WCPSS School-to-Career Celebrates 12 Sucessful Years
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September 2006 - More than 200 business leaders, elected officials and school personnel met on Sept. 26 to celebrate 12 successful years of Wake County's unique business and education collaborative partnership known as the School-to-Career Initiative. Without the dedicated volunteerism of area businesses, this Initiative would not exist.
Attendees represented the three components of School-to-Career:
· Business Alliances
· Career Pathway Employer Teams
· Career Academies
Annually, the school system invites the School-to-Career business leaders to a breakfast to recognize their invaluable gift of time and to celebrate the many successes from the previous year. Sights are then set towards goals for the new school year.
Examples of career-oriented events for 2005-06 include:
· 450 Students at Xtreme Beginnings
· 649 Classroom speakers reached 10,315 students
· 762 Student internships
· 1,377 Job shadow opportunities
· 2,200 Students attended the Triangle Town Center Career Fair with
200 Business volunteers
· 24 ,119 Students attended school career fairs with 1,443 Business
volunteers
This year, seven business leaders were recognized for their outstanding
contributions to the School-to-Career Initiative:
· Mike Davis, Theo Davis Sons
· Wanda Denning, Grocery Boy Jr.
· Teresa Doring, NBC-17
· Joy Frankoff, Piedmont Air Conditioning
· Will Heard, Closure Medical Corporation
· Alisa Nagler, Wake Technical Community College
· Rick Peele, LS3P/Boney
The awards were presented by: Superintendent Del Burns; Bill Seyler of Bovis Lend Lease who is Chair of the School-to-Career Council; Jerry O'Connor of American Airlines who is Chair of the Business Alliance Leadership Team; Bill Sigmon of Kennedy Office Supply who is Chair of the Career Academy Advisory Board Leadership Team; and Brent Henry of the NC Cooperative Extension who is Chair of the Career Pathway Employer Teams
The event's PowerPoint presentation can be found at: http://www.wcpss.net/school_to_career/resources/presentations/index.html
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