Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Thinking of Green Careers | The Sag Harbor Express

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By Marianna Levine

Last Wednesday morning multiform Bridgehampton School students were intensely watching a air trade around Long Island upon a computer set up by FAA representative Ryan Salaway in a schools gymnasium. Salaway, an air trade controller during La Guardia Airport, was during a propagandize as partial of Bridgehampton Schools initial ever East End Green Career Fair.

The FAA competence not be a initial classification which comes to mind when meditative of immature careers, however Salaway explained a FAAs switch to heavenly body navigation in a nearby future will revoke emissions since good be equates to to know exactly where storms have been popping up so which planes can fly around them, as well as in general it will revoke delays upon a belligerent as good as time encircling in a air thereby using less fuel.

Bridgehampton School Superintendent Dr. Diane Youngblood explained a satisfactory was unequivocally an initiative proposed by a Long Island Works Coalition, a multiplication of Goodwill which functions with a Bridgehampton School specifically upon its career academy march in environmental design.

LIWs Director of Community Relations, Lisa Strahs-Lorenc, explained a coalitions role is to prepare todays students for tomorrows workforce as well as partial of which equates to matching students with area businesses so they can get genuine universe experience as well as education, often through internships, according to Strahs-Lorenc.

Dr. Youngblood explained, were a only environmental pattern program in a area, so it seemed logical to have a immature career satisfactory in Bridgehampton, although students from Westhampton Beach as well as Southold High Schools additionally attended a event as they have been members of a Long Island Works coalition.

The FAA was one of multiform businesses, government organizations, as well as not-for-profits which set up booths in a gym explaining various career choices to a students. The Green Career Fair additionally enclosed a student-guided debate of a environmental pattern program as well as row discussions upon immature careers. The row discussion topics enclosed renewable energy, sea life, immature building, as well as organic food.

The gym however seemed to be a hub of a fairs activity. Besides a FAA, there were representatives from a Suffolk County Department of Environment as well as Energy, Nationalgrid, as well as a Long Island Science Center among many others who had set up displays as well as presentations in a gym. One of a many renouned booths was a Rock a Earth organization, a not-for-profit environmental advocacy group which functions with a music industry. Twelfth graders Josue Yanec as well as Modeso Rojas listened attentively to Rock a Earths Executive Director Shawn Kilmurray talk about a programs internship program, which pairs meddlesome college students with touring musicians such as Jack Johnson as well as Bon Jovi in sequence to pass out environmental information as well as fund raise.

Although multiform students pronounced they enjoyed a fair, many were not exactly meditative about a immature career. One Bridgehampton High School senior, Vanessa Rojano, did contend she competence go into Environmental Law, but her friends Tanasha Clark as well as Kelsey Reese were meditative of careers in nursing as well as psychology.

Tanetha Clark, Tanashas younger sister, did contend which a schools landscape class had unequivocally sparked her interest.

I unequivocally like using a T-squares, architectural rulers, as well as a blueprint up program upon a computer, she said.

Tanetha used a skills she had schooled in a class to win a Hampton Librarys Garden Design competition progressing this year. She pronounced it was possible she would go on upon in landscaping design.

Several exhibitors tried to insist to a students which many of their industries were completely new as well as which they as young people could come in during a unequivocally beginning. This was especially true for a renewable energy companies. Maria Froehlich of Eastern Energy Systems was there to insist how wind as well as solar energy functions as well as pronounced A lot of kids have been meddlesome in this since its all new, as well as they realize they wont have any disadvantages coming into a industry as newcomers.

Although Long Island Works Coalition came up with a idea for a Green Career Fair, a event was unequivocally a collaborative one. Dr. Youngblood elaborated which their Environmental Design Teacher Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, business teacher Joanne Palisi, Principal Jack Pryor, as well as Head Custodian Thomas Stevenson had contributed to a planning as well as programming of a fair. Pryor finished by stating, a interaction between a kids from all a opposite schools is great to watch today.




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