Saturday, November 21, 2009

Career Expo

On Friday,November 20 at 5-7 pm we held our first Career Expo on the fourth floor of AACA. It was a successful event! We knew there were many events happening on the day such as the movie New Moon and another event in Boston Latin School, The Hypnotist Show and was not sure of the outcome of attendance to our event. To our surprise we had a total of 38 students from around the Boston area attended this evening event. Students from Revere, Malden, East Boston, and Boston came looking for volunteer and internship opporutnities! The feedback we received from the students were this is the first time they heard of such an event.


Before the event we spent over two months planning the event and reaching out to organizations and businesses. We contacted over 50 organizations and was able to secure six organizations. The organizations were Boston Cares, Best Buddies, The84.org, Zumix, Samaritans, and Urbano, and obviously AACA. This has been a great learning experience because the whole event was organized by the youth council members. Here are a few pictures taken as the youths set up for the event. More pictures will come. Look for upcoming activities, events, and programs brought to you by the youth council members. Happy Thanksgiving!



















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