The Third Annual Swim Meet of Life Long Learners is happening on April 15, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the basement of Building 8.
Casie Morris, Sinclair student, is directing this event for one of the classes that she is taking. She talks about the main goal of the class for this semester.
“We are from the Health Promotion and Sports Programming class, and [this event] is part of the class. It’s a semester long project, and for us as a class it’s about developing and learning how to develop programs,” Morris said.
The event was originally put on by the Life Long Learners, but then transitioned into a class project three years ago. According to Morris, a lot has to go into an event such as this.
“Implementation, marketing, finding the participants, staffing it, getting the equipment needs, and actually hosting the event,” Morris said.
Even with all of this to handle, Morris said she felt like in the future this could be something that she would want to do and/or be a part of.
“I took it on because I’m an honor student, I’m in a leadership society, and I’m trying to get scholarships. I always volunteer for everything first, and I, of course, shot my hand up the first day—I didn’t realize that it is a big ordeal,” Morris said.
Since the project started, Morris has been leading the whole class and dealing out jobs, but she has been getting help along the way—she isn’t doing this alone. However, she said she feels that everything is going well.
Morris said this event is so important because of the diversity in students at Sinclair. She said not only the racial differences matter, but the age differences do as well.
“Aside from cultural diversity, we have students who are juniors in high school all the up to, I think, we have an eighty three year old maybe who’s in that class. To bring that ‘they still got it’ kind of deal, and to let people know that we have lifelong learners here who aren’t just here reading books and coming for the fun of it,” Morris said.
When Morris spoke on just how much it means to the participants of the Life Long Learners class, it was obvious that this was the event that the Life Long Learners looked forward
“It also is a big time for the Life Long Learners. They like thinking this is the bee’s knees. They really think this is a big event,” Morris said. “They put a lot of time into practicing, they bring their families, there’s an awards ceremony, and then they have a big carry in for food afterwards.”
Regular Sinclair students are allowed to come to the event. Morris even jokes about more people coming to the Meet.
“It would be a big problem if 300 people came because we don’t have enough room for all those people, but just bring a loud cheering voice and a good attitude,” Morris said.
Zoe Hurley
Reporter