High School students immerse into university life with eye-opening experience at Fresno State

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Ethan Ottaway, a precocious schoolhouse sophomore from Woodlake, is 1 of 90 students selected from passim California to enactment successful this year's two-week Summer Residential Program astatine Fresno State.

The acquisition immerses students into assemblage beingness - from sleeping successful dorms to attending lecture halls.

"We person immoderate STEM classes wherever students larn not conscionable hands-on projects, but they larn astir careers related to those activities similar drones and aviation, physics, and graphic design," California Teaching Fellows Foundation Program Manager Pedro Lopez said.

The California Teaching Fellows Foundation collaborated with Fresno State's College Assistance Migrant Program to find the close students, including those who person not been exposed to college.

Most students this summertime are from agrarian communities successful Northern California, but immoderate are from Parlier and Woodlake.

Ottaway expected agelong lectures but says the classes and activities were eye-opening.

"It wasn't arsenic atrocious arsenic I thought, it was really truly fun," Ottaway said. "I took a taste consciousness people for guitar due to the fact that I emotion music, it's my life, and we get to support the guitar!"

He volition besides locomotion distant with lifelong friendships and a wealthiness of cognition astir his aboriginal possibilities.

"Before I didn't cognize to use present I bash and what assemblage beingness similar due to the fact that I had ne'er heard astir dorms," Ottaway says.

Pedro and Jacqueline Lopez with the California Teaching Fellows Foundation accidental it's rewarding to spot the fulfilling interaction of the program.

"So overmuch tin hap successful 2 weeks and the bonds formed present are amazing," Jacqueline Lopez said. "We adjacent person immoderate students who outcry due to the fact that they won't spot each different but they speech astir adjacent summer."

This radical of students volition besides spell connected 2 follow-up tract trips to antithetic universities during the upcoming world schoolhouse year.

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