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Snow storm wrecks Scholastic Day

Eagle Staff

Only 177 high school students out of the 1,150 students attended Scholastic Day, Friday, due to winter weather.
“To be honest, there were a few minutes where I was thinking that we probably should have canceled it,” Director of Market Development and Co-Chair of Scholastic Day Danielle Lecher said. “However, I do know that we had one school that had driven in on Thursday night and was staying the night at a hotel.”
Along with one school committed to the competition, Lecher said two other schools said they were coming no matter what. A total of nine schools showed out of the initial 42. A rush of school cancellations came in on Friday morning, but at that time it was too late to cancel the event.
Although the turnout for Scholastic Day was not as anticipated, Lecher said that it was a good way to test out new changes that the Scholastic Day committee made for this year.
After Lecher and Director of Admissions Lisa Stein joined the committee, Scholastic Day started a focus on recruitment.
T-shirts were provided to students in order to help with recruitment. The committee also took advantage of the student ambassadors in having them help with checking in schools and escorting students to their test sites.
“We wanted to make sure that they checked in with someone and were greeted so that they could give everyone their information and knew everything that was available to them, including escorts to the testing locations, which was not really provided before, and a list of activities. It also helped us know who was here and who was not,” Lecher said.
Other changes include a revamped activities schedule with the help of Megan Northrup, the student activities coordinator, and additional communications leading up to the event. A club fair was also added to Scholastic Day which proved to be “a really good showcase of what we do at CSC.”
Despite the weather, Lecher believes the event went well for the schools that attended. She is ready to test the new changes to Scholastic Day next year with a larger group of students.