Road to the White House 2020 Student Symposium in Poynter Corner....Fulbright Association...#FITN #RTWH2020

On February 25th, we held a Road to the White House 2020 student symposium in the Poynter Corner of our USFSP Library.  What a great turnout!


Special Thanks to the USFSP Center for Civic Engagement and to the Fulbright Association for co-sponsoring this event.

I was so proud of the students who shared their experiences working on the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire.

We had a diverse group of student presenters -- freshmen to seniors, from St. Pete and Tampa Campuses, from a variety of majors (e.g., Finance, Psychology, Political Science) who worked on a variety of campaigns (Yang, Warren, Klobuchar, Trump, Biden, and Buttigieg).

I am sorry we did not record this event so you could hear from the student panel -- their reflections about New Hampshire, about grassroots campaigns, about the presidential nominating process

I should point out, however, that every student has been blogging about their experiences:
 https://www.usfsp.edu/road-to-the-white-house/2020-student-blogs/
 
And we are working on a book and a video about the course. These will be shared here on the blog when ready. (April?)


For more about the Fulbright Association, see https://fulbright.org/

For more about the USFSP Center for Civic Engagement, see https://www.usfsp.edu/center-for-civic-engagement/  and follow the CCE on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usfspcce/

Amela Malkic -- President of the Mid-Florida Chapter of the Fulbright Association -- kicking off the event

 

 

 

Before our class got underway -- we had The Washington Center representative, who was on campus for the day -- as a special guest -- already one RTWH 2020 student has applied and was accepted into the program