Learn about the incredible career of NASA astronaut R. Shane Kimbrough. A West Point graduate, he served as an Army aviator and joined NASA in 2004.
Learn about careers in the aviation industry, how you can get involved and the skills the aviation industry is looking for in future engineers, pilots, and technicians.
Astronaut Danny Olivas talks about his journey from his hometown of El Paso, Texas to the final frontier of space.
1. Students will identify different manufacturing vocations.2. Each student will research one vocation.3. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the vocation by preparing a presentation board and speechfrom the information they research and dressing up like the employee to share their information withthe class.4. Students will collect data on each vocation as the other students share their information.5. Students will compare the various skills to find the common themes.
Students will discuss their future career preferences. They will practice how to be persuasive with their speech to achieve something or to be convincing. Students will decide appropriate ways to talk about themselves and their talents in a formal setting.
Adam Randall and his team at both Henley Middle School and Henley High School launched with great success, the piloting of the YouScience platform https://www.youscience.com/ . This platform is a specialized assessment process that engages students in brain games for nearly an hour total and provides detailed results of the students natural abilities, innate skills and examples of how the student might most successfully utilize their aptitudes and interests in preparation for career selection. During the 2020-2021 school year, Henley was 1 of 7 schools in Southern Oregon to start the 18 month pilot. Join us to hear Adam share 3 important aspects of the YouScience implementation process: What to do prior to delivering the brain games How to best deliver the brain games How to best engage with your students with the results of their brain games
Students will be engaged in cross curricular activities that focus on industry wide skills, foundational skills and essential skills for today's workforce (based off of the 13 effective practices for implementing PA CEW standards).