On May 18, the department hosted about 30 urban students through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities organization.
Carleton alum, Annie Loch (’00), Director of Education and Enrichment, organized a group of both high school (the big brothers/sisters) and elementary (little brothers/little sisters) from Como Park Senior High School, Johnson High School, and Mississippi Magnet Elementary all based in St. Paul to visit campus.
The students were able to get a taste of college life through the following activities:
- Diversity Detective Activity: this was an exercise that encouraged them to interact with Carleton students to answer such questions as “Find the name of a student who is from another country” and “When you think of college students now, what are three words you would use to describe them?”
- kick ball on the Bald spot
- a taste of college—science activity: this involved taking part in an experiment that extracted the DNA of strawberries, mineral identification and looking through the microscopes in the geology lab.
- Their day ended with lunch in the LDC.
All these activities depended on the amazing generosity and creativity of both Carleton students and faculty.
