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Join us for a session on creating career pipelines for underrepresented students. Learn through jumpstart activities, panel discussions, and reflection on your own career journey to tackle challenges and improve college and career exposure for students. Explore pathways in building design & construction, academic and career development events, and initiatives from the high school side. Gain valuable insights and strategies to empower students in their career exploration.
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Creating CareerPipelines forUnderrepresentedStudents Presenters: Erik Miller, Wentworth Institute of Technology Erica DeBiase, Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants Diane Scott, Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School
Agenda for Our Session • Quick intros of presenters and topic • Jumpstart activities • Reflect and pair share on your owncareer journey • Challenges in your work to improve college & career exposure/connection for students • Panel • Q&A/discussion
Reflecting on Your Own Career Journey • Are you in the career you thought youwould be in when you were a teenager? • What experiences helped you thinkabout what careers you might want? • Who were the key people/mentorsin your early career pathway?
Reflecting on Your Own Career Journey (continued) • If you could go back and change something inyour career journey, what would it be and why? • How do you talk about exploring careers andpost-secondary educational pathways with theyoung people with whom you work?
Pathways in Building Design & Construction • ACE (Architecture, Construction, Engineering)Mentor Program of Greater Boston • Part of national initiative • Partnership of Wentworth Institute of Technology, Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, Boston Society of Architects, SMMA (SymmesMainiMcKee & Associates) architectural firm
Pathways in Building Design & Construction (continued) • FREE, weekly after-school program – interactive activities on-site with mentors • Design a space or building in your community (e.g., emergency shelter in the Seaport)
Academic & Career Development Events& Programs (MSCPA) • Priority of the MSCPA to diversify the field • ‘Is Accounting for Me?’ (one-day intro events) • CAMP and ACAP (week-long summer programs) • FREE student membershipin the MA Society of CPAs • Scholarships for college, including partneringwith firm for shadow, internships
Some Thoughts from the High School Side • Naviance modules: Do What You Are (9th),Career Interest Profiler (10th) • Early College (dual enrollment) courses(11th spring & 12th fall and spring) • New initiative: Lunch Roundtables (e.g., BlackLaw Student Association, Suffolk University)
Some Thoughts from the High School Side (continued) • Partnerships, partnerships, partnerships!!! • Required summer experiences – 75 hours; college, career, community service – contextualized in personal growth and development & social justice
Thank You for Coming!Hope it Was Helpful! Erik Miller: millere1@wit.edu Erica DeBiase: edebiase@mscpaonline.org Diane Scott: dscott@pacrim.org