Our Keystone and STEAM Leadership members from the Boys & Girls Club at Railroad hosted a college and career night, “Dinner with a Young Professional.” This informative and impactful evening focused on college and career development for our club youth through a speed networking event with young professionals who have recently graduated from their university and are now working their first job in their field of study.
Our local young professionals were students not so long ago from both Santa Maria High School and Pioneer Valley High School with university representation from Cal Poly, San Diego State, UC Riverside, and UCLA. Our club member youth along with other invited high school students participated in a speed networking style event where they rotated and visited with each of our professionals to ask about tips for landing their first job, navigating college resources, and what to expect for life after graduation.
Our young professionals all work here locally and come from various disciplines and organizations including, County of Santa Barbara, Social Services and Public Works, Lumina Alliance, Cal Poly Upward Bound Program, and UCSB EAOP Program. They concluded the event with a team STEAM Challenge titled, “Peep on the Tallest Perch”, where club members along with their mentor had to build a paper tower that could balance a marshmallow peep at the top of the tower. It was a great evening of mentorship where club members could meet young professionals they could relate to and see first hand what it takes to get to that next phase of their careers.
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