For third-grade teacher Nichole Sigg, an experience teaching at a summer camp after her freshman year of college persuaded her to change her major to education.
“I never thought about being a teacher,” she said. An avid athlete, Sigg had her sights on exercise science, picturing her love of Crossfit, running and other sports as a natural transition to becoming a personal trainer.
But an experience teaching Bible lessons at a summer Christian camp opened Sigg’s eyes to a new world and when the fall semester began at Pittsburg State University, she changed her major to elementary education.