Host a Virtual Career Exploration Workshop for Fresh Air Children: Weeknights

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Share about your career journey with Fresh Air Children by hosting a virtual Career Exploration workshop!

Virtual career exploration workshops are 50-minute interactive sessions that give our middle school students a chance to connect their interests to a future career. Volunteers will mentor a small group of students through a short career readiness lesson and project. During the virtual workshop, volunteers will:

• Share about their own career journey with our students
  • Volunteers will give pointed advice to students including the education requirements, skills, internships, and experience needed for someone looking to get into your industry.
• Engage in a skill sharing activity with the students
  • Volunteers will work with the students on a problem solving activity that will allow them to apply the critical thinking and other skills that you employ in your profession.
• Lead interactive games
  • Volunteers will use fun games, trivia and questions to keep the workshop interactive and exciting!

Volunteers commit to one 50-minute virtual workshops that will be scheduled at your convenience and conducted between December - January. All career industries are welcome.

The Fund staff will help volunteers plan and prepare for this workshop. Workshops are scheduled at your convenience on weeknights Monday - Thursday from 5:30-6:30 pm.

The Fresh Air Fund's Career Awareness Program is designed to help New York City students understand the relationship between school and work and how to make positive choices that will determine their futures. Participants make a three-year commitment to the program. The year-round program includes weekend camping trips and an intensive three-and-a-half-week summer session at the Career Awareness Camp - Camp Mariah. Students also participate in job shadows that offer closer-up views of various career fields, tutoring, book clubs a career fair.