Media Advisory: Friday, May 29, 2009; 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Cal State L.A.’s labs, courtyard, gym and classrooms
‘Cal State L.A., Here We Come!’ An introduction to college for K-6th students
325 schoolchildren are ‘college students’ for a day
Note to editors and news directors: Coming from five Los Angeles Unified School District elementary schools, the kindergarten through sixth-grade students will be on campus Friday, May 29, for a Cal State L.A.-style school day. Reporters are welcome to join them. To make photo arrangements, please contact Victoria Mosqueda by cellphone at (323) 640-6884 or office phone at (323) 343-3380.
After the students unload from the buses, they will scatter across campus for a hands-on volcano activity, lessons on the science of tie-dye and invisible ink, an exploration of archaeological artifacts and fossils, a tour of the crime lab and a book garden, a health talk, a pep rally, sports demonstrations and 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 Cal State L.A. students provide academic assistance at the schools to children who are below grade level.
The schoolchildren will come from the following Los Angeles schools:
99th Street Elementary, 9900 S. Wadsworth St., 90002
Ann Elementary, 126 E. Bloom St., 90012
Hammel Elementary, 438 N. Brannick Ave., 90063
Robert F. Kennedy Elementary, 4010 E. Ramboz Dr., 90063
Huntington Dr. Elementary, 435 N. Huntington Dr., 90032
WHAT: “Cal State L.A., Here We Come!“ and 325 K-6th-grade students
WHEN: Friday, May 29, 2009
9 - 9:45 a.m. : buses arrive
9:45 a.m.: welcome in Eagles Nest Gym
10 a.m. - noon: demos/activities; some highlights:
Anthropology lab, King Hall D 3069
Basketball and volleyball demos, Gym
Geography lab (volcano activity),
Physical Sciences 235
Science (tie-dye and invisible ink
presentation), La Kretz Hall 157
Book Garden, King Hall Courtyard
Noon - 12:50 p.m. lunch in Golden Eagle food court
1 - 1:25 p.m. Spirit rally in gym, with Golden Eagle Mascot
and cheerleaders
WHERE: Various locations at California State University, Los Angeles. The University is located at the intersection of the 10 and 710 freeway.
# # #
Working for California since 1947: The 175-acre hilltop campus of California State University, Los Angeles is at the heart of a major metropolitan city, just five miles from Los Angeles’ civic and cultural center. More than 20,000 students and 205,000 alumni—with a wide variety of interests, ages and backgrounds—reflect the city’s dynamic mix of populations. Six colleges offer nationally recognized science, arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and humanities programs, among others, led by an award-winning faculty. Cal State L.A. is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra and to a unique university center for gifted students as young as 12. Programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and community include an NEH- and Rockefeller-supported humanities center; a NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science program, housed in the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center. www.calstatela.edu