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CAMKit™ Programs are effective, successful young women’s career exploration programs, custom-designed for your organization.
Students explore careers through the real-life stories of resilient women from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds successfully working in their chosen fields.
Young women learn about potential career paths by engaging in creative, hands-on activities.
Here's why young women like CAMKit workshops.
"We did interactive and fun activities."
"The lesson was an introduction to physical therapy and skeletons."
"I connected to the workshop, and they made it very fun and interesting."
"We got to dress up like skeletons."
"They got you up and moving. It was very interesting."
"We got to do a lot of hands-on work, and the teachers were very nice. Overall, I learned a ton."
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Exploring Careers through Mentoring
Did you know that for single working women and their families...
- The difference between poverty and financial viability for women is often the mother's education and/or training.
- Women earn on average 77% of what men earn. The financial situation may continue to worsen for families led by single mothers. Thirteen percent of single-parent families live below the poverty limit.
- Many women work in careers not considered “traditional” for women, but that are lucrative and personally satisfying.
- Young women often need mentoring to explore the full range of career paths.
Our high-quality career exploration programs can provide the missing link to lucrative and personally satisfying careers.
Introducing the Career and Mentor Kit (CAMKit) Programs, a unique resource for young women to explore careers.
CAMKit Programs are effective and affordable career exploration workshops that are easy to implement. CAMKit's talented, experienced instructors come to our client's location, bringing all workshop supplies. In these custom-designed workshops, we encourage young women to explore a variety of traditional and nontraditional careers, which the client picks from our list of career possibilities. Rather than emphasize one career or another, CAMKit programs engage young women in thought-provoking activities to help them explore careers that they might like to learn more about.
Through innovative and engaging methods and materials, CAMKit teachers encourage young women to discover their skills and interests. Within the context of this supportive team environment, the students gain insight into how to map their skills and values with various careers. Women from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds serve as mentors.
Career and Mentor Kit Programs are available in several formats and combinations of formats.
50-minute workshops on one or two careers are the building blocks of the before- and after-school CAMKit programs. CAMKit offers half-day and full-day vacation and summer camps, career days, and 9th grade nontraditionl career exploratory programs. CAMKit programs can accommodate most schedules.
We customize our programs to suit our clients, who can combine workshops, camps, and career days over a few weeks, a semester, or an entire year. We meet your scheduling requirements, if at all possible. For example, we can plan workshops for multiple days of the same week or for consecutive weeks.
Students love our summer camps where they "try on" a variety of careers while working on individual and team projects.
Our full-day, two-week summer camp is an exceptional career exploration model. In a career and technical high school's shops, students rising 7th and 8th grades "try on" three careers during carefully monitored activities. Parents and friends celebrate the students' achievements at end-of-camp festivities. This program may serve as a pipeline of female students for the career-tech school.
The registration page on the CAMKit website provides additional information for signing up for a program. You may also call (617) 484-6961 for further information.
CAMKit Programs fulfill every school's needs for quality career education
- Be an innovator – Provide the missing link to financially rewarding and personally satisfying careers for your female students with exciting programs that benefit their futures and complement your curriculum.
- Students blossom – Your middle and high school women can mature as they explore new careers and gain confidence with creative, hands-on activities.
- Easy, affordable implementation – After-school programs require no internal staff or fancy equipment. Seasoned instructors come to your school, bringing all materials with them. The result is simple program administration with great results.
- Flexible schedules – We offer afterschool programs, vacation and summer camps, mini-camps, and 9th grade nontraditional career exploratory programs to accommodate most schedules. Our activities encourage young women to consider careers that they may not know about.
- Supplemental introductory and wrap-up sessions – encourage creativity and expand young women's exploration of personal interests, skills, and careers.
Talented CAMKit professionals come to your school and provide a wide range of valuable services
- Develop interdisciplinary, engaging curriculum
- Teach workshops using innovative methods
- Assist in grantwriting to fund CAMKit programs
- Build long-lasting relationships
- Evaluate and re-assess CAMKit programs
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