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Student Ambassadors provide information to prospective students.
Ambassador’s Top 10 Must Know Things
1. Must be friendly. 2. Must be outgoing. 3. Learn to be flexible. 4. Tour will occur no matter what the weather is outside. 5. Must learn to make conversation with complete strangers 6. Must have the skills to talk with anyone and everyone 7. Be a team player. 8. Maintain a positive attitude 9. Stay out of trouble (outside of school and in) 10. Must be a good folk.
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M AY R A R A M I R E Z
The ambassador clocked in and thumbed through a notebook to find the name of who a complete stranger. That person would become the ambassador’s main focus as they planned out the campus route according to the prospective student’s interests. The campus visitor arrived and the tour began. An ambassador was a person who acted as a representative or promoter of a specified activity. The Hutchinson Community College ambassadors have an important job on campus. They are often the ones that are involved with helping many students make one of their biggest decisions when
Apryl Manzi, Wichita, and Bryce Young, Hutchinson, give tours to some of the 200 students on Blue Dragon Senior Day. Both talked about the newlyremodeled Science Hall and what it offered.
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choosing what college to attend. Their primary duty was giving campus tours to prospective students. They were also involved in recruitment activities, as well as working inside the admissions office helping with sending out materials. “We do not try to convince people, we give people the proper tools so they can make the best decision possible,” Efrain Lopez, Macksville, said. The HCC ambassador program came about 20 years ago. Every year, a team of 20 to 25 make up the team. To become an ambassador, the student must apply for the scholarship, and let the admissions staff know that they are interested. If the student was chosen, the process began with another application and interview. “I think that it allows the student the opportunity to know too, that we think highly of them, that we are putting them out as the face of the college,” Corbin Strobel, admissions director, said.
Dragon’s Tale
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