Dates/Time:
November 21, 2003

Details:
Shippensburg University's Honors Program is looking forward to hosting fifty 7th grade Harrisburg GEAR UP students on Saturday, November 1st for Excitement in Education. Designed to introduce middle school students to a college atmosphere, the focus of "E-squared" (E²) is to put a creative spin on learning as the participants engage in hands-on lessons and activities. Students choose from several course offerings during the one-day event. In addition, all students are guided on a tour of the campus and treated to lunch, which they enjoy while interacting informally with the college students. Students in the SU Honors Program organize, plan and implement all aspects of E² as a service to the Harrisburg Schools.

The GEAR UP staff is happy to arrange for our students to attend this valuable campus experience. After the success of our collaboration last spring, the Honors Program will offer the program twice this year, more than doubling the number of students who are able to participate.

Last year’s participants expressed their enjoyment of touring the campus and “being taught in a fun way.” One teacher chaperone remarked that the reading and writing strategies taught in one session “provoked students to stretch their imaginations without pressure,” and indicated she would encourage students to attend in the future.