The University of Colorado at Boulder and Front Range Community College have formed a partnership to host a "Breakfast of Champions" for metro-area eighth-graders on Tuesday, Oct. 17.
About 80 students and their teachers will have breakfast with CU-Boulder student athletes, coaches and faculty members in addition to FRCC faculty members. Coach Ricardo Patton will join basketball, cross country, track and field and soccer athletes to talk with the eighth-graders about the importance of education.
A CU alumni and science presenter, Steve Spangler, will give the keynote address on "The Wonder of Discovery." After breakfast, students will tour the CU-Boulder campus and then travel to the FRCC Longmont campus for lunch and hands-on workshops.
The Breakfast of Champions will be held from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. in CU-Boulder's Dal Ward Athletic Center, room 250, followed by a campus tour from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
FRCC will host the students for lunch and workshops from 12:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. at its Longmont campus, 2255 N. Main St.
The activities are aimed at exciting metro-area eighth-graders about attending college. Many of these students would be the first in their families to attend college. Â鶹ÒùÔº will be provided with information about attending courses at FRCC during high school to help prepare them for higher education.