the parantheticals are referencing teacher names to tell which room to go to for that presentation โ left in a couple so you could appreciate the very appropriate location for the Law Enforcement presentation
these options leave a lot to be desired and make me wonder how the fuck they recruit for them, because it doesn't seem like there's much effort to get a wide breadth of interests and options.
Non-meme answer: states in the middle of the country where there's not much to differentiate them to the point where people don't bother touching down. If you were going from Seattle to Miami, you'd probably want to get off the plane and get on a connection flight in Las Vegas. Or take a route that sends you through LA. But you would want to fly right over Utah, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Hence the term "flyover state."
The most exciting thing in Salt Lake City is probably the replica built in 1994 of the McDonald's Trump visited earlier this week.