Here the students were allowed to shop, stroll, dine, and attend movies. The final day of the trip the students toured the University of Minnesota and went to the Valley Fair Amusement Park. The MSIP students took their merit trip to Kansas City during the same time period. Leaving early in the morning, the group took a lunch break at St Joseph, MO. before traveling on to their first stop, the NCAA Hall of Champions. Here the students learned about college students who succeed in sports.
Most professional athletes come to their profession through their college experience.
In the evening, the MSIP group attended a dinner theater where they saw a production of Gypsy. On Thursday, the students toured Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. In the afternoon, they departed for Worlds of Fun, an amusement park. They spent the evening there, returning to the hotel about 10 pm. Friday morning they went to Devry Institute, a technology school with many different career fields.