North High School students at the University of Minnesota

Some students of North High School got the chance to go to the University of Minnesota for a CIS Composition on September 16, 2011. CIS composition is a course taken by students at North High School that can enable them to earn credit at the University of Minnesota while in high school, and it’s required that students who take this course go to the U for a join assembly- where students from different schools meet there to discuss a specific topic. Among the North High students who attended, Kevin Xiong was one of them. Kevin Xiong, who has been attending North High School since his freshman and in the school district since fourth grade, tells me that the field trip to the University of Minnesota was quiet educational. They were lectured about “Ethnography”- the process of observing, studying, and understanding other cultures. The lecture lasted for 90 minutes. Not only did they have to listen to the lecture, according to Kevin Xiong, they have to study different culture, and write a paper to their teachers who are teaching the course. When the lecture was over, he says that “they were given access to tour the campus."
Kevin Xiong history begins from Laos. His parents immigrated from Laos to the United States. When they came to the United States, they moved to California. Then move to the Minnesota. Kevin Xiong is very happy this year; he is the homecoming king this year for North High School. Xiong had no idea if he were to be king; he just heard the news from other students that he had been selected as homecoming king.
For his research, he hasn’t yet decided what he will do.