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Show MORE PROJECTS. Upward Bound students setting up bleachers at the Cedar City baseball diamonds, one of many service ser-vice projects planned for this summer. Service projects added to Upward Bound group Service projects have been added to an already busy summer schedule for the 56 students enrolled in the Upward Bound program at Southern Utah State College. The group recently spent an afternoon setting up bleachers at the City Baseball Diamond and another morning and evening setting up and taking down Red Cross equipment at the Elks Lodge for the last community blood drive. "These and several ad- ditional service projects are being undertaken to enable the Upward Bound students to meet new people and to acquire a sense of community com-munity spirit," Celeste Denton, Upward Bound Director, said. "Community service projects and other special activities are part of the total Upward Bound Program which is designed to encourage low income high school students to develop enthusiasm for learning and to seek post secondary education," she said. During their June 29 -August 5 stay at the host-institution, host-institution, SUSC, Upward Bounders participate in a rigorous program of academic classes and special programs. They attend classes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. All students are enrolled in English reading, science and mathematics classes, filling in the remainder of their in-1 class time with electives selected from coursts in pottery, karate, art, business, and physical education. Fifteen of the Upward Bounders are "Bridge Students" who graduated from high school this spring. They are enrolled in regular SUSC Summer School classes as SUSC freshmen and also participate in many of the Upward Bound activities. ac-tivities. All academic credit earned by the high school students while they attend the summer program are added to their high school graduation . requirements. "Classes are taught using the team-teaching approach which makes the ratio of students to teachers four to one," Denton said. In addition to academic work, Upward Bound students participate in a number of special weekend outings. They recently returned from a vocational trip to Salt Lake City where they joined Upward Bound students from the University of Utah for intermural contests and a visit to the Hansen Planetarium. Other weekend trips have included a fishing trip and overnight hike at Navajo Lake and a weekend horseback hor-seback riding, hiking excursion ex-cursion into the Manti-La Sal National Forest. They will spend one week camping at Puffer Lake in the Beaver Mountains. During that time they will be doing a three-day service project for the Forest Service Ser-vice in addition to hiking, fishing, outdoor survival training and other environmental-oriented activities. ac-tivities. Students involved in the summer program are from Parowan, Beaver, Cedar, Kanab, Panguitch, Milford, and Bryce Valley high schools in Utah; from Tuba City and Monument Valley high schools in Arizona; and from Paranagut High School in Alamo, Nevada. |