Shadow Day at EEE for High School Students
04/02/2007
Excerpted from The Columbia Record, April 16, 2007:
Columbia graduate students usually work under the wings of a professor, but on April 2 they became flock leaders to 38 high school students who spent the day at various schools throughout the University. On “Shadow Day,” high school students from New York and New Jersey spent the day following Columbia graduate students in the fields of accounting, business, communications, criminal justice, education, engineering, French, fashion design, journalism, medicine, and psychology. Jonathan Alarcón (left) of Performing Artsand Technology High School in Brooklyn and Diego Morello (center) from John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx shadowed Heidi Butterman (right), an environmental engineering student. The Shadow Day participants are all recipients of college scholarships from the Los Padres Foundation, which sponsored the event for students of Puerto Rican descent who will be the first in their families togo to college. The Los Padres Foundation was founded by CU law alumnus Edgar Rios, ’77, and his wife Lillian.
The Shadow Day event took place in the Combustion and Catalysis Laboratory –
Marco J. Castaldi, Director