BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20170126T213000Z DTEND:20170127T013000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:2017 NHS CAREER EXPLORATION NIGHT DESCRIPTION:Local Business Leaders Needed for the\n \n\nNorcross High School\n\nCareer Exploration Night\n \n\n\n\nCareer Exploration Night is our chance as a business community to help local high school students prepare for a future in our local and global community. Many of our students are unfamiliar with all of the career path opportunities that are open to them...if they are prepared to enter them. Many don't have access to career professionals to ask questions that may guide their education and skill development choices.\n\n\n\nSponsor a Booth and participate in the Career Panels to Showcase Your Company/Profession at Career Exploration Night A Great Opportunity to interact with local High School Students and Parents\n\n\n\nThe Norcross HS Career Exploration Night is our chance to provide students with a glimpse into the different career opportunities and what education and skills are required to enter those careers. Think about your own career path. Did you have a clue to what career alternatives might be available to you? What education you might need? What skills you could develop to be successful? \n\n\n\nBy volunteering to sponsor a Career Booth and/or participate in one of the following panel discussions\, you can be that source of information for a new generation. Share your experience about the joys and challenges you've had in your chosen field with this new generation. Their Future (and ours) depends on it! Volunteer now and these FOUR hours of your life will make an impact that will extend into your future. \n\nSign up now\n\n\n\n\n\nCareer Panel Descriptions\n\n\n\nBUSINESS MANAGEMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP\n\nStarting Your Own Business: What's It Like Being an Entrepreneur?\n\nMeet small business owners\, nonprofit directors and people who have turned ideas into real companies. Learn what running your own business is really like!\n\n \n\nINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY\n\nComputers\, Software and Digital Design: Can You Make a Living in Cyber Space?\n\nAs an IT specialist\, you might work with computer hardware\, software\, multimedia\, or network systems\, design new computer equipment or work on a new computer game. Find out if the IT field is right for you.\n\n \n\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENT\n\nArt\, Cameras\, ACTION!: Are the Worlds of Design\, Video and Film Really that Glamorous?\n\nFind out what goes on behind the scenes as professionals in the film industry and fields of photography\, graphics design and theater share insights about what their jobs are really like.\n\n \n\nHEALTH SCIENCES\n\nSports Therapy\, Biomedical Engineering\, Nuclear Medicine: Health Sciences isn't just about Doctors!\n\nThe branches of health science are virtually endless\, spanning the rewarding traditional jobs like being a doctor\, nurse or pharmacist\, to surprising new job opportunities in therapy\, research and biotechnology. If you like science and the idea of helping people\, this may be the field for you.\n\n \n\nSCIENCE\n\nFrom Microscopes to Mountain Tops: What in the World can you do with a Science Degree?\n\nNot all scientists wear white lab coats and work with 3-eyed monkeys there are countless ways to help the world through a career in science! From forensic research that solves crimes\, to finding new energy sources or hiking rain forests in search of exotic plants to cure cancer .there is something out there for anyone intrigued by solving problems\, helping others and/or exposing mysteries.\n\n \n\nMARKETING & SALES\n\nMarketing & Sales: What are Amazon and the Gwinnett Braves Both Looking for?\n\nSome of the highest growth tech companies\, like Amazon and Face book\, have a great need for marketing managers. There are also jobs in web development\, advertising and promoting sports teams find out the skills you need to promote yourself in the field of marketing and sales.\n\n \n\nLAW & PUBLIC SAFETY\n\nYou Have the Right to Remain Silent (but Law & Public Safety are Careers Worth Talking About!)\n\nIs being a lawyer\, a police officer or a fire chief as exciting in real life as it is on TV? Ask these panelists what it's like to work every day at keeping our communities safe\, and what you can do to become part of the team.\n\n \n\nARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING\n\nDesigning\, Building\, and Engineering Your Future: Can You Construct a Career?\n\nIf you like math\, solving problems and building stuff\, then engineering may be the field for you. This field offers exciting opportunities for both men and women\, with career paths that include architecture\, aeronautics\, homebuilding\, protecting the environment and much more.\n\n \n\nSKILLED TRADES CAREERS\n\nCakes\, Cranes\, and Automobiles: Do You Like Working with Your Hands?\n\nThere are lots of really great jobs that you can get trained for without going to a 4-year college. Jobs like being an electrician\, mechanic\, culinary chef\, or heavy machine operator. For example\, crane operators get paid to move heavy objects at construction sites\, a job that requires great focus and skill. Find out what skilled trades might work for you!\n\n \n\nSign up now to be a Panelist\n\nand/or Sponsor a Booth\n\n\n\nYour four hours will make a difference!\n\n \n\nQuestions about becoming a panelist?\n\nContact Terri Hoye at thoye@nfumc.org X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Career Exploration Night is our chance as a business community to help local high school students prepare for a future in our local and global community. Many of our students are unfamiliar with all of the career path opportunities that are open to them...if they are prepared to enter them. Many \;don'\;t have access to career professionals to ask questions that may guide their \;education and skill development choices.
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\nSponsor a Booth and participate in the Career \;Panels \;to Showcase Your Company/Profession at Career Exploration Night &mdash\; A Great Opportunity to interact with local High School Students and Parents
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\nThe Norcross HS Career Exploration Night is our chance to \;provide students with a glimpse into the different career opportunities and what education and skills are required to enter those careers. Think about your own career path. Did you have a clue to what career alternatives might be available to you? What education you might need? What skills you could develop to be successful? \;
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\nBy volunteering to sponsor a Career Booth and/or participate in one of the following panel discussions\, you can be that source of information for a new generation. Share your experience about the joys and challenges you'\;ve had in your chosen field with this new generation. Their Future (and ours) depends on it! Volunteer now and these FOUR hours of your life will make an impact that will extend into your future. \;
\nCareer \;Panel Descriptions