{"id":9495,"date":"2023-10-23T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2023-10-23T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:13:14","slug":"star-grabeel-makes-appearance-at-tamuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/star-grabeel-makes-appearance-at-tamuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Grabeel makes appearance at TAMUK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Students and faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville lined up in front of the Jones Auditorium to listen to celebrity speaker and \u201cHigh School Musical\u201d star Lucas Grabeel. Before the seminar, select students were given the opportunity to have a one-on-one meet and greet with Grabeel and had the chance to take photos with him. Grabeel inspired the audience with his motivational words of encouragement about his struggles of revamping his acting career after the downfall of COVID-19 and all the challenges he faced during this time. \u201cYou know I think a lot of people are going through rough times right now, and I\u2019ve been going through some rough times lately. I want to share that no matter where you are in your career or journey that you\u2019re always going to have obstacles and problems are always going to come,\u201d Grabeel said. \u201cI hope that hearing me talk about the different highs and lows I\u2019ve gone through in my career will help them live life and find pain in the pleasure.\u201d This event brought excitement to the campus and students felt that the university did an outstanding job on selecting Grabeel as their guest star this year. \u201cI was super excited. I think all these events TAMUK has had are such a cool opportunity to not only be with your friends but getting to meet special guests like Lucas,\u201d student Jacqueline McClendon said. \u201cI know we all grew up with this movie so it\u2019s great that we get to see one of the characters and see what he has to say.\u201d Grabeel gave the audience a sneak peek at his short film he recently filmed and poured his heart out to the crowd as he explained his love for acting and inspiring others around him. \u201cI love sharing what I\u2019ve learned with other people, and it may sound silly but when you do the same thing over and over you tend to forget about your journey and how you got there so inspiring others gives me the inspiration to do what I love,\u201d Grabeel said. Student engagement and faculty had hopes that students would take advice and educational information from the seminar moving forward. \u201cOne thing that Lucas was super proud about is his art so I\u2019m hoping that students can connect to some of the other pieces of work he\u2019s done besides \u2018High School Musical\u2019 and maybe inspire a couple of students to pick up acting or film,\u201d Student Engagement coordinator Kelsey Dahlbeck said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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