Media Advisory: Friday, May 24, 2013
300 school children become ‘college students’ for a day
Local K-6th grade students take first steps onto a college campus
WHAT To motivate and get grade school students excited about going to college, schoolchildren from five Los Angeles Unified School District schools will have an opportunity to step foot on a college campus for the first time Friday, May 24, during “Cal State L.A., Here We Come!“ The event will introduce the 300 elementary students to what it is like to be “college students” for a day.
MORE: The visit is the culmination of the Cal State L.A. Educational Participation in Communities (EPIC) program’s America Reads/America Counts program, in which CSULA students provide academic assistance at the schools to children whose achievement levels are below standard.
WHO: The kindergarten through sixth-grade students will come from the following Los Angeles schools:
99th Street Elementary, 9900 S. Wadsworth St., 90002
Ann Elementary, 126 E. Bloom St., 90012
Anton Elementary, 438 N. Brannick Ave., 90063
Robert F. Kennedy Elementary, 4010 E. Ramboz Dr., 90063
Huntington Dr. Elementary, 435 N. Huntington Dr., 90032
WHEN: Friday, May 24, 2013, 9:30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m.
9:30-10 a.m. … Welcome by CSULA in Eagles Nest Gym, campus tours
10 a.m. – 11:30 … Featured presentations:
Anthropology Research (King Hall 4075 or 4077)
Basketball, indoor soccer & volleyball team demos (Gym)
Fire technology (Salazar Hall C165)
Giving Tree-Planting the College Seed (King Hall D 1055)
Physics demonstration (Salazar Hall C162)
11:30-12:15 … Lunch in Golden Eagle food court
12:30– 1:20 p.m. … Spirit rally
WHERE: Various locations at California State University, Los Angeles. The University is located at the intersection of the 10 and 710 freeway.
MEDIA: To cover the story in person, call (323) 343-3050. To make photo arrangements, please contact Victoria Mosqueda by cellphone at (323) 640-6884 or office phone at (323) 343-3380.
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