2006 Impacts
Description:
An all-day event for middle/high school students held at WSU Vancouver; co-sponsored with ESD112 Youth Workforce Programs and WSU Vancouver Student Services. Community and campus volunteers taught classes in Career Exploration, Summer Employment and College Preparation.
2006 May PACE Group
Impacts:
- One hundred eight (108) teens attended.
- Of these, 80 completed conference evaluations.
- Teen participant profile:
- 40% male
- 60% female
- 69% White
- 6% Black
- 5% Ukrainian
- 4% Mexican
- 3% Native American
- 1% Asian
- 12% Other
- Age range from 12 years to 20 years of age
- Average 16.24 years of age.
- Twenty-three (23) middle/high schools were represented
- Counties of residence were Clark, Cowlitz, Thurston.
- Twenty-four volunteer instructors and presenters provided approximately 70 hours of small group/large group instruction.
| Participants ranked the following on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being "strongly agree": | ||
| This conference helped me feel more confident about being successful in the world of work: | 4.23 | |
| This conference increased my awareness of job/career options: | 4.44 | |
| This conference helped better prepare me to make job/career decisions: | 4.23 | |
| I plan to use ideas, materials and/or skills from today's conference: | 4.28 | |
| I would recommend this conference to a friend: | 4.34 | |
Selected written comments:
- "I was gonna take welding but now I'm gonna take Mechanical Enginering."
- "I liked College 101 best, it definitely helped me be more aware of what to expect."
- "I think we should get sessions like this, about college, into our schools."
- "I felt that I learned more about what college would be like."
- "Thank you for providing this opportunity for me. Please provide this again next year."
- "THANK YOU"
