<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/2024/givens_fourth_grade_visit_2024.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>04/09/2024 10:15:01 AM</pubDate><title>Givens Elementary Fourth Graders Spend a Day at Webster</title><description>On April 3, fourth graders from Givens Elementary School in Webster Groves spent their “first day of college” at Webster University. Thirty-seven students and their teachers conversed with avatars and created dragons in the School of Education, took a ballet class in the Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts, conducted experiments in the College of Science and Health and ate lunch with their other “fellow” college students in Marletto’s cafeteria.</description><author/><image><img src="/images/givens_fourth_graders_2024_wide.jpg" alt="Professor Mary Lai Preuss helps fourth graders extract DNA from a strawberry."/></image><tags><tag>college of science and health</tag><tag>home page</tag><tag>leigh gerdine college of fine arts</tag><tag>school of education</tag></tags></item>