Police Inspire Promise Scholars

Hawthorne students in Auto learning the basics of electricity. Photos by Giselle Martinez.

Promise Scholars is an Ontario-Montclair school district program meant to help students continue with their education once they graduate high school. The program was first introduced in October 2011 and has grown to over 20,000 K-12 students. For students that are interested in attending a community college, the Promise Scholar program gives them the first two years of tuition free of charge.

On Friday, October 5, Chaffey College was visited by Promise Scholars students from Hawthorne Elementary. Arriving before 10 am, the fifth grade students first went to four activities designated for them. One of them was with the campus police. Campus police taught the students how to find and collect evidence as well measure the distance between what was found and the crime scene.

They also visited the legal department where they learned how to debate. The auto department also participated by teaching the students the basics of how electricity works using light bulbs. Once the activities finished, the students took a tour around the whole campus. They were then led to the MACC quad for a lunch before going back to their buses and leaving.