STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT COLLEGE 'DAY OF PLAY' A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT CAREERS.Byline: Daily News CAMARILLO Camarillo (kă'mərē`yō), city (1990 pop. 52,303), Ventura co., S Calif.; inc. 1964. It is the center of a fertile farm area where citrus fruits and flowers are grown. - It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have called ``A Day of Play,'' but it actually gives Ventura Ventura (vĕnt  `rə), city (1990 pop. 92,575), seat of Ventura co., SW Calif., on the Pacific coast in a farm and oil region; inc. 1866. County students a chance to sit down with college
students and talk about future careers.
For the third year, juniors and seniors from the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Marshall School of Business The Marshall School of Business (also known as USC Marshall School of Business) is the business school at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. will join with high school student mentors from Big Brothers Big Sisters to get Ventura County students excited about college. The elementary and high school students will join those from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission on April 9 at Los Altos Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. Middle School in Camarillo for a day of activities designed to teach the young ones how they, too, can go on to college and succeed. ``Working with Big Brothers Big Sisters gives the USC business students a chance to give back to the community while learning to apply and teach important business skills to young children,'' said Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. Turrill, professor of clinical management and organization at the Marshall School of Business. ``It's a win-win situation.'' Some of the elementary school elementary school: see school. students will be from Ramona Elementary School in Oxnard, attending with their high school mentors in the School Based Mentoring Program. Other students come from throughout the county as part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County program. ``We expect around 75 Ventura County students to participate,'' said Sally Valderrama, spokeswoman for Big Brothers Big Sisters. USC business students are encouraged, as part of their course work, to apply what they learn about leadership and teamwork (product, software, tool) Teamwork - A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations. in real-life situations. ``A Day of Play'' uses science, art, and physical activities along with the Big Brothers Big Sisters model of one-to-one mentoring. This year, USC students will be giving a talk during lunch on the value of a college education, where they came from, how they got scholarships and college life outside the classroom. ``I think this program puts a picture in the minds of elementary school students about what college life is really like,'' said Lynne West, director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County. ``We want to give them a flavor of the total experience of what college is like, and to hear from the college students the road they took to get there.'' ``College is more than just academics. These kids know what it's like to go to school. This program shows them what college life is like outside the classroom: the clubs, the social activities, the cultural diversity. ``A lot of the students from USC have talked to them about scholarship opportunities. Some of those who come from families where no one has ever gone to college, this is a chance to meet someone who is really in college and can give them a real perspective on it.'' West said USC is trying to encourage minority and low-income students to apply to USC, so everyone involved in this program gets some kind of benefit. ``Some of the college students last year had a blast and said they thought they gained more out of the experience than the elementary school students did,'' she said. HOW TO HELP For more information about the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in Ventura County, call (805) 644-6792. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, box Photo: (1) Members of USC Marshall School of Business play a game with local elementary school children. (2) Art projects keep members of USC Marshall School of Business and local elementary school children busy. Box: HOW TO HELP (see text) |
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