Pursuing Their Passions: Jason Katzner

Introducing some of the members of the class of 2021, meet Jason Katzner, from Brooklyn, New York.

“I was part of a live-action role playing club back home,” says Jason Katzner. “In Central Park, we would dress up as medieval fantasy swords and sorcery characters and go on quests and fight each other.”

He’d like to start a similar club at Rochester.

Katzner is enrolled in the GRADE program, a partnership between College Admissions and the Warner School, which offers students interested in K–12 education a scholarship and a five-year path to a bachelor’s degree from the College and a master’s degree from Warner.

Katzner, who hopes to become a high school computer science teacher, grew up attending tech camps, founded a computer science club in high school, and volunteered with an international non-profit that teaches children how to design and modify board games.

He heard about Rochester from a college adviser.

“When I looked at the curriculum, I fell in love,” he says. “I’m really looking forward to meeting people from all walks of life.”

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