Dear Select County Superintendents, District Superintendents, and High School Principals:

Steps to College 2019 Event and Scholarship Opportunity

On behalf of the California Department of Education and the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento, we are pleased to invite you, your students, and their families to the VIII Annual Steps to College 2019 education fair.

This outstanding event is the largest bilingual university fair in Northern California where representatives from colleges and universities from the United States and Mexico come together to provide student opportunities for admission; bilingual, hands-on training on the college admissions process; and information on how to easily access financial aid and scholarships.

We encourage principals, school districts, and school boards to help in this important effort to coordinate buses for students and their families who would be interested in attending this free event.

Date: February 2, 2019
Time: 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Consulate General of Mexico, 2093 Arena Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95834
Cost: Free
Registration: https://stepstocollegesac.org

In addition to the Steps to College 2019 education fair, Cien Amigos, the Mexican Cultural Center of Northern California, and the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento have partnered to offer the Cien Amigos Institute for Mexicans Abroad Scholarship as a way of promoting access to higher education for Latino students.

Applications for the scholarship are available online and will be due on March 15, 2019. To be eligible, students must reside within one of the following Mexican Consulate service areas, which include the counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba.

Interested students may apply through the Mexican Consulate’s website at https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/sacramento/.

If you have any questions about either of these events, please contact the Community Affairs Department at the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento at 916-329-3542 or imesac@sre.gob.mx.

Sincerely,

Tony Thurmond
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
California Department of Education

Liliana Ferrer
Consul General of Mexico
Sacramento, California

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