SYRACUSE – IT Central Students went on yet another (mis)adventure today when the group, with students from South Kortright HS, met at the Schine Student Center to get a tour of Syracuse University.The tour was hosted graciously by GEAR UP who also provided lunch. After lunch, Alice Roberson, the Director of NYS GEARUP, and Paul Turner, the Director of NYS GEARUP for SUNY Cobleskill, gave small speeches about getting ready for college. Roberson spoke mainly about NYS GEARUP and Turner talked about the four different types of financial aid.
After Roberson and Turner's energizing speeches, students from IT Central and South Kortright began socializing. As the students mingled, a dance contest of sorts was brewing in the middle of the lunchroom's basement.
Students from South Kortright are motivated to get a post-secondary education as we learned in our series of interviews. Katherine Dixon wants to attend Ithica College and Tanner Metzko, a South Kortright Senior, is looking at SUNY schools.
After a short time of mingling with the South Kortright students, we were split into groups based on school and led on a tour around the campus. The IT Central tour was lead by three SU students, Gaby, Emily and Eric. They introduced us to many of popular buildings on campus. We were shown the Newhouse School, Steele Hall, Carnegie Library, Hendricks Chapel, Crouse College, College of Law, and many student’s favorite: The Carrier Dome. An activity that most IT Central students participated in at the Dome was jumping between the columns. The students were both amazed and fascinated to find out that jumping in the columns of the dome caused a reverberating echo.
The tour guides also discussed the many extracurricular campus activities that can be done on the SU Quad. Activities such as sledding with a cafeteria tray in the winter, the myths of the kissing bench, outdoor activities (such as Frisbee, and Cricket), and the various clubs. The clubs ranged to everything from extreme, like rugby club, to weird, like people watching club. It was a great day for a tour in SU as it was a bright and sunny day.
The year is moving very quickly, and we, the junior class, must now be more aware of the resources like GEAR UP. As we work to be a 21st century technological school, we must prepare for a post-secondary education. More opportunities like this trip are essential as they can finalize our decisions and ensure a secure future. We need to step up our game in the academic field just like we are doing on the football field and go shoot for success.
Written by Sanjeev Kumar
Photos by Amanda Williams, SU
Trivia! (Prizes too!)
Use all your resources to answer these four questions correctly. Tech Know will buy the winner pizza on Friday. In order to compete post your answers in a comment below along with your name and homeroom teacher classroom number.
- What does GEAR UP stand for?
- What are the four types of financial aids?
- What University is a competitor against the SI New House school of Communications?
- Which famous politician graduated from the SU School of Law?
- (BONUS-For a Soda?)What is the only building on the SU campus without a name associated with it?
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