Young Women's Career and Mentor Kit Program

"I think it is critical for our young women to have role models of professionals of all types. I believe that Barbara provides real-life people around this area that the young women can easily relate to."

Mentor: Carol Sanchez, CPA, Sanchez and Santiago

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Connecting Rivers to the Sea: Introducing 21st Century STEM Environmental Careers

Exciting New Program Available to Partners
Young women will learn about a host of vital environmental careers that are financially rewarding and personally satisfying. Some of these careers require an associate’s degrees and specialized training and other careers require a bachelor’s, Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree.
This multidisciplinary, hands-on program will include history, art, and music along with brain-based methods that help make learning more exciting and memorable for every style learner.
In hands-on activities in the classroom, lab, and in the field, girls will learn that clean water is crucial to good health, how to sample water, what water quality tests mean, the important role that rivers and their watersheds play in their communities and on the health of Boston Harbor. The program will start with a two-week summer day camp, spent mostly outdoors, and then will have follow up activities and community events during the school year.

Career Exploration Programming
to Suit All Your Needs

You can order a program "off-the-shelf" or "mix-and-match" 5 different complementary, high-quality, original career exploration programs and choose from 20 careers paths in 7 fields.

The workshop participants and staff are woman-only to ensure that participants are comfortable. The staff consists of teacher(s) and assistants such as high school and college students, and volunteers from the community or school.

Series of Workshops

The building block for workshops is a 50-minute program on one career. We provide a minimum of 6 workshops in a series. To ensure their enthusiasm and keep their energy levels up, we get participants up and moving. Programs feature several kinds of activities: reading, writing, communications; hands-on, and math and science puzzles and games.

In multiple session programs, the last workshop in a series is a special activity in which participants develop a personal project. A school could increase parental and community involvement by offering a formal showing of the projects in a public location.

Participants receive folders to keep the hand-outs from each session. At the end of a series of workshops, participants have collected information they can share with their friends and families and use to make future career decisions.

Nontraditional Career Exploratory Courses

Vocational-Technical Schools can introduce 8th and 9th grade young women to four different nontraditional careers: engineer, computer programmer, carpenter, and motorcycle mechanic. In each 50-minute workshop, students learn that the field is accessible to women and that the career path is personally rewarding and offers them opportunities for financial security. The school usually offers these four classes in rotation pattern to ensure that all the young women take them.

Vacation and Summer Vacation Camps

Vacation and summer vacation camps are 3.5-hour or 6-hour, 1- and 2-week camps, with hands-on activities. Participants learn about three careers through hands-on activities.

Mini-Camps

Fast-paced mini-camps introduce three careers in 3 to 4 hours. Women from the community come in to talk about their careers and we work with them to run activities with our ready-to-use curriculum and our staff sets up the room and assist the presenters.

NOTE: To give the participants our full attention, a maximum of 15 young women may attend a CAMKit workshop. A maximum of 15 young women may attend each of the three segments of a one- and two-week summer camp with a total of 45 young women in the whole program.

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"I think it is critical for our young women to have role models of professionals of all types. I believe that Barbara provides real-life people around this area that the young women can easily relate to." Mentor: Carol Sanchez, CPA, Sanchez and Santiago