Today was Scholar’s Day at Monmouth College, a day the school calls a “festival of the mind.”
Classes were cancelled for a day of recognizing excellence in student scholarship and art.
Scholar’s Day’s main event took place in the Center for Science Business where nearly 100 students from a cross section of majors stood in front of their research to present to passerbys.
Nearly 100 students representing fields of study from biology to theatre lined the CSB hallways to discuss their work.
One of those was Amy Ward an English major who for her honors history class did her project on President Ronald Reagan’s “Tear down this wall” speech.
“I think the fact that they really worked to make it about Gorbachev and about a direct challenge to the Soviet Union,” Ward says. “I really think that made it more influential.”
Senior physics major’s Dushon Moore’s project was on an ideal approach to teaching physics.
By interactively engaging students through short educational videos Moore says that students can better process information at their own speed.
While Moore came to Monmouth to study physics in recent years he’s been focusing on a teaching career and with that how he can use tools like his videos.
“I plan on teaching in an impoverished community and so I’ve got to think, would I need internet for these videos, can students watch these videos at home or do I want to watch them at school,” Moore says.
Scholar’s Day also included an honors convocation, a book discussion and a concert from the Monmouth College Pipe Band.
