MindScape will introduce students to a wide range of new instructors who bring a contagious enthusiasm for their subject material to the studies at hand. College professors and students, local artists, business leaders, politicians, and other professionals from the community will be called upon to lead classes. Second, the MindScape Academy will provide area students with additional learning opportunities. The programming will be more in-depth, cover more advanced academic skills, and will allow for topics that require more time to deliver. In addition to the standard curricular offerings, MindScape is also designed to make the jump from high school to college less daunting.
Studies show that most families greatly overestimate the cost of higher education.
This will help families acquire requisite information about admissions procedures, tuition, and financial aid. Experiential learning allows this opportunity to become reality. Huntington College students, in conjunction with community school teachers, may share their knowledge, talents and enthusiasm for their disciplines through the development of teachable units to be offered in the non-traditional classroom setting at Thornhill. Students created teachable units in such topics as orienteering, wetlands, recycling, amphibians, ants, owls, honeybees and trees and shared them with students at Central and Northwest. The response was very positive.