MENDOTA - The Mendota High School counselors’ COVID-19 “e-Learning” student outreach efforts that have gained local, state, national, and international attention have been made available online to all.

To empower students’ career development during the current school closings, to promote equal access, and to broaden rural students’ awareness of colleges and universities, Mendota High School counselors implemented a “CyberGuidance” initiative, both creating and drawing students’ attention to multiple web-based resources. One of the most popular and useful, which garnered several thousand unique user visits in a matter of days, is a dynamic College and University CyberGuidance outreach document complete with customized information, contact information, links to virtual campus tours, and more.

Mendota High School Director of Guidance and Counseling Mitch Landgraf noted, “Our College CyberGuidance form has taken off like wildfire, gaining the participation of state, regional, national, and even international institutions of higher learning, and getting highly-positive feedback from the state and national admissions organizations with which we have partnered in this effort. There are also other great college resources out there specifically during this time, including a national database of COVID19-related changes and extensions made to admission, housing, financial aid, and other deadlines and processes, as well as an increase in opportunities for virtual campus tours, virtual registration appointments, and more. As such, we created a single starting point document that has direct links to it all, including the College CyberGuidance document. More colleges and universities are adding their information daily, including many of the very top schools in the nation.”

Due to strong local, state and national interest from students, parents, teachers and school counselors, and as an extension of Mendota High School’s “Pulleying” program for student-to-student kindness, this free resource has been made public and shared regionally, nationally and with high school counselors around the state, who have notified MHS that they are using the resource to provide career guidance services to their students at home during this time as well.

All Mendota area students and parents are welcome and encouraged to utilize these resources at:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wEolmi_efv7hrBho9g7ANT8uo6nKrRbSfh3PZKRnMum or by navigating to www.mendotahs.org and scrolling down to the “College CyberGuidance” link near the image of a road sign saying “College - Just Ahead.”

“The colleges will be easily able to update their information, so this will serve as a dynamic college and career-development resource and connection tool for MHS students for many years to come,” Landgraf added.