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Dr. Michael Casson, DSU associate professor of accounting, teaches Kingswood Community Center youth about the finer points of entrepreneurshp.
In this photo: Dr. Michael Casson, DSU associate professor of accounting, teaches Kingswood Community Center youth about the finer points of entrepreneurshp.
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Kingswood youths’ enrichment day at DSU

Friday, July 20, 2018

Delaware State University recently hosted a Riverside Agri-Science and Technology Youth Camp as an academic enrichment experience that also exposed the Wilmington-area middle school-age youth to the University’s campus.

Youth from the Kingswood Community Center in Wilmington visited DSU on July 18, where they experienced a wide range of enrichment activities, including how vegetables and fruit can be grown in a greenhouse, DNA extraction in a molecular genetics lab, brain activity in the University’s Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research, as well as lessons in entrepreneurship.

Moreover, the youths were able to get a feel what it is like to be on a university campus. Dr. Dorothy Dillard, chair of the DSU Department of Sociology, said it’s never too soon to start thinking about and experiencing college. 

“In their day on campus, they conducted experiments, touched brains, made a business plan and made a fruit pizza, and even had lunch at the campus cafeteria,” Dr. Dillard said. “Now that they’ve been to college for a day, they can start planning their college career.”