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Cheerleading and Songleading
SCHOLARSHIP
Half Tuition Waiver
When you become a part of the Salt Lake Community College Cheerleading/Dance team, you receive a half tuition waiver, through Student Life and Leadership.  In order to be qualified to receive the waiver you must maintain a GPA and Cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher.  You must also be enrolled in at least 9 credit hours of schooling with SLCC each semester. 


Commitment
As part of the team, you make a FULL YEAR commitment to the team and must remain on the team for a consecutive Fall and Spring Semester.   If you do not follow through with your commitment then the Salt Lake Community College, Student Life and Leadership program will reserve the right to take back any monies that were given to you through that program. 




Know Greater Hero's Program
Once you are a member of the Cheerleading Team @ SLCC, through an application process, you may be able to participate in the "Know Great Hero's" program. This program would provide you with a half tuition waiver as well.  If you participate on both the Cheerleading team and in the "Know Greater Hero's" program it will total to a full tuition waiver.  Below is information about the program:

Information below was taken from the following location: http://media.www.slccglobelink.com/media/storage/paper442/news/2005/02/08/Campus/Know-Greater.Heroes.Program.New.To.Slcc-855175.shtml



It is a program in which student athletes learn how to present an anti alcohol, drug and tobacco program to elementary students in a school assembly they will perform in.

The shows are described as playful, energetic and unforgettable. The heroes care about the kids and that comes through in the program. The message is timely and the values taught by the heroes help kids believe in themselves and walk through their fears. "Children are taught through example how to be their own greatest hero.

Over the next few years, athletes, or rather, heroes, from the volleyball, basketball, baseball and softball teams and cheerleaders, will perform this program to over 83,000 kids. The school districts targeted are, Granite, Jordan, Murray and Salt Lake.

The current sponsors for Know Greater Heroes include the Utah Jazz and Jazz Bear, Larry H. Miller Charities, Performance Audio and the Air Force Reserve. The program needs about 10 sponsors, which will underwrite the cost of the entire program.

"This program won't cost the elementary schools anything. We will give away T-Shirts, a course outline and lesson plan and booklets that address each core value, as well as posters for each classroom.  The teachers can use these as supplemental teaching aids with their own lesson plans.

"Know Greater Heroes," first started by a student at UVSC about 3 years ago. It has become so popular with elementary students that there is currently a yearlong waiting list for the performance.

The program's core values that are taught through an assembly, speak of being a leader, believing in oneself and being a force for good. Part of the focus is to help kids stand up to peer pressure and understand they have a support system to help them do that.

Each year the performances and message will be a little bit different specific to current issues addressing kids.

Written by: Kathy Rekoutis