Helping Students Envision Themselves As Extraordinary

Members of Onondaga Community College's Extraordinary Men of Distinction (EMOD) want students in the Syracuse City School District to see themselves as college students one day. That's why EMOD recently welcomed students in the Building Men program at Meachem Elementary School to campus for a few hours of fun and conversation.

Building Men is led by Cameron Littlejohn, a 1st grade teacher at Meachem who is also a 2015 alumnus of OCC. EMOD student members who led this effort were George Grigorian, Emanuel Flowers, and Muhammed Abedrabbah.

The long-standing collaboration between EMOD and Building Men serves as a pipeline to higher education for young students.