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"Ok, everyone repeat after me! (speaking Latin)
(teacher and students speaking Latin)
Christina: This is a college-level Latin class
being taught on a college campus.
(Latin speaking)
Christina: But the students here are
not college students.
They're highly motivated fourth through ninth
graders, eager for a challenge.
Brian: Donuts. . . .
(laughter)
Jack: It's a very complex and interesting language
that we're learning.
Sometimes it's a little hard,
because you're at college material,
even though I'm in 8th grade.
It's also, I feel proud, because I'm able to handle
this information even though it's really five years
ahead of me.
Christina: Jack is one of about sixteen hundred
students spending the summer with Academic Talent Search.
Located on the Sacramento State campus,
the program gives youngsters a glimpse
of the college life.
Scarlet: It's set up just like college where they get
to pick and choose classes based on their interest,
or if they're just curious about a class,
or if they want to delve deeper into
a subject matter.
Some of the more unique classes that we have
are a 'saving lives' class.
Those kids can learn on these mannequins that
simulate maybe a heart attack,
or a broken limb.
Nurse: gonna put his thumb right through. . .
If they're really into math they can take a five week
math class and earn a year's worth of credit.
Or they can learn a foreign language,
like Japanese for five weeks.
That's a whole year's worth.
Brian: A lot of the classes we teach aren't classes
that students can really get elsewhere,
and so the students that I get are students that really
want to learn.
The junior high students that we have,
the sixth to ninth graders, exceed your typical high
school student and probably even a lot of the college
students, I would imagine, in their ability to take in
the information, to learn the information at a very
rapid pace.
(Brayden acting on stage) (Stuttering)
Christina: Brayden attends a middle school
without a drama department.
So for him, an acting class offered by
Academic Talent Search lets him explore his passion.
Um, miss Grant, excuse me, I just have to interrupt.
Brayden: I've always been really interested in,
um, acting and theater and drama.
I thought this would just advance my skills.
It's so much different in a college atmosphere because
the classes are a lot bigger,
um, obviously a lot longer.
(laughs)
I see other college students, actual college students,
and it makes me feel like I'm one of them,
I fit in with them.
I feel a lot cooler (laughs).
Terry: The students are treated pretty much like
college students so they get a sense of freedom and
independence and that, uh, is kind of hard to duplicate
in any regular school setting.
Christina: Sacramento State professor Terry Thomas
founded the Academic Talent Search program in 1982 with
a group of kids who wanted to learn advanced math.
In the three decades since then,
more than 44,000 students have given the college
experience a try.
Terry: They have fun with it.
They, they like, uh, going up the escalator,
getting a mocha at the snack shop and
being treated pretty much like a kid.
Student: ah chew
They might forget the class but they'll remember the
experience of being on a college campus.
Christina: Sacramento State's College of Education
donates the classroom space for the program,
which is otherwise self-supported by tuition.
The college's dean, Alexander Sidorkin,
says the university benefits on several levels.
Alexander: First it's uh, exposure,
early exposure for many kids to the campus space
and environment and they get a taste
of how college looks like.
So uh, hopefully they'll keep us in mind when they
grow up and become applying to colleges.
And we also love to have kids around
in our buildings.
Nurse: Let's move some of that
into the middle and add bbq - or is that all bbq?
-There's some bbq in there at the bottom.
-Darken it at the middle because usually the middle
is darker and you get the red around the edges.
Christina: Students in this class are busy creating fake
wounds that they will then learn to how to bandage.
This hands-on experience...
already has 12-year-old Brooke thinking about a
potential career.
Brooke: At this point, I'm trying to just try a lot of
new things, so that I can understand where
I want to specialize, and just experiencing
everything that I can.
If decide to go into healthcare,
um, this class, the Science of Saving Lives,
will definitely be really helpful.
Terry: We've had a lot of feedback from parents
and kids themselves after they've been with us that
it's made a difference to them individually.
That, uh, in terms of their career,
many times they choose their college majors based on the
experiences they had at Sac State.
Danielle: I mean, just give it a little more dimensions.
Christina: Danielle Villaluna is one alumna
whose life was shaped by the experience.
The college junior returned to Academic Talent Search
to work as a teaching assistant for the same
art class she took as a seventh grader.
Danielle: I used to sit in these same chairs,
maybe the same classroom too.
I used to sit here and create art and that's how
I started getting into art, so it's really kind of exciting
to see that same excitement coming back into those kid's
eyes because I used to feel that when I was sitting in
their place.
Brayden: What I would tell everybody else about this
program is it's a great experience,
it's a lot of fun, um, you get to meet a lot of new
people, um, you're in a totally different
atmosphere, um, it's, it's just completely
life changing.
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