News Release
Date: November 7, 2008
Media Contact: Elizabeth Homan, 240-567-7970; Marcus Rosano, 240-567-4022
Montgomery College, Women’s Bar Foundation to Host Seminar for High School Students on “Preparing for Success,” Nov. 22
Event to Feature Workshops, Keynote Address by Motivational Speaker Erricka Bridgeford
Montgomery College and the Montgomery County Women’s Bar Foundation are hosting the eighth annual “Preparing for Success” seminar for local high school girls on Saturday, November 22 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Montgomery College’s Germantown Campus, Humanities and Social Science Center, 20200 Observation Drive, Germantown, Md. The all-day seminar program is designed for high school girls who plan to attend college or enter the workforce. The day begins with breakfast and remarks from keynote speaker Erricka Bridgeford, a mediator and motivational speaker. The participants attend workshops focusing on résumé writing and interview techniques, getting into college and paying for it, a survivor’s guide to independence, and street law and safety issues. An event tradition, “The Right Look” fashion show, with the program participants as models, will conclude the program. The program is free of charge and open to high school students in public, private, and alternative schools, as well as girls in independent living programs. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided. The program is just one of the community projects sponsored by the Montgomery County Women’s Bar Foundation each year. The Foundation awards scholarships to students at local law schools and Montgomery College. This year’s recipients are Montgomery College students Amy L. Gilbert and Minhtien Tom. Free bus service to the event will be provided from several local high schools. Pick-up at Watkins Mill is at 9 a.m. Service from Montgomery Blair, Gaithersburg and Paint Branch High Schools is at 9:15 a.m. Buses will also pick up students at Quince Orchard, Einstein, and Blake High Schools at 9:30 a.m. The “Preparing for Success” program has won awards from the Maryland State Bar Association and from the Montgomery County Bar Association. For registration and other information, log on to www.preparingforsuccess.org or contact Lilli Khozeimeh, Esq. at 301-340-9090. # # #
Additional “Preparing for Success” sponsors are the Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery County Commission for Women, the J. Franklyn Bourne Association, and the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association.
Montgomery College is a public, open admissions community college with campuses in Germantown, Rockville, and Takoma Park/Silver Spring, plus workforce development/continuing education centers and off-site programs throughout Montgomery County, Md. The College serves nearly 60,000 students a year, through both credit and noncredit programs, in more than 100 areas of study.