Rock Your FuturePromotion Messages

Schools and their partner organizations can celebrate Rock Your Future by relaying key messages to excite and galvanize their students during back-to-school. Feel free to tailor these messages to your needs.

Promote Rock Your Future on Your Marquee
Let your community know about Rock Your Future by promoting it on your marquee or sign. Some suggested messages you can use include:

  • Welcome Back, Students! Get ready to Rock Your Future!
  • Welcome Back, Generation Texas! Let’s Rock Your Future!
  • Generation TX, you are what’s next for Texas! Let’s Rock Your Future!
  • Seniors, you can’t get in if you don’t apply! College will Rock Your Future!
  • Students of GenTX: You’re What’s Next for Texas. Let’s Rock Your Future!

Rock Your FutureNewsletter Insert

Include a brief message about Rock Your Future (your events/week/month or even the key messages) in your regular print or email correspondence. A sample message might be:

Join in Rock Your Future

All over Texas, students are finding their voices, setting goals, and taking steps toward securing their own successful futures as part of creating a movement called Generation TX. Our students are Generation TX, and they are what’s next for Texas. With the support of their families and their communities, Texas students can become the most successful generation ever.

Generation TX’s Rock Your Future fall promotion (August-November) is focused on getting students, especially those in middle school and high school, thinking about their future and next steps toward college and career readiness. Our hallways, events and messages to students will focus on letting students know the Top 5 Ways to Rock Your Future:

  1. You can’t get in if you don’t apply. Texas makes it easy. ApplyTexas.org lets you submit one application to all Texas public universities as well as many private and two-year colleges.
  1. Your scores matter. Study hard, keep your GPA high, and take the PSAT, SAT and/or ACT for college applications and scholarships. Talk to your counselor, and visit the websites: collegeboard.org and act.org for more information.
  1. Visit college campuses. A college education opens doors to boundless career opportunities. College isn’t limited to four-year gigs. Your options for college include two-year schools, technical schools, certificate programs, as well as universities. Visit campuses and make the choice that’s right for you.
  1. Find a mentor. Seek out a knowledgeable adult to guide you through the college application process. An experienced parent, counselor, teacher, or family friend can be a valuable advisor on your journey to college. Talk with someone who works in a career that sparks your curiosity.
  1. Create a brag sheet. It’s never too early to create a brag sheet that organizes all of your accomplishments, community service, awards, internships, etc. This handy document will help you fill out scholarship applications, college applications, prepare for interviews, etc.

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Highlight Rock Your Future in Morning Announcements
Ask a few of the student leaders to say a few words about the best ways to Rock Your Future. Consider having a Rock Your Future week and reading/focusing in on one key message each day.

  1. You can’t get in if you don’t apply. Texas makes it easy. ApplyTexas.org lets you submit one application to all Texas public universities as well as many private and two-year colleges.
  1. Your scores matter. Study hard, keep your GPA high, and take the PSAT, SAT and/or ACT for college applications and scholarships. Talk to your counselor, and visit the websites: collegeboard.org and act.org for more information.
  1. Visit college campuses. A college education opens doors to boundless career opportunities. College isn’t limited to four-year gigs. Your options for college include two-year schools, technical schools, certificate programs, as well as universities. Visit campuses and make the choice that’s right for you.
  1. Find a mentor. Seek out a knowledgeable adult to guide you through the college application process. An experienced parent, counselor, teacher, or family friend can be a valuable advisor on your journey to college. Talk with someone who works in a career that sparks your curiosity.
  1. Create a brag sheet. It’s never too early to create a brag sheet that organizes all of your accomplishments, community service, awards, internships, etc. This handy document will help you fill out scholarship applications, college applications, prepare for interviews, etc.

Social Media Messages

If you are a school, business, community organization, etc. that promotes and supports a college-going culture through social media, please weave in some Rock Your Future messages to your Twitter and/or Facebook editorial plan. Below we have included some sample tweets and Facebook posts for you to use as a base and customize to promote Rock Your Future in your community.

Tweets:

  • You can’t get into college if you don’t apply!ApplyTexas.org lets you submit one application to all Texas public universities.
  • Your scores matter! Study hard, keep your GPA high, and take the PSAT, SAT and/or ACT for college applications and scholarships.
  • Rock Your Future: Register at to take the SATs this fall: Oct.6, Nov. 3, Dec. 1.
  • Sophomores and Juniors, Rock Your Future by registering at for the PSAT on Oct. 17-20!
  • Rock Your Future: Register at for the Sept 8, 2012 ACT by Aug 17 (late registration by Aug 24).
  • Rock Your Future: Register at for the Oct 27, 2012 ACT by Sept 21 (late registration by Oct 5).
  • Rock Your Future: Register at for the Dec 8, 2012 ACT by Nov 2 (late registration by Nov 16).
  • Make your brag sheet (activities, community service, awards, internships) for scholarship apps, college apps, and prep for interviews.
  • Bring Rock Your Future to your school, business, or community with the RockYour Future kit:
  • Did you know? ApplyTexas.org lets you apply to many private and two-year colleges in addition to all Texas public universities at once!
  • Here are some tips on how to Rock Your Future by finding a college mentor from @USATodayCollege:
  • Rock Your Future! Keep these tips in mind when visiting college campuses to make the choice that’s right for you:

Facebook posts:

  • Bring Rock Your Future to your school, business, or community with the downloadable GenTX Rock Your Future kit:
  • Know which college you’re going to apply to?What made you choose that school over the others? Join the college-going movement at Generation TX:
  • Have you visited a college campus that Rocked Your Future? Tell GenerationTX about which Texas campuses are the BEST to visit:
  • Rock Your Future: Register at to take the SATs this fall: Oct.6, Nov. 3, Dec. 1. What’s your best prep tip?
  • Did you know? ApplyTexas.org lets you apply to many private and two-year colleges in addition to all Texas public universities at once! Start the college application process now at
  • Your scores matter! Study hard, keep your GPA high, and take the PSAT, SAT and/or ACT for college applications and scholarships. For more info, visit and Rock Your Future!
  • Sophomores and Juniors, Rock Your Future by registering at for the PSAT on Oct. 17-20!
  • A mentor can be a huge help in the college application process. Here are some tips on how to Rock Your Future by finding a college mentor from USA Today College:
  • Visiting college campuses is a fun and important part of making the college choice that’s right for you!Keep these tips in mind when visiting campuses: