transcript can tells others: • I can take on a challenge! AND

  18. Your transcript can tells others: • I am prepared for college work! • I have the skills needed to be successful!

  19. So now what? Maryland Scholars Course of Study Pg6

  20. With these courses, you will be more likely to: • Get into college or get a job with benefits • Qualify for scholarships • Graduate from college • Earn more money in salaries (whether you go to college or not)

  21. You have options - Preserve them by taking the right courses in high school!

  22. 3 things you can do now! • Talk with your counselor and parents about being a Maryland Scholar • Go to www.BeWhatIWantToBe.com and create an account – stay with it! • Work hard, have fun and CREATE YOURSELF!

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