HPJ Social Studies Day Makes Piqua Daily Call

A group of high school students from Piqua attended the 3rd ONU HPJ Social Studies Day on April 12.  The day featured talks by ONU students who attended the Republican and Democratic National Conventions or worked for presidential campaigns.  Students included Robert Roll, Katie Deeter, John Curiel, James Lee, Nicke Hills, Joe Railey, and John Willamowski.  Former OH Supreme Court Justice and ONU alum Robert Cupp also spoke about his career in politics. The trip was previewed in the Piqua Daily Call which ran the following story.

PIQUA - Piqua High School's ONU Dual Enrollment Social Science classes are taking a field trip Friday to Ohio Northern University to hear a variety of lectures about the government.
Dustin Hornbeck, teacher at PHS, is taking his ONU Sociology and American History classes on the trip. They will leave PHS at 7:35 a.m. and they will not return until after school. The lectures they will be hearing are about the last election, and youth in government and politics. They also will be hearing a speech delivered by a former Ohio Supreme Court Justice, Robert Cupp.
After the speeches, students will indulge in a college-cafeteria buffet, free of charge. This is the third trip in two years where Hornbeck has taken students to hear speeches at Ohio Northern.
"I hope by taking the students on this trip, they will have enlightening conversations showing the importance of social sciences in the real world," he said.

One of the students going on the trip is Cara Long. "I'm looking forward to the free college food buffet that we get after some of the speeches. I went on one of the trips last year, and I remember the speeches were extremely interesting and I found myself taking notes on the notepads they gave us last year. It was really cool and professional," she said.

The ONU students did their usual bang up job in their presentations and it was great to have Justice Cupp back on campus!

Well done all!