Author: Marilyn Mullan

Dear 25th Year HST Families,
The clap tracts are not available yet. We will send an email when we have them on our website.
Thank you for your patience. Ms. Gena is currently working on making the accompaniment tracts for West Side Story – so the clap tracts may not be available until Monday.
Blessings, Marilyn

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Marilyn Mullan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Q&A for 2020/2021 Classes & Registration Time: Jun 2, 2020 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Marilyn Mullan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: How to Record Songs – Q&A Time: Jun 2, 2020 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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There are TWO zoom meetings tonight:
7:30pm for info about recording. 8pm for info about next year and registration.
Blessings, Marilyn

Dear 25th Year HST Families,
We are holding a zoom meeting for parents concerning HST’s classes for next year. I will answer questions about safety concerns as well as specific registration/billing questions. Blessings, Marilyn Marilyn Mullan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Q&A for 2020/2021 Classes & Registration Time: Jun 2, 2020 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 852 6384 1468 Password: HST21 One tap mobile +13017158592,,85263841468#,,1#,892490# US (Germantown) +13126266799,,85263841468#,,1#,892490# US (Chicago)
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Dear Prospective HST Family, We are thrilled that a current HST family has recommended our program to you. We have put together the following instructions to help you review our classes and register:
*First step:* please visit the registration page on our website:
www.hstonline.org/registration-information/
You will find the following documents there for your review:
· *Class chart*. Please note that the early bird registration price will be available through *June 30th*. *Please also note all prerequisites* :
o Your student’s *HST Age* is the age your student will be by *Dec. 31, 2020.*
o Acting A or B is required for all new students, regardless of prior training.
o All new dancers are asked to register for entry level classes (Jazz 1, Tap1, Broadway Jazz 1, Broadway Tap 1, Boys Jazz, Irish Soft Shoe). Dance assessments will be held on Wed., Sept 23 to determine class placement.
o A Capella choir auditions are in December. Registration for this class will open after auditions. Please note requirements for audition eligibility.
· *2020-2021 Policies Contract* You will be asked to agree to all the parts of this document when you register.

· *2020-2021 Tuition and Fees Worksheets * This set of worksheets is designed to help you calculate your total HST bill. TADS, the company that handles HST’s registration, will not provide a total price until you have completed your enrollment. At that point, you will not be able to make changes without contacting us. In order to minimize this, we ask you to please download these worksheets and fill them out prior to enrolling.
o The 1st sheet is for elementary and middle school.
o The 2nd sheet is for high school.
o The 3rd sheet includes prepaid tickets and payment plan options. Please note: new families will *only* have students in Showcase. *Your total prepaid ticket purchase will be 10 super-discount tickets ($10 each) for Showcase.*

NOTE:* The $30 family registration fee is not included in the worksheets* because TADS charges this fee upon enrollment. It cannot be spread out over a payment plan.
*When you are ready to register* please click the link at the bottom of the webpage to register. This will direct you to TADS.
· Select the 2020-2021 school year.
· When you reach the Sign In page, select the gray “create a new account” button and set up your account with TADS.
· When prompted for an *HST age*, please enter the age your child will be *by Dec. 31, 2020*.
After you set up your account, TADS will email you a welcome letter with directions on how to enroll your child. This email will have links to 2 documents. These are the same documents that you have already looked at from our website.

Please click the link “to enroll on the TADS website” at the bottom of this email. This will bring you to a sign-in page. Please sign in with the account information you have already set up. The system will then walk you through registering your child with HST.

*Important registration notes:*
· The 6th page is the main page that will allow you to enroll. This is a very busy page. All parts have to be completed.
o *Policies Contract.* This asks you to agree to all HST’s policies. You agree to each of the 7 parts of this document separately.
o *Course Selection*. After the chart listing the classes available to a students in your child’s age group, please select your child’s courses..
o *Minimal Requirements*. You must agree that your child meets the minimal requirements listed in the blue box.
o *Prepaid Ticket Questions*. As a new family, you only have student(s) in Showcase.
§ Please answer ‘Yes’ to the very last question.
§ Please answer ‘No’ or 0 to the 5 previous questions.
§ The system will require you to answer each of these questions for each child. However, TADS will only assign the prepaid fee once.
· Once you have enrolled your child, you will be brought to the enrollment page. You will see your child’s enrollment in a “pending” status.
· To enroll another child, please click the Admissions Tab. Then click the “Start New Application” button.
· Once we accept your child(ren) on our end (TADS does not allow this piece to be automatic), you will receive another email asking you to set up a payment agreement for your child(ren).

*Important payment notes*:
· When you get to the Agreement page, please double check your bill to make sure that everything is billed correctly. (This is where the Tuition and Fees Worksheet is particularly helpful!) Please make sure that you are only charged prepaid tickets for Showcase. If there is any discrepancy, please contact us before continuing. *(hstalents@gmail.com <hstalents@gmail.com>)*
· If you pay by credit card, TADS will charge you a 3% convenience fee. There is no fee for a direct bank withdrawal.
· When you first register, you will be charged a $30 family registration fee.
· In order to avoid incurring any additional fees, please use the same method of payment for all children. If a pop-up asks you to select an account, choose the “select existing account” option rather than “create a new account” unless you have a serious reason to do so.
· You will have the option of selecting a payment plan that splits your tuition over 1, 2, 6, or 10 installments. The details of these payment plans are in the Tuition, Prepaid and Fees Worksheet document.
· Many payment plans start before the Sept 1 registration deadline. If the payment plan you would like starts prior to your registration date, you may still select that plan but TADS will immediately charge you for previous months’ payments.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact:
Marilyn Mullan, Executive Director: hstalents@gmail.com 240-997-5796
Mena Stell, Registrar: menamacrina@aol.com 410-905-1137

Dear 25th Year HST Families,
We have completed the recording of lines for all our shows (Thank you, God!). Now we move onto phase 2 – recording songs. We realize this new process is taking more time than we’d hoped and many families just want to move onto summer. Since we’ve never done there before there was a bit of a learning curve, so *we appreciate your patience with this LAST step (for families) in this very long 25th Season.* Please encourage your students to take the time to watch the instructional video and then put their very best effort into submitting a great recording. We also encourage parents to watch the video (less than 5 minutes) so you can support your student’s efforts. *Students will need:*
– Smart Phone – A second computer device – Headphones or Ear Buds
If you family does not have these items, please see if you can borrow a friend or neighbors. If you are not able to borrow them, contact me (240-997-5796) and we will figure out a solution that works for you.
*I am incredibly grateful for the support and prayers of our families.* I truly believe the extra efforts we are making so our students can have “something” from their year-long efforts, will help them (and us) process the losses and move forward. Blessings, Marilyn
Below is the link for how students will record the songs from their shows.
https://youtu.be/mDeWW0CQsYU
There is also a *Zoom meeting at 7:30pm tonight *to take questions about this process (we will record this and make the recording available to you).
Marilyn Mullan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: How to Record Songs – Q&A Time: Jun 2, 2020 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Dear 25th Year HST Families,
Keeping with the “uniqueness” of this year – we are actually opening up registration for *next* year before we have finished *this* year! We decided to do this so that families would have the option of doing a 10 month payment plan.
*I realize that there are many questions about how we will do things next year. * I will be hosting a parent Zoom tomorrow evening at 8pm to answer questions about our current thoughts/plans for safety procedures in the fall. To be completely transparent, I will state upfront that these “plans” are tentative at best because we don’t know what we don’t know. It is impossible to predict what the status of Covid19 will be in the fall or what the CDC will require at that time. *All I can promise is that if we are not legally able to hold classes we will refund 100% of your tuition.* We certainly understand if families decide to wait until the end of summer to make decisions concerning dance (registration closes August 31st). We opted to NOT increase any tuition unless the length of the class increased (this is true for BW Tap & Jazz 1 and for Theatricals) and there is an early bird discount for almost all classes and Theatricals through June 30th. Troupe registration is normally required within a week after audition results but this year families will have until the end of June.
You should have received an invite to enroll your child(ren) from TADS (the company we have contracted with to do our registration). The *email should have “HST Cultural Arts, Inc.” as the sender.*
Before you click the link in that email, we ask that you first *review the 2 documents attached to this email*. They are:
1. Our *2020-2021 Class Chart*. Please review this prior to enrolling your children. Please note that the time and location has changed for all dance classes. All prices have remained the same except for the classes that had additional time added to them. New this year: There will be an early bird price for troupes as well. The early bird registration price will *only *be available through *June 30th*.
2. *Tuition, Prepaid and Fees Worksheets * This is a set of worksheets to help you calculate your total HST bill. New this year: You will be able to pay for your prepaid tickets through TADS. The system will not provide a total price until you have enrolled all your children. At that point, you will not be able to make changes without contacting us. In order to minimize this, we ask that you please download this worksheet and fill it out for planning purposes prior to enrolling.
After you review these documents, we ask that you click the link in the TADS email to enroll. This will bring you to the TADS sign-in page. You will need to sign-in with the email and password that you used last year. The system will then walk you through enrolling your child. If you have a new student to add, please complete their registrations first. You can do this by clicking the Admissions tab at the top and complete that application.
TADS will send you an email for each of the children you had enrolled with HST last year. You only have to click the link for one of these children. Once you have completely enrolled this child, TADS will bring you to a registration page that lists the rest of your children. Click on the numbers next to the remaining children and complete their registrations as well. Please make sure to click on the numbers under the 2020-2021 year. (Last year’s info will still be there.)
*Important registration notes:*
1. The 3rd page asks you to select your student’s grade in school from the pull down menu. This may be adjusted throughout elementary school (e.g. in cases where a student needs to either repeat or skip a grade). However, once you list your student as an 8th grader, your student will be eligible to enroll in HST for up to 5 years (including the 8th grade year). If they skip a grade or graduate early, they have 4 years left.
2. The 6th page is the main page that will allow you to enroll. This is a very busy page. But all parts have to be completed. You should be familiar with parts a, b and c. Part d is NEW and involves the prepaid tickets.
a. *Policies Contract.* You will have to read and agree to each of the 7 parts of this document.
b. *Course Selection*. If you select a class that has a prerequisite or required an audition, you will be prompted to acknowledge that they have met that requirement.
c. *Minimal Requirements*. You must agree that your child meets the minimal requirements listed in the blue box.
d. *Prepaid Ticket Questions*. Please answer ALL of these questions so that the system can calculate your prepaid tickets correctly. Unfortunately, if you have multiple children, you will have to answer each of these questions for each child. TADS will only assign the fees to once. But, please be careful when answering these questions. If there is a discrepancy between the answer you give between the different children, TADS will not charge the prepaid tickets correctly. Please see the important note in the payment notes below for more information.
3. Please note the terms and conditions on the Submit Registration page. Also please be aware of the important note that if you continue forward, you may not make further changes to your course selections without contacting HST directly.
4. Once you have enrolled your first child, you will be brought to a page that lists your other children. Please click on each name and repeat the enrollment process.
5. If the child is not returning, please click that name and indicate this when prompted. You *must* click all through listed names before your family is fully enrolled.
6. Once your family is fully enrolled, you will be brought to the payment agreement page where you can set up payments through TADS.
*Important payment notes*:
1. Payments can only be made by credit card or direct withdrawal from your bank. You will need to select one of these options. You may choose to use the same account you used last year or enter in a different one.
2. If you pay by credit card, TADS will charge you a 3% convenience fee on the entire amount.
3. *IMPORTANT:* Please double check your bill and make sure that the prepaid tickets charged correctly (by comparing to what you calculated using the attached Tuition, Prepaid and Fees Worksheet).
*If there is a discrepancy*, that means that there was an error with how you answered the Prepaid Ticket questions. Follow these steps to fix the problem:
a. Click the “Enrollment” tab at the top of the page. b. Click one of your children’s numbers. c. Click the blue link at the bottom that allows you to edit the enrollment. d. Under the gray box that has your child’s name and registration number, click the “Supplemental” tab. e. Scroll down to the very bottom and check your responses in the Prepaid Ticket section. f. If these are not correct, click the green “Edit Responses” button and edit. g. If they are correct, go to instruction ‘a’ above and check your other children. h. To go back to the billing page, click the “Agreements” tab at the top.
4. When you first register, TADS will charge you the $30 registration fee. This is the only thing that cannot be placed on a payment plan
5. Once you enroll all of your children, you will have the option of selecting a payment plan that splits your tuition over 1, 2, 6, or 10 installments. The details of these payment plans are on the attached Tuition, Prepaid and Fees Worksheet document.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Mena Stell at 410-905-1137 or menamacrina@aol.com
Finally, I would be remiss not to ask for your prayers for God’s guidance as we seek to keep HST afloat during these stormy times. Many thanks & blessings, Marilyn

2020-2021-Class-Chart.pdf
HST-Family-Tuition-Prepaid-and-Fees-Worksheets-2021.pdf

Dear 25th Year HST Families,
The refund forms are attached. Specialty Ticket form includes Prepaid tickets. Please fill in these forms, scan or take a photo and email to *hstalents@gmail.com <hstalents@gmail.com>* by MONDAY, June 1st at midnight.
I know that it is a challenge to make calls to everyone you sold tickets to, but we would greatly appreciate knowing that everyone was offered a refund (instead of assuming they are ok with making a donation).
Blessings, Marilyn

2020-Refund-Form-Discount-Tickets-1.pdf
2020-Refund-Form-Specialty-Tickets.pdf