FBLA Club served together on Saturday!

Had a great time serving with the Triangle East chapter of FBLA together, our newest member Imani from Centennial Campus middle (& my church!) her Mother, my dear friend Velma L Tailly came! We helped Brown Bag ministries Bag up lunches & took them to an apartment complex with many refugees (even saw another student from Carroll who lives there!) & gave out warm coats, socks & toys! My first time to be an advisor for a Club at school & it's off to a fun beginning...

http://www.NCFBLA.org

Amazing field trip today with Ms. Bibb's Robotics Electives!

Our new Business Alliance member Rod Vance, VP at Intuitive Surgical on NCSU's Centennial Campus, hosted us today! Students were amazed to be able to try out the robots used by surgeons all over the world! We are very grateful they shared their time and talents with us. One of their mechanical Engineers, Ryan, in the second photo... went to Centennial Campus Middle!
Click here for Intuitive Surgical's website!

Thank You to Ms.Tellefsen, Owner of The Produce Box...for speaking at our Career Cafe at Carroll LT Magnet Middle!

Building Business Alliances at Both Schools!

Much progress with building our Business Alliance at both schools with talented stakeholders in our community! Very grateful for the opportunity to get to know professionals who want to give back by getting involved and volunteering! Had our first BA meeting today at Centennial Campus and had 8 businesses from our NC State Centennial Campus, the Synergy in the room was amazing...all were on board with supporting our school in many ways...as Guest Speakers and possibly as tutor/mentors! We have an Hour of Code coming up and lining up volunteers for that as well. Following our meeting some stayed for a tour of our school.

Tomorrow is our second Business Alliance meeting at Carroll Leadership in Technology Magnet Middle School and we have some new members joining us and we are very grateful to have them. We are planning our College and Career Fair for Friday, March 10th and have many volunteers lined up!


Yesterday after school at Centennial we had an Interest meeting for any student who wanted to learn more about FBLA, Future Business Leaders of America and because we had three students stay who are very interested, we are reopening a Chapter at our school.  This will be my first time to be an Advisor to a Club and I am getting lots of input on how to navigate this new endeavor. There will be a competition in Greensboro we plan to go to in the Spring...not sure if we will be watching or participating, but from the excitement of our bright eyed students, I have a feeling we will be competing!

Great Xplorations Career Fair

This week's exciting news was the Great Expectations Career Fair at the McKimmon Center at NC State! Saw a lot of my 8th graders from last year who were participating. There were 4 main rooms for students to rotate to and have hands on learning. In one room, Guess My Gigg...students asked questions until they figured out what Career they had! Nate Adams was a Guest Speaker, owns a unique food truck, Chirba Chirba Dumpling in American, but raised in Taiwan, so he speaks fluent Chinese! The students never guessed his Gigg, but had fun trying! Nate gave me his info & may come and speak to our Chinese classes at Carroll.  The next Guest Speaker was Donald McCoy, STEM Consultant, who said he would be happy to speak to our students as well! In another room, hundreds of students rotated into small groups of 3 students with a Volunteer from the business community who conducted mock interviews and gave them tips on how to interview better! Then they had a panel of experts, and one was Ken Smith, News Anchor from WRAL who answered many good questions and have tons of expert advice.  In another room, Representatives from each Branch of Military Service helped students with Team Building activities using yarn, played telephone to show good listening skills are important... I was also able to do some Networking myself for both of my schools for potential speakers for our Career Fairs, in classes, etc.

Thank You to Kim Yarborough, Small Business Owner

Our newest Business Alliance member at both of the school's I serve as Career Development Coordinator, Kim Yarborough, owner of  Civility Nation, www.CivilityNation.com
Ms. Yarborough, (known as Ms. Kim to our students) came to both of my schools this week, Centennial Campus Magnet Middle, and taught our 8th grade Career Decisions class more about It's My Future (Junior Achievement curriculum, first in a 6 week series) At Carroll LT Magnet Middle, Ms. Kim taught students more about Etiquette & Manners to 3 grade levels of students at our first Career Cafe! We practiced proper handshakes, how to introduce someone, and had fun doing it! We appreciate her time and expertise! Here are a few photos from our Career Cafe...

Updates for Centennial Campus and Carroll Magnet Middle Schools!

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At Centennial Campus Magnet Middle School we have a fantastic volunteer, Kim Yarborough,  coming in from Junior Achievement to teach "It's My Future", to our 8th gr Career Decisions elective, weekly for 6 weeks!  JA Programs for Middle School aligned with our Curriculum Ms. Yarborough also has a new small business teaching Business Etiquette and her website is http://www.civilitynation.com/  She has offered to serve on the Business Alliance at both schools that I serve! She will also be inspiring students who sign up for a Career Cafe at both schools.  Our first Business Alliance Meeting at Centennial will be on Wednesday, November 2nd. Please encourage business owners/contacts in the NC State area to attend and support our school...many ways to volunteer, as a Career Cafe speaker, mentoring students, Career Fair speaker, etc.

At Carroll Magnet Middle School we held our first Business Alliance meeting yesterday morning and Thank You to all who were able to attend! As a result, we have the following on the calendar, and are looking forward to these events.  Ms. Yarborough will speaking at our first Career Cafe next Thursday in our Learning Commons. We have Business Alliance volunteers set up to come in for Career Cafes each month through January and will set up the slots available for the rest of the year at our next BA meeting on Thursday, November 17th from 7:30-8:30 am, in our Learning Commons.
Our Career Fair is set for Friday, March 10th, and if you are interested in speaking to our students about your Career, please fill out the following form:

Career Plans for each Semester

Besides growing and strengthening a Business Alliance at each of the Middle Schools that I serve, (and if you know of strong businesses in our community that may want to support our school, with time or resources or BOTH... please refer them to me and I will follow up with our Brochure and invitation to tour and talk about how we can make this happen!)  I will be going into classrooms to help students sign up for an account with CFNC.org... first they need a school email account, and be able to access it with their password.  Then we will spend time doing a Career Assessment, to narrow down their top 3 Career Interests.

Next semester we plan to have a Career Fair, so that our students can visit and listen to a volunteer (from their top 3 career interests) who will speak about their career, how they got there, maybe what they were like in middle school, how they had to begin taking Reading, Writing, and Math seriously, why they chose their career, some of the pros and cons of that career, etc.  Then Q & A to wrap up.
As a follow up, they will fill out a short Survey to assess the Career Fair and what they gained from it.  Teachers may ask them to write a reflection of their experience in class, or possibly present a project about their top career choice or top 3 choices.

http://www.CFNC.org

Also Click on my website above, go to Student & Parent Resources and Explore some more!

If you have any questions, please let me know at TGuinn@wcpss.net :)

More information about our Superintendent's Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast...

Dr. Tabb serves on the Health Science Career Academy Advisory Board at Athens Dr High School, which is a Business Alliance.  Here is the information on the guest speaker, Mr. Abernathy on Economic Leadership...he shared a lot about trends that will effect what careers/jobs will be available when our middle school students will be in the job market...




Mr. Jones is a Volunteer who helps Mary Phillips High and Sanderson High School, so many of the Carroll students going to Sanderson may benefit from his leadership there. Let's nominate our wonderful Volunteers from Centennial Campus Middle and Carroll Magnet Middle Schools for next year's event to honor them!

      Today we honored Volunteers at the Annual Superintendent's Breakfast for School-to-Career initiatives in Wake County Public Schools. Many volunteers came out and our table was full.  Synergy between all at the table was great as we brainstormed questions about how the 4 C's, Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity can be applied to skills that are vital for our students/future employees to have in order to help businesses be successful. 
        Here is a link to a You Tube Channel of Sean Brown, Senior at Middle Creek High, who spoke to us about the Digital Media Career Academy, and shared about his Internship at UNC-TV, where he was able to create his own commercial that will be on the air soon!  https://www.youtube.com/user/frickyfreshboy 

Here are some photos taken of parts of the presentation "A Peek Around the Corner-Trends Today that are Certain to Change All our Futures."

Updates from your Career Development Coordinator :)

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As the new CDC, Career Development Coordinator at both Centennial Campus and Carroll Magnet Middle, I will be attending the following event...anyone who has volunteered for the school is welcome to attend. Please pass this information to them and ask them to contact me if they would like to join us at this exciting annual event to honor our Volunteers!  TGuinn@wcpss.net

WCPSS and the School-To-Career Council  would like to invite you to the Superintendent’s Breakfast-School-To-Career Volunteer Celebration on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at the PNC Arena from 7:30 am – 10:00 am.  Please find the registration link below.  Breakfast will be from 7:30 am – 8:00 am and the program will begin at 8:00 am.  We will be recognizing some of our most outstanding School-To-Career Business Volunteers at the Breakfast who have worked hard to engage our students and assist them in finding future career paths.  WCPSS will give an update on Vision 2020 and participants will have an opportunity to provide input for enhancing Vision 2020.  This Breakfast provides Dr. Merrill, WCPSS Superintendent, the opportunity to thank our Business Volunteers for their significant contributions to WCPSS through School-To-Career.  This year in addition to Dr. Merrill’s comments, we will hear from Mr. Ted Abernathy, Managing Partner with Economic Leadership, LLC.  Mr. Abernathy is a nationally known economic futurist and recognized leader and expert in economic and workforce development trends.  He will provide some interesting and thought provoking comments around the need for business and industry to remain as partners with education as we move further into the 21^st century.  We look forward to this incredible opportunity to celebrate the great work our Business Volunteers are doing and also collaborate and strengthen this work moving forward.