High school and jr. high kids’ career day

Greetings, everyone. Thank you for reading this really long blog post. Cathy and I need help getting a good idea off the ground. We think it’s worthwhile. —– JULIA

Cathy and I would like to develop a monthly career day type of program for ages 12 and up. The program would have a speaker talk to the kids about the post-high school education necessary for the career and what great things and challenges jobs in that field might entail. We’ve talked about having speakers for: dental hygienist, medical doctor, nurse, graphic designer, comic strip artist/cartoonist, information systems technician, architect, and veterinarian. We are very flexible about which careers are booked. This programming will be free, but we cannot manage it ourselves. I’d like you to consider volunteering for us for either an entire school year’s worth of career days (9 events total) or shorter commitments (even one-time commitments!) if we can get enough hostesses. To make career day work, the following jobs must be done:

1, Create an event once a month. This can be done by one of the Three Sisters, or by you (you get to choose the career!). Creating the event means you contact a speaker, and set up a location and time for the event (usually the speaker’s workplace or a library meeting room). Give this information to Julia to put in the monthly newsletter.
2. Take RSVP’s, send confirmations and a specific address (for security, we do not typically reveal exact addresses until a family commits to attending the event), create attendance list for event. This can be done with a Three Sisters email address or your personal email address.
3. Hostess the event – greet speaker and inform him/her about expected number in audience, take attendance, greet attendees.
4. Thank everyone for coming and introduce the speaker if mutually desired.
5. Thank everyone for attending.

Cathy and I cannot take on jobs 3 – 5 and are very willing to give jobs 1 and 2 to someone if mutually practical. Three Sisters will give the following support: HLR signs for use with street directions, promotion through a monthly newsletter, promotion through a blog, and use of Three Sisters email address (to avoid your personal information being distributed).