Deciding which college or university is best for your personality, finances and what you want to study is a complicated decision.  You can have help from counselors, trade schools, colleges and universities at the PROBE fair at FCHS.  Your college decision immediately affects your next two or four years.  This decision will affect your job choices, finances, place you live and general contentment with what you have to do during the day for most of your life.  This opportunity is open to anyone in Fannin County who is thinking about college or technical school, not just FCHS students.

There will be a PROBE Fair at Fannin County High School New Gym on Thursday, October 20, 2016 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.  The Probe Fair is an annual program of college fairs and guidance counselor workshops that are held throughout the state of Georgia. The program is managed by the Georgia Education Articulation Committee (GEAC), whose sole mission is to disseminate information and stimulate interest in post-secondary education for students in Georgia. Hundreds of colleges from across the nation attend Probe each year to reach thousands of Georgia high school juniors and seniors.

Students can register at http://www.gaprobe.org/ if they would like to already have their name in a databank for the colleges they are interested in.  Registration is not mandatory, but it is recommended.  A barcode will be used to gather information about the students for each college.  The colleges will scan the barcode and add the students to their college’s database instead of students having to fill out pen and paper information cards at the representatives table.  Students need to do this before the day of the PPROBE Fair.

If you should have any questions, please call Fannin County High School to speak to one of the counselors:  Tammy Roberts or Jennifer Walker.

This article has been updated to include the information that everyone who is interested in college can come to PROBE.