Friday, December 25, 2015
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Several business set up tables during the "Get Schooled" event. Several children gathered around the 3D printing table to see how a 3D printer works.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.The Austintown Fitch students participated in different game day activities. They got to walk the ice during intermission and throw shirts into the crowd.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Ten students from Austintown Fitch High School's Future Business Leaders of America program spent the day job shadowing different departments at the Covelli Centre.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Austintown Fitch students Austin (left) and Sarah attend a Youngstown Phantoms game on Dec. 2 for the "Get Schooled" program.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
The Covelli Centre hosted the “Get Schooled” event for schools across the area on Dec. 1. This is the first time this event has taken place and the amount of students from various schools was much larger than first anticipated.
Katie Seminara, director of game day operations for the Youngstown Phantoms, organized the event allowing the Austintown Fitch students to participant in the activities that make the game fun. Ten students from Austintown Fitch High School, part of the Future Business Leaders of America, shadowed Seminara and other workers at the Covelli Centre during a Phantoms hockey game.
Businesses from around the Youngstown area set up tables for the students to visit while they attended the Phantoms game.
Two 3D tables received a lot of attention. Many people gathered around the tables and observed how the 3D printer worked.
The workers running the tables were open to talking about how businesses are managed gave advice to those looking for it.
“It makes me realize I only have one more year left, we have to be prepared. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do coming up this year, now it’s more like I want to do something more on the business side,” said Austin, a junior at Austintown, after experiencing how the business side of hockey games work.
The students said their favorite part of the day was when they threw shirts into the crowd and when they walked on the ice during intermissions. The all agreed that it was fun being able to miss a day of school.
The students were taken aback by how quickly the Covelli Centre staffed worked through the chaos during the entire game, especially during the morning when all of the different schools arrived.
“I’m just so amazed by how much work they are able to handle at one time,” Sarah, a senior at Austintown, said.
Opportunities are still available for schools looking to participate in this kind of event.
“Schools can contact us if they’re interested. We would be happy to host them during any game,” said Seminara.