Thanks to volunteer Jim Conti and the enthusiasm of our Future Readiness Coordinators, Rayshonda Mitchell and Benson Casirmir at Brien McMahon and Norwalk High Schools respectively, 10 Carver high school students recently traveled to Jersey City, New Jersey to visit St. Peter's University.

Mr. Conti was a first-generation college student who graduated from St. Peter’s in 1993 with a BS in Computer Science. Jim went on to work at Goldman Sachs within the Prime Brokerage Hedge Fund Demand Team.

The Carver group of staff and students received the red-carpet treatment from the staff and student ambassadors!

Saint Peter's University is a private Jesuit university. The university offers over 60 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 2,600 undergraduate and 800 graduate students. Its teams play in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, of which it is a founding member.

The university is located on a 30-acre campus, a hidden gem in the northeast located only 12 minutes from New York City by train. The Peacocks athletic programs are proud participants in NCAA Division1 - MAC Conference sports.

In 2022 the men’s basketball team gained national recognition, becoming the tenth No. 15 seed in history to upset a No. 2 seed after knocking off the Kentucky Wildcats. Beating Murray State in the next round, they became the third No. 15 seed in tournament history (and the third in the last nine years) to make the Sweet 16. To conclude their historic run, they upset Purdue to become the first No. 15 seed in tournament history to advance to the Elite Eight.

The campus represents a diverse and multi-cultural population of mostly commuter students. St Peter's is recognized as a top affordable choice school in New Jersey, by the U.S. Department of Education and provides 98% of its full-time undergraduates with scholarships. 

Our students visited the STEM Engagement Center and participated in an activity that included teamwork, creative thinking, and civil engineering tasks.

Other campus highlights included a visit to the dormitories, learning about the honors program, and hearing about the over 60 majors offered on the campus like nursing and cyber security.  

The students ate lunch and had a special visit with St Peter’s mascot Pete the Peacock!