The parking lot is very much in play, as are the scoreboards atop the outfield bleachers. Will anybody leave the yard on Monday? Yes. And the sore and sorely missed Fernando Tatis Jr. Giancarlo Stanton sent it flying as a Marlin back in ‘15. Mark McGwire hit a parking-lot bomb in ‘99. Mike Piazza, the only Dodger to do it, cleared the left-field grandstand in ‘97. Willie Stargell did it twice, in 1965 and ‘73. Now, only six homers have ever completely left Dodger Stadium. The only park with fewer is Globe Life Field in Texas, which has existed only since 2020.Ĭombine that massive dinger dearth with the fact that this is the first Derby at Dodger Stadium, and you've got yourself a rare opportunity to see MLB's most powerful gents blast baseballs deep into the L.A. In the Statcast tracking era (since 2015), Dodger Stadium has the second-fewest home runs 440 feet or farther (35) in baseball. Part of that is because Dodger Stadium is not a yard that sees a great deal of lengthy long balls. Some will end up attending Baylor, and whether or not they are enticed by our beautiful campus, they all leave enriched by programs designed with care by Baylor faculty, prepared for further excellence in their own elementary or high schools.Jordan Shusterman and Jake Mintz take a tour of Dodger Stadium and discuss the best places to catch a home run during the Home Run Derby. The relative quiet of campus in the summer opens doors for young people to visit through experiences like UYP, athletic camps and more. The higher-level courses are for gifted and talented students from the communities surrounding Baylor, and students choose three courses per day, cycling through a wide array of experiences. Other options sound downright fun: classes on slam poetry, photography, writing a children’s book, graphic design, media analysis… the list goes on. In grades 4-12, students participated in classes that sound like a college catalog: engineering design, writing for the screen, introduction to the brain, complex numbers, and more. In the second session, grade schoolers discovered a “mess” on a space station and worked to help families and children living there. The archaeology session created a scenario in which students uncovered a long-forgotten people and shared what they learned. In either case, the experience was designed to help students use a variety of tools to learn to solve problems in a fun way. This year, they could participate in either archaeology or space travel experiences (or both). The youngest of the young people in UYP are in grades 1-3. This year’s University for Young People (UYP) recently concluded, welcoming students from first through 12th grade to campus to learn from faculty and staff from Baylor, Waco ISD and more, with a pretty impressive curriculum packaged in the form of a mystery-solving journey. It’s University for Young People, a program put on by Baylor’s School of Education for nearly four decades. What Baylor program transports Central Texas youth to archaeological digs or space stations, and encourages them to develop skills in fields as wide-ranging as screenwriting to linear algebra?

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