Oklahoma CareerTech Tech Prep

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Scouting CareerTech Scouting CareerTech Webinar
October 1, 2007
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Before we start

• www.okcareertech.org/techprep
• resources, presentations
• Scouting CareerTech Handbook
• Presentation
• Podcast

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Purpose

• To expose Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to the
  opportunities of high-skill, high-wage and
  high-demand career majors available to them
  through career and technology education to
  provide the opportunity for Scouts to visit a
  Technology Center campus to assist Scouts in
  earning Merit Badges and completing Interest
  Projects in an academic setting using resources
  otherwise not available to them and to foster
  and promote positive relationships between the
  Technology Center and the surrounding communities.

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Scouting CareerTech

• Modeled after Merit Badge University
• Opportunity for Scouts
• earn Merit Badges and Interest Projects
• Opportunity for Technology Center
• positive interaction with future students
• promote opportunities of CareerTech career
  majors
• recruit students to your Technology Center

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Technology Center Benefits

• Recruitment
• Public Relations
• Marketing
• Much More

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Recruitment

• Next Level Marketing
• Alignment to career clusters
• career pathways, career majors
• Interest in particular academic disciplines
• Pre-Engineering, Bio-Medical Sciences and graphic
  arts!
• Career majors important to local economic
  development.
• Scholarship opportunities

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Public Relations

• Local support
• millage elections, business and industry
• Network of Scout programs
• Northern Oklahoma College, OK Meridian Community
  College, MS Tennessee Technological College, TN
  University of Texas, TX Auburn, AL

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Marketing

• Press releases
• pre-event, post event
• Electronic communication
• email, web site, online registration
• Peer to Peer
• t-shirts, word of mouth

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How Does It Work

• Select a committee and date
• chairman, committee members
• Register Scouting CareerTech Instructors
• course instructors
• Promote with local Councils and Districts
• council web sites, leader meetings, unit leaders

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How Does It Work

• Hold Event
• opening ceremony, classes, closing ceremony
• Follow Up (recruit)
• personalized letters to Scouts, press releases
• Further opportunities to contact students!

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What awards?

• Merit Badges
• Architecture
• Art
• Auto Mechanics
• Cinematography
• Communications
• Computers
• Cooking
• Engineering
• Graphic Arts

• Interest Projects
• Architecture and Environmental Design
• Artistic Crafts
• Car Sense
• Child Care
• Computers in Everyday Life
• Desktop Publishing
• From A to V Audiovisual Production

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Resources

• Boy Scouts of America
• Boy Scout Merit Badge Pamphlets
• Boy Scout Requirements Book (No. 33215D)
• Girl Scouts of America
• Interest Projects for Girls 11-17 (No. 20521)

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Scouting CareerTech Committee

• Kelly Arrington
• Coordinator, Guidance ODCTE
• 405.743.5195 karri_at_okcareertech.org
• Denise Christy
• Resource Coordinator ODCTE
• 405.743.6882 dchri_at_okcareertech.org
• Janet Cooper
• Applications Coordinator ODCTE
• 405.743.5130 jcoop_at_okcareertech.org
• Kathryn Davis-Robb
• Program Executive
• Girl Scouts of Magic Empire Council

• Jack Dillwith
• Advancement Chair
• Pawnee Bill District, Cimarron Council
• Ann Houston
• Community Relations Specialist ODCTE
• 405.743. 5112 ahous_at_okcareertech.org
• Camilla Riley
• Chief Officer Guidance Academic Services
  Metro Tech
• 405.424.8324 camilla.riley_at_metrotech.org
• Jeremy L. Zweiacker
• Tech Prep Alliance State Coordinator ODCTE
• 405.743.6881 jzwei_at_okcareertech.org