8:30 – 9:00 | Registration & Continental Breakfast (Finalists ONLY) | |
9:00 – 10:00 | Intro to 355:101 Expository Writing with Michael Goeller (Finalists Only)Michael Goeller is an Associate Director of the Rutgers Writing Program and Plangere Writing Center Coordinator, in charge of writing tutoring at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. His latest focus is helping students make the transition to college writing. He helps to run the Writers House Teachers College, which trains high school teachers to better prepare their students for college standards. He also heads up the Plangere Culture Lab, which makes educational films for high school and college audiences for the Rutgers Writing Program and Writers House (some of which are available at http://itunes.rutgers.edu. He is currently directing a documentary film titled 'Expos,' which follows five Rutgers first-year students as they try to succeed in Expository Writing at Rutgers. | |
10:00 – 11:30 | Final RoundFinalists will complete an essay assignment and take a writing placement test. Results of the essays and placement test will determine the scholarship winners. | |
11:30 – 1:00 | Lunch with David Bianculli, author and television critic (Finalists ONLY)David Bianculli has been a television critic for more than thirty years, currently on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and at www.tvworthwatching.com. His latest book, Dangerously Funny The Uncensored Story of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” a “rollicking history of the rise and fall of the wildly influential ‘60’s TV show and its lasting influence on the cultural landscape,” was published in December, 2009 by Touchstone. He is also the author of two books on television and its impact: Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously and Dictionary of Teleliteracy: Television’s 500 Biggest Hits, Misses, and Events. Bianculli is an associate professor of Radio, Television and Film in the College of Communication at Rowan University. | |
1:00 – 2:00 | Walking Tour and Scavenger Hunt | 1:30 – 2:00 | Semi-Finalist Check-in |
2:00 – 3:00 | Awards Ceremony | |
3:00 – 4:00 | Refreshments |