Today I participated in a career panel at Greece Arcadia High School. This was very exciting to me because for the first time, a college/career center that I had visited, that otherwise we had no prior relationship with, contacted me to do an event! Up until now, pretty much all of the events I've done came about because we had done them before, or had a prior connection to the organizers, or I had requested to be included. So I was very excited and honored to have been reached out to out of the blue.
The audience consisted of about 200 10th grade students, to which I showed the "What is Imaging Science?" video and then described in a little more detail the career opportunities available in Imaging Science. I also described my own story and the internship program. I don't know that we've gotten many (any?) intern applicants from any of the Greece schools before, so hopefully we'll get some next year.
The other professionals in the panel represented financial advising, physical therapy, Wegmans HR, and nursing.
At the end of the presentations, a student who recognized me came up to say hi. Turned it out was my cousin's husband's nephew whom I had met last summer at a family party! I also learned that the daughter of the teaching assistant who invited me to participate actually went to the same high school as I did, and graduated the year after me. Small world.
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