Hilton Head Island Students Help Out at the RBC Heritage
By Tyler Manion
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, Sc. (WTOC) – As tens of thousands of people flock to Harbour Town Golf Links this week, the service industry of Hilton Head Island is put to the test. There are more than 1,500 volunteers out here this week helping take care of all the fans, but there are also 43 students from the University of South Carolina Beaufort. USCB has a hospitality specific program with around 100 students that take classes out here on Hilton Head, and this week they have the opportunity to work this massive event. It’s a big deal for these students, but also the program which places just about all of their graduates immediately into service industry jobs.
The student leading the rest of her peers out here says this is an opportunity unlike any other. “It is exactly why I came to this program to be completely honest with you. a lot of people will say you don’t need a degree in hospitality to work in the industry, but to get the opportunities we have to work out here, to meet the people that we’re meeting, to be present and to have our faces and our program out there… you can’t beat that anywhere else in the nation,” said Rebecca Pollard, head intern at USCB Hospitality Program.
Some of them are not only holding the concessions down here in between holes one and nine, but they are also working up at the seventh hole as well.
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