Rachel Daw Participated in Ideafest at Dordt College

2012 May 1

Dordt College hosted a celebration of students' finest academic accomplishments at Ideafest. Rachel Daw of Farmington, Iowa, co-presented with Eric Davelaar "Colostrum Management in Newborn Dairy Calves" during the annual event on April 26. Daw is a senior majoring in agriculture with an emphasis in animal science.

More than 70 presentations were given throughout the college's Campus Center during the two and a half hour event where audience members were free to travel from one presentation to another.

"I'm really glad we have Ideafest. It's the closest thing we have to a public sporting competition for academics," said Mark Volkers, professor of digital media production at Dordt College. Several of his students presented documentary films they created for their upper level Documentary Filmmaking class. "In an academic community like Dordt College, where students and faculty are constantly wrestling with ideas and dreaming up dreams both big and small, it's so important to have a venue where those ideas can be shared."

A Dordt College education is about learning and growing within a Christian community. And for English professor Dr. Mary Dengler "events like Ideafest are the reason for a college education: discovering, developing, and discussing ideas as agents of growth and change in God's world. Students come prepared to celebrate their scholarship in various forms of media with peers and faculty."

Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, is a comprehensive Christian college rooted in the Reformed tradition. U.S. News & World Report, Forbes.com, Washington Monthly, and Princeton Review all list Dordt on their best colleges lists. Dordt is home to approximately 1,400 students. To learn more about Dordt College, visit www.dordt.edu.