Select high-schoolers experiencing college this week at YSU

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

It’s been nearly a decade since Youngstown State University began hosting events that over the years have transformed into the annual Summer Honors Institute Week for selected high-schoolers.

“The purpose of the institute is to give high-schoolers who have been identified as talented and gifted the opportunity to come to YSU so they might see what it is like to be on a college campus, and to also experience a different type of learning environment than they are used to,” said Doug Price, associate professor of chemical engineering and one of the institute’s program coordinators.

Some 70 students from area high schools are participating in the week long event, which runs until Friday. Participants spend the week in various classes and activities such as musical theater, acting, entrepreneurship, potato cannon, engineering, crime scene investigation and finance.

The only cost for the institute is $75, which covered student lunches throughout the week.

Read more about the program in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.