Ivy Tech ASAP Students Cook Meal for their Families – Together/But Apart

4 p.m., Saturday, May 2

ZOOM (see bottom of email for details)

Ivy Tech’s Associate Accelerated Program (ASAP) students will be cooking the same meal in each of their 12 homes, at the same time – together/but apart – with their instructor Associate Professor Scott O’Daniel and his family. ASAP is the accelerated program in which students are able to earn an associate degree in just 11 months at Ivy Tech Community College Evansville.

Because one of the hallmarks of the program is that students often get very close because they attend class 8 hours a day during those 11 months, and all with each other in the same classroom, they develop a bond, a very close-knit relationship with each other. Most times they consider each other “family.” While this Stay at Home order has been tough on all students, it has been especially challenging for the ASAP students who had grown so attached to each other and were really missing their lack of interactivity.

Professor O’Daniel devised this as a way to bring back some of that feeling, and you are invited to join the Zoom “cooking.”   While the actual cooking part will begin at 4 p.m., we have the Zoom meeting opened up at 3 p.m. in case you would want to interview O’Daniel beforehand about why he is doing it, and what ASAP is about. (More info about this accelerated program can be found at ivytech.edu/asap