The recently established ECO Sports Corridor, located in Springfield, Ohio, offers paddling, biking, climbing and hiking. I believe this is an important story/place to cover since the Corridor is new and was established by Dr. John Ritter, Wittenberg Professor and Department Chair of geomorphology and environmental geology. Moreover, Witt students can utilize these numerous outdoor activities easily accessible to them – all in one place! It offers an alternative (and perhaps de-stressing) weekday and/or weekend activity for students and faculty alike.
Further down in my article I will include the location of the ECO Sports Corridor and its trails/water locations. I have looked at the ECO Corridor webpage as well as its Facebook page to get the basic information I need. I plan to include the Facebook link so that students can like it as to follow what’s going on at the Corridor and so the page-manager (if it is Dr. Ritter) can further promote it. Also, many students I have talked to have not heard of the ECO Corridor so this story will be a good promotional article in that respect.
I have emailed Dr. Ritter so that I can do either an in-person or email interview to get some more information. It is important that I ask questions specifically targeted for the student audience. For example, some of the biggest questions I automatically thought of (and I’m sure other students will) are the costs of all these activities. Is there a training course that costs money? How much does it cost to go on a trail, rent a kayak, launch a canoe, etc.? Will there be a Wittenberg student discount? The audience wants to know about money/cost; especially poor college students!
In addition, I plan to find/interview a student who has done an ECO Corridor activity. Luckily for me, classmate Jess Batanian interned with Dr. Ritter at the ECO Sports Corridor this past summer and I look forward to discussing all of this further with her.
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