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2. Introductions Co-Chairs  Linda Karman; Director of Guidance  Frank Hufnagel; School to Career Coordinator District Office  Patricia Sullivan-Kriss; Superintendent of Schools  Ken Graham; Asst. Superintendent of Admin. & Technology  Cynthia Haigh; Asst. Superintendent of Personnel & Professional Development  Austin Gavin; Assistant Superintendent of Operations  Eileen Hodrinsky; Assistant to the Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction  Kathy Lombardo; Director of Pupil Personnel Services

3. Introductions HS Personnel  Christine O’Connor; High School Principal  Tim Piciullo; HS Assistant Principal & Business Chairperson  Greg Foster; 9 th Grade Transitional Guidance Counselor  Kathryn Ehrhardt; Business Teacher Middle School Personnel  Maryann Fletcher; Middle School Principal  Dan Wald; MS Assistant Principal Elementary School Personnel  Michele Rothfeld; Pines Elementary Principal  Christopher Michael; Forest Brook Elementary Principal  Matthew Giordano; Bretton Woods Elementary Principal

4. Introductions Long Island Works Coalition  Lisa Strahs-Lorenc

5. Goals of the Program Provide work experience opportunities through part-time employment, internships, job shadowing, and volunteer work. Offer K-12 students information regarding careers through fairs and guest speakers. Align course curriculum with industry standards. Develop a business work ethic within the school environment.

6. Benefits to Business: Communicate skills required for entry level employees in the workplace Communicate job opportunities/needs in the industry Create links with the district to offer internship opportunities Announce part-time employment opportunities

7. Benefits to Business: Spark an interest with future employees through shadowing opportunities and classroom presentations Strengthen your organization through networking Gain exposure and goodwill within the community

8. How the School will Benefit: Provide students with career exploration opportunities; such as classroom presentations, shadow days, career fairs, and internships Offer part-time employment to match students’ career choices Update curriculum with current industry standards

9. How the School will Benefit: Support our Educators to become familiar with today’s world of work in which we must prepare our students Foster a business work ethic within the school environment Offer community service opportunities to our student body

10. Largest Benefactors: Business + School + Community Students

11. Did You Know...

12. Sometimes size does matter.

13. If you’re one in a million in China...

14. There are 1,300 people just like you.

15. In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.

16. The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s...

17. Is greater than the total population of North America.

18. In India, it’s the top 28%.

19. Translation for teachers: They have more honors kids than we have kids.

20. Did you know...

21. China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.

22. If you took every single job in the U.S. today and shipped it to China...

23. China would still have a labor surplus.

24. During the course of this 8 minute presentation...

25. 60 babies will be born in the U.S. 244 babies will be born in China. 351 babies will be born in India.

26. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs...

27. By the age of 38.

28. According to the U.S. Department of Labor...

29. 1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company they have been employed by for less than one year.

30. More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for less than five years.

31. According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley...

32. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

33. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist...

34. Using technologies that haven’t been invented...

35. In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

36. Name this country...

37. Richest in the World Largest Military Center of world business and finance Strongest education system World center of innovation and invention Currency the world standard of value Highest standard of living

38. England.

39. In 1900.

40. Did you know...

41. The U.S. is 20 th in the world in broadband Internet penetration. (Luxembourg just passed us.)

42. In 2002 alone Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development.

43. The U.S. Federal Government spent less than half as much on Research and Innovation in Education.

44. 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.

45. There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace. (August 2006)

46. The average MySpace page is visited 30 times a day.

47. Did you know...

48. We are living in exponential times.

49. There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.

50. To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)

51. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

52. There are about 540,000 words in the English language...

53. About 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

54. More than 3,000 new books are published...

55. Daily.

56. It’s estimated that a week’s worth of New York Times...

57. Contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18 th century.

58. It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 10 18 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

59. That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

60. The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

61. That means for a student starting a four-year technical or college degree...

62. Half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

63. It’s predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010.

64. Third generation fiber optics has recently been separately tested by NEC and Alcatel...

65. That pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.

66. That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.

67. It’s currently tripling about every 6 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years.

68. The fiber is already there, they’re just improving the switches on the ends. Which means the marginal cost of these improvements is effectively $0.

69. Predictions are that e-paper will be cheaper than real paper.

70. 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.

71. The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 million laptops a year to children in underdeveloped countries.

72. Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the Human Brain...

73. By 2023, a $1,000 computer will exceed the capabilities of the Human Brain...

74. First grader Abby will be just 23 years old and beginning her (first) career...

75. And while technical predictions farther out than about 15 years are hard to do...

76. Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.

77. What does it all mean?

78. Shift Happens.

79. Now that you know...

80. what do we do about it...

81. Break-out Groups Determining our resources  Please fill out the questionnaire  Group discussion Points:  What do you wish to get out of your experience with us?  How can you get involved with the HSCAB?

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