School Year Post 2019-20!

Wow... long time no see! Time flies when you are having fun! Not to mention that March 2020 we began a worldwide pandemic.  This has changed the way we do education, and life in general.  If you would like to join my Google Classroom for good resources and career information, please check out the first page of my website to get the codes.  This school year, at AFHS & AFMS, I have primarily worked with 9th and 10th grades at the high school, and next door at the middle school, I work with all grades. 

For 6th grade, I planned and implemented a Truck Career Fair and had 15 different trucks out front and back, so students could go around in small groups with teachers to hear from the drivers, about their career, company/business and were able to ask questions.  

For 7th grade, I planned our first STEAM Career Fair, we had 24 Guest Speakers and students signed up to go to two different classrooms to hear two speakers in each room. They brought hands on activities or had demonstrations for students to try out or learn from. 

For 8th grade, I taught a career lesson and helped students register for an account on CFNC.org, and explored careers, filled out a google survey to find out their top career interests.  Then planned our 2nd annual Career Fair, the pandemic hit, so we are having a virtual Career Fair, check out my website for the link on Friday, June 5th or after. 

At Apex Friendship Middle School, I also began our Speech & Debate Club with Ms. Williams, our IRT, and we had a volunteer from Toastmasters come in and work with our 15 students, even after the pandemic weekly on Google Meet! Our AFHS Speech & Debate Club students also met with us to teach about Debate skills.  

At Apex Friendship High School, I continued being Adviser for our Chick fil A Leader Academy (students can be in this for 1 school year) we partnered with our CFLA in Apex, Beaver Creek store, and selected 30 new students this school year, after they applied, interviewed and were accepted. They participated in Service projects and met monthly for team building, and inspiring videos from CFLA. We have also continued to meet virtually on Google Meet and have done virtual service projects!

For 9th grade, I taught Major Clarity, a career lesson with an assessment to learn more about their personality, learning styles and explored careers on CFNC.

For 10th grade, I planned a Reality of Money event for Civics & Economics classes, had 36 volunteers all day, with a simulation Event sponsored by State Employees Credit Union.  Students were given a real world scenario and had to walk around to each table to budget in their cost of living expenses, given the situation in life they were given on the card.  This was a real eye opener for them! 

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I also planned our first annual College Fair for AFHS, and since the pandemic hit, I had to ask all 34 college reps, military, training program reps and break out session speakers to go virtual.  I asked a team of CDC's from all over Wake County to help form a sub committee to follow up with all Reps to ask them to do a flipgrid video as if students were walking up to their table at a face to face College Fair, and many of them did! For those we did not get, we made a google slide for their school and added a slide at the end for each Break out Session we had planned.  Check it out:  https://bit.ly/2020CollegeFairvirtual

First Semester Update : )

Wow! Where did this Semester go?? Getting used to two new schools has been challenging but very exciting! I love both schools, students, staff, parents, and everything in between! 

Here are the website links for both schools:  

I am at Apex Friendship High on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday half days:
https://www.wcpss.net/apexfriendshiphs

I am at Apex Friendship Middle on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Friday half days:
https://www.wcpss.net/apexfriendshipms

So far, I have had Career Cafe's at both schools with Guest Speakers coming in to speak about their Careers while students have lunch...good feedback from students about this!
Our Guest Speakers have enjoyed doing this as well.

At the High School we began Chick Fil A Leader Academy and I am the Advisor for the group of 30 students.  Students had to apply and interview to be accepted, and we have had our first Service project... more info to follow...

New Adventure this School Year! 2018-19

Hello All! I am excited about my new adventure this year as Career Development Coordinator for both Apex Friendship High School and Apex Friendship Middle School! I served as Counselor at Carroll Magnet Middle for 5 years, the last two years as CDC, Career Counselor, and before that 3 years as a School Counselor.  I was a School Counselor for 12 years at all levels K-12, I moved around because I wanted to experience school counseling at the elementary, middle and high school levels and it was an amazing experience!

 This year I am job sharing with Lane Tomey, (who wanted to go part time) at the High School and I am the only CDC at Apex Friendship Middle School. I hope your new school year is wonderful! : ) Please email me anytime at TGuinn@wcpss.net.

2nd Annual Career Fair for 8th Grade!

Our Career Fair for 8th grade doubled in size this year, instead of 12 Guest Speakers, we had 24! Sessions were added as well, instead of two sessions ...Students could choose 3 sessions!

Here is the line up of Guest Speakers, and the document created for them to Sign Up...

https://goo.gl/bDUy3t

Here are some photos of our Guest Speakers in Session:

John & Migdalia Basilio shared about John's career as an MRI Technician for Raleigh Neurology, and they also shared about the Spanish Ministry they have together helping many families.

District Court Judge Bailey spoke about his experience with civil and criminal cases, as well as being an Attorney before that.  He also shared about his son who is a new Police Officer. 

Randy Rowell, a Computer Programmer from LexisNexis spoke about being a Computer Programmer, a popular one for sure ! 

Macy Williams, Manager with Brodie Construction, shared with our students about his career, and showed a video of a mega computerized brick layer in action!

Dr. Haugland shared with our students about being a Veterinarian, and doing Research in the field!

Sheldon Saddler, former Shaw University Football Star talked with our guys about Football Careers!

Bobby Sharpe, former Military, shared about Military Careers! 

He is also one of our CTE Teachers!

Dan Cwiakala, Youth Pastor, shared about being an Event Planner, working with Volunteers, he is also the Chair of our Business Alliance, has spoken at Career Cafe, has sponsored a Sports Mentoring group for many years at Carroll, and volunteers with our Football team! 

Kelly Darby shared about beginning her own Photography Business, and being a past Model in South Florida, and was a Defense Intelligence Agent for two years! 

Coach Elwood shared about being a Scholarship College Athlete, both Soccer and LaCrosse! She is also one of our 8th grade ELA Teachers, and former PE Teacher!

Rebekah Caroway came back, former Technology Teacher, now works for a Global Software company, many of our 8th graders had her for a Teacher in 6th grade! 

Courtney Tellefsen, owner of The Produce Box, shared about beginning a business from the ground up, being an Entrepreneur! She is also one of our 8th gr Parents, who has volunteered a lot! These students had to come up with a Business plan, the winner received a $10 bill! 

Sheree Brown shared about being a Hair Stylist at CT Weekends in Cameron Village!

Dr. David Skaar, Research Scientist at NC State, in Genetics, shared his career, and is also one of our 7th grade Parents, on our Business Alliance and has been a Guest Speaker for all of our 7th grade Science classes! 

Austin Hodge spoke to our students about Medical Careers, she is our School Nurse, and as an added Bonus, she shared about her past experience as a Military Nurse!

Mary Affee & JC came in to talk with our students about being a Therapist for children and about the business of having a Private Practice!

This is not even all of the wonderful Guest Speakers we had at our Annual Career Fair, we appreciate all of them taking time out to share their Career with our students! 

2nd Annual Truck Career Fair ~6th grade~2018!

Truck Career Fair at Carroll Magnet Middle School in Raleigh...

We Thank our Community Leaders for sharing their careers with our 6th grade students!!

Office Cordona shared about being our School Resource Officer

Google Fiber gave out freebies from their big Tricycle! 

RPD K9 Handler was a big hit!

K9 was such an exciting surprise! Teachers and Students loved this!

NC Wildlife joined us for the first time this year!

Students loved seeing this amazing boat and hearing about how they protect wildlife and most importantly...keep us safe when we are on the water in NC!

Sunset Slush franchise owner and 6th grade Parents shared not only their Career/Business, but their sweet treats as well...

Needless to say...this was a big hit!  Our hope is that this Truck Career Fair will widen the horizons for our students to consider many different careers in our community as they navigate through middle school, and create some great memories! : ) 

JA in a Day/Career Fair 7th grade

JA in a Day: Economics for Success in all 7th grade Classes...Thank You to our Volunteers who made this possible! Our students were engaged in learning about real world economics and learned about the Careers of our Guest Speakers. 

Welcome to Mrs. Huffman as Co-Advisor of FCCLA Club!

We are so happy to Welcome Mrs. Huffman to our Club, we are thankful you are our Co-Advisor!!