Greetings!
Thank you for partnering with us to connect students to business and their future. The students are eager to hear from our Career Coaches, even during summer break, and are seeing images of "possible selves" that provide relevance for their classwork. If you haven't already, sign up now to talk with students and share which work-based learning opportunities you can provide! The F4K Team -Susan, John, Rebecca & Ann |
| CAREER COACHES MAKING A DIFFERENCE | |
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Paying it forward...
This summer, students talking with F4K Career Coaches have learned:
- Thinking like a computer programmer is a lot like solving a math problem (so take all the math classes you can!)
- You must have a high school diploma to go to cosmetology school
- If you want to be like Abby on NCIS, criminalistics is your forensic science field of choice
- Every Marine must be qualified to shoot a target the size of a melon over a distance of 5 football fields
Connect with students who share your passion and can benefit from your experience. We especially need Artists, Federal Agents, Military, Pediatricians, Psychiatrists, and Professional Athletes. Where else can you make such a lasting impact in as little as 15 minutes a week? Spread the word and sign up today!
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| THANK YOU EMC! | |
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Special thanks to
EMC for their
$5,000 donation to Futures for Kids!
Eileen Twomey, EMC Senior Human Resources Manager and Susan Sanford, F4K Executive Director
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| NC CHAMBER 2011 EDUCATION SUMMIT | |
The NC Chamber's 3rd Annual 2011 Education Summit focused on the opportunities and responsibilities of business in educating our future workforce. Keynote speaker Dr. Ronald Ferguson stated:
"Beginning in middle to late elementary school, we need to begin giving young people exposure to the world of work and images of possible selves--those images can be the motivation for doing the work and staying engaged."
Dr. Ferguson is part of the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Pathways to Prosperity Project, which examines the reasons for our failure to prepare so many young adults and calls for a national overhaul in the way we prepare young people for employability.
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