FCS: Learning, Adapting, Solving Problems with AI

SCAFCS 2025 CONFERENCE 

We enjoyed an incredible SCAFCS 2025 Conference February 19-21 at the Springhill Suites in downtown Greenville, SC. We learned how to implement AI as a tool in various professional applications, we explored updates in the many components of FCS, and we networked with students and professionals from South Carolina. When choosing this topic last year, we never dreamed how poignant Artificial Intelligence would be in the world at this time. 

Those who attended and missed out on notes or details of the presentations, can go to the Conference Updates tab above to find the program and the various speaker presentations. More will be posted shortly. Please submit all presentation and conference surveys. We greatly appreciate your participation.
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​You select which items you need (type of membership on registration, additional lunches or banquet options, Preconference, and/or donations to the Student Education Program Fund through HUGS). To add items, select membership, click add to cart. For more items, click continue shopping in the upper left-hand corner, and add to cart. When finished, click on the cart and continue to payment.  The QR Code is no longer available for direct payment to SCAFCS Square.

What's Happening in SCAFCS?


​Watch the September, 2024 Virtual Town Hall Meeting; see the  YouTube video, note the agenda, and keep up with the SCAFCS plans and opportunities. Click on the "About" Widget above and you will be amazed at what is available and planned for this year. Information concerning future District Meetings and Virtual Town Hall gatherings will be posted soon as well.
Even though FCS Week is over, FCS Elevate opportunities go year around. Use the hashtags when on social media to unite and bring attention to FCS!
                 #FCSWeek and #ElevateFCS. 

Use the following links for Elevate FCS to communicate who we are and why FCS is important.  Many programs are being removed from South Carolina because the parents, administrators, and district officials do not see or hear of the benefits that  FCS provides in homes, communities, and in the state. The Classroom Resources provides terrific activities and visuals for various subjects.

The Apparel, Textiles, & Design Juried Showcase
 AAFCS National Conference
 Kansas City, Missouri 
June 25-27, 2025  

The 2025 Community of Apparel, Textiles, and Design Juried Showcase
Deadline:  January 31, 2025 
Acceptance Notifications: March ? 2025

AAFCS is now accepting entries for the 2025 Apparel, Textiles, and Design Juried Showcase. There is a call for Submissions for the Community of Apparel, Textile and Design Juried Showcase at the 2025 Annual Conference in Kansas City, MO, June 25-27!   AAFCS invites designers, innovators and creators to submit their work for this exceptional event! The Juried Showcase is open to AAFCS members and non-members. 

Designers will showcase their best work in apparel design/clothing & wearable textile art, art & design/fiber/non-fiber, interior design/housing & textile art, and other creative areas. 
Designs may be submitted as:
  • Student Entry - includes undergraduate or graduate students
  • Professional Entry - includes all other entries like faculties, designers, artists, etc.


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An example of the 2019 Catalog is provided here, but a sample of the SCAFCS 2021 Bob Jones University submissions can be seen in the SCAFCS Newsletter November 2021, pp. 9-11 (use the Newsletter widget).
Submission of an entry, or entries, indicates that submitter(s) or sponsoring AAFCS member agree, if accepted, to register for the conference to exhibit and present the work during the Showcase.
Entry submission(s) will include a written design statement/abstract with digital images of the designer's creative works. Entries are being accepted in the categories of:
  • Apparel: this category will include garments or clothing items designed to be worn on the human body in a three-dimensional space. In other words, clothing is shaped and structured to wrap around the body’s contours, allowing for flexibility, movement, and  functionality. Each entry should be a complete/total look covering the upper and lower part of the body.
  • Textile-Based Designs or Accessories: refers to materials or textiles-based design that is produced in two-dimensional forms. This category typically includes scarves (printed, embroidered, intricate woven patterns), hats, gloves, belts, jewelry, etc.
  • Interior: any material used to enhance the interior space of a building. This category will include materials like fiber art, macramé, wall art pieces, lamp shades, home furnishing items etc.
Feel free to share this notice with your colleagues and others who would be interested in showcasing their designs.   Review the following site to identify specifics about the juried showcase and to access submission guidelines, go to: 
https://www.aafcs.org/news-and-events/conferences/annualconf-25/call-for-proposals25/atd25

This site also provides links to the Showcase Guidelines, Showcase rubric, Abstract Template, Abstract Sample, and Submission link.
Checks and donations for the AAFCS Fund Development collection or Donations to sponsor half of student membership for a student through HUGS ($25) can be made out to SCAFCS and sent to the VP Finance, Glenna Mason, 3160 Jackson Drive, Orangeburg, SC 29118.
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 Say YES to FCS: Filling the FCS Educator Pipeline  This initiative is available to encourage      consideration of Family and Consumer Sciences Education as a profession. For more information, please visit      https://www.fcsed.net/fcsed/recruit/recruit-commit 

FACS Faces and Places 
Click here to sign up online for a Data catalog of FACS professionals in SC.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ofFytzECcfBKm2pt3MV01ZzKIs489f2pg8xwqZf80Dw/edit#heading=h.ip3y6982gwwp
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