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Adopt-a-School Project Spawns ‘Record Label,’ College Dreams

SUNY Oswego senior music major Greg Horning, right rear, monitors a midi recording station at Oswego Middle School as he, 13-year-old eighth-grader Michael Woolworth (in headphones) and Oswego Middle School music teacher Paula McKenney-Myers, left, listen to Jacob Johnson, foreground, setting the tempo for an upcoming recording of a song Johnson and Woolworth composed. The college's recording lab supervisor, Dan Wood, and McKenney-Myers have teamed in an Adopt-a-School project that partners college and middle school students in various ways.SUNY Oswego audio production students, the recording lab supervisor and faculty members have helped rock Oswego Middle School since last fall, working with a music teacher and eighth-graders to roll out 13 bands and an in-school recording company, Buc Records — all the while showing the students the benefits of college and careers.

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