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On Thursday, March 26th 2026, multiple college representatives came to the CHS gym to put up booths and promote their schools to Agoura, Oak Park, and Calabasas students. Universities from all across the nation had stands in the gym, including spokesmen from Vanderbilt and Stanford.
At the start, everyone gathered in the gym to tour around different college advertisements and find what’s right for them. Over 40 colleges and universities came to this event. While the majority of the stalls were for institutes, a few were selling summer programs and outside courses. With the developed Performing Arts Program at Calabasas, there was a noticeable population of artistic and musical-focused schools advertising at the College and Career Knowledge Night.
After the first part of the night, participants moved to the PAEC to listen to speeches by the organizer and our superintendent, and later moved around to explore different rooms, each catered to their specific interests.
The two college and career counselors, Nancy Yumkas and Robin Lutsky, at Calabasas, started by introducing themselves and thanking everyone. Following them, Principal Bennett Wutkee, Alan Lazar, and Superintendent Stepenosky took the mics to advise all the students wondering about college.
Mel Johnson from Los Angeles College of Music says they are a “Contemporary program, so people that play instruments, write their songs, record, produce, want to get into music business and production.”
Many of the colleges that attended the night had this trait in common: they are open to a variety of students in their division. Going around the gym, each booth had a diverse variety of students standing in line, and merchandise for anyone who came up to the stands. Pens, fliers, clips, and more were given out.
Besides educational stalls, the US Military also had multiple booths set up in the corner of the gym. Representatives in full uniform were answering questions about the future in place for high school students venturing into the army right after graduation.
The final part of the night had individuals going to different rooms of the school with professionals in their respective fields, based on the students’ interests. One room had a Community College Specialist for those wondering about the College Essay process, and another had an ASU Professor lecturing about fashion in art.
The whole night was aimed at getting students excited and deciding about college.
Calabasas senior Jenna Juridah started the night super interested in the University of Connecticut for Pre-med, as she had been accepted there, she saw the rest of the booths, and she wanted to explore her other acceptances.
Juridah said, “[I] felt more of a drive to go to those schools. So, some of them accepted me, for instance, the University of the Pacific accepted me. I looked at them, and I talked to them, and they were really interesting.”
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