We also opened up the fair to our VM students as well to be
able to explore potential career options. Both Youth and VM
were able to create connections and be informed about what
life is like for each career. We thought it would be important
to allow our VM students to be able to talk with people in
the work force to establish a relationship and have an idea of
what they are pursuing into the future. For the Youth students,
we wanted to offer a chance to talk with people that didn’t
need to go to college but were able to pursue their dreams. Or
if they weren’t too encouraged by the majors, they had the
chance to speak with someone who was working a job that
they could see themselves in. Talking with the career presenters
allowed every student to be provided a list of objectives,
kind of like a road map, to get to where they wanted.
Fair we decided that we would use maybe a quarter to a half
of the vision center- thinking that it’d be small. This event
would be something small, but we can eventually build off of
for future years to come. However, we were not expecting
this event to be as big as it was. Every week more and more
people wanted to sign up and help. The response to really
pour into the upcoming generation and be able to help them
in this way was something that all the youth leaders were
grateful to see. By the end of the night we had over 200 people
attend the event. There were 15 majors that were represented
with 2-5 students at each booths presenting their major and
30 individual career presenters that came through. In total
having 75 individual students and working people that came
to make this event happen
Being able to provide this event to our students was something
that several leaders wanted to create. When talking with the
youth, the topic of college and future plans are conversations
that gets mentioned about at least once in every encounter.
We were able to receive help from several people from both
VM and EM adults. There were 19 majors present, both undergraduate
and graduate, with several students that volunteered
in each booth. Some of the majors that were presented
ranged from the classic STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering,
Math) majors to Marine Biology, Textile Management, Psychology,
and many more. Most of our VM college students
helped by setting up booths and spending time introducing
their respective majors. The students would meet outside of
school and poured countless hours into each presentation.
For the career side, there were several EM adults that were
able to offer up their time despite their busy schedules and
pulled resourced from their work to create visual content for
the viewers to enjoy. In total there were 18 booths for careers
with presentations from IT, Law Enforcement, Mechanics,
Dentistry, Education and the list goes on and on. And the
night would not have been an FKBC event if it wasn’t for the
food that was catered by the Youth PTA. This event would
not have been possible if we did not get such a positive wave
of support and manpower to hold this for our youth students.
Despite a lot of students with uncertainty of majors and still
being able to thrive, there are still others that thrives without
college as well. All the leaders believe that college is an opportunity
if it is seen and taken as an opportunity and not
everyone has to go to college.
Being able to create a space for both, student and parent, to
see the opportunities that are beyond high school was something
everyone was able to enjoy. It truly was a blessing that
we hope to see more of in the future.
When we first started planning for the College and Career
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