Pittsburg State University releases fall honor rolls
Pittsburg State University has released the honor rolls for the 2020 fall semester. To qualify for Deans Scholastic Honors, a student must complete at least 12 semester hours, receive a grade point average (GPA) of 3.6 for all credit course work that semester and have no grade lower than a B and no grade of I in any course during the semester. To qualify for All-A Scholastic Honors, a student must complete at least 12 semester hours, receive a grade of A in all credit course work for the semester and have no grade of I in any course during the semester.
PSU offers summer camps for kids
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From construction to nature, Pittsburg State University is once again offering a variety of summer fun learning opportunities for youth after putting those programs on hold last summer during the pandemic. COVID-19 mitigation measures will be in place.
Robotics/Construction
The Department of Engineering Technology and School of Construction will offer summer workshops with hands-on experiences for children ages 9 to 14. They are taught by faculty in the College of Technology.
Level I of Robotics camp will be held from 9 a.m. to noon July 12 to 16; Level II will be held 9 a.m. to noon July 19 to 23. Topics to be covered include teamwork, programming, brainstorming, construction techniques, robotic basics and electro-mechanics. Campers will build robots using LEGO Mindstorm and camp will culminate in a competition.
Education Briefs: Hope Summer Repertory Theatre gets new education director
Sentinel Staff
HOLLAND Hope Summer Repertory Theatre is welcoming a new member to its leadership team this summer. Laura Matthews will join as director of education.
Matthews has been a teaching artist, actor and director in Chicago since 2012, working with theaters and schools such as Porchlight Music Theatre, Emerald City Theatre, Elmhurst College, Roosevelt University and American Theatre Company.
During the academic year, Laura is the visiting professor of theatre at Blackburn College. She holds an MFA in pedagogy and performance from Virginia Commonwealth University and bachelor’s degree in musical theatre and interdisciplinary communication studies from Elmhurst college. She is currently training and studying to be an intimacy choreographer.
Students collaborate to create first ‘PSU Campus-Community Green Guide’
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PITTSBURG, Kan. Students in the Department of Communication at Pittsburg State University have been working to develop the first “PSU Campus-Community Green Guide” with input from the Pittsburg business community and the Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce.
“The guide will be a tool to increase awareness of the ‘green’ community within our region and efforts here at Pitt State,” project leader Emily Ruble, a senior from Independence, Kansas, said in a press release.
Using a grant provided by the PSU Student Sustainability Fee Council, she and her classmates in Alicia Mason’s Strategic Communication class will make the guide available to future incoming students and the public through the university’s sustainability webpage starting this fall.
LITTLE BALKANS CHRONICLES One of their kids
J.T. Knoll
It’s been said that once a school teacher has you in their class, he or she will forever more think of you as “one of my kids.” This week’s chronicle, by Chris Polsak, speaks to the compliment of that. Which is to say, no matter how old we get, once we are in certain teachers’ classes, we continue to think of ourselves as “one of their kids.” J.T.K.
“To teach is to touch a life forever.”
I am not sure if it was Susie or Babs Tims’ classroom where I first read this sign in the 1980s at Lakeside Elementary. Possibly a gift from a former student, this sign served as a daily reminder to them of the significance of their profession as well as motivation to get them through their difficult days.