CJSF Central Region Spring Conference

California Junior Scholarship Federation

Founded in 1967, CJSF fosters high standards of scholarship, service and citizenship in the Junior High School grades.

The 2010 Central Region Spring Conference was held at Fresno Pacific University on Saturday March 27. The title of the conference was "A Day at the Fair" and included fair themed sessions and events at lunch.

A few of the sessions for the day included: "No Clowns Allowed! Make-up techniques and tips", "FPU Campus Tour", "Your Ticket to the Big Time: College Planning", "It's Magic!"

It was a great mixture of different activities. Lunch was in FPU cafeteria and then after lunch they had cotton candy, popcorn, and snowcones outside on the lawn. While they were serving the treats outside the students had the chance to play a few rounds of a cake walk game. My students walked away with almost all of the prizes from the cake walk. So we had treats to eat in the vans on the way back home after the last event was over.

The closing ceremony included a game of Brain Brawl between two High School CSF teams. My students loved watching that and commented about how they hope to do this when they are in high school. Then the CJSF Huhn nominees were announced. After all 15 nominees were introduced and a short bio read on each one then the five winners were announced. This was followed by the CSF Seymour Award winner being announced. It was then time to say our goodbyes and head home for the day. All the students agreed it was a fun day and the 7th grade students asked if we would be returning again next year. I said we would have to wait and see when the conference is held and were it is held next year but if possible then yes we would return again in the future.

Cake Walk Take