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Looking for a program to participate in this year? Career Connection would be a great choice!
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The FCCLA Career Connection program guides youth to link their options and skills for success in families, careers, and communities. Through individual, cooperative, and competitive activities, members discover their strengths, target career goals, and initiate a plan for achieving the lifestyle they desire. Career Connection guides students to develop, plan, carry out, and evaluate projects. The projects improve the quality of life in six units focused on different aspects of career development. • PLUG IN to Careers — Understand work and the Career Connection Program • SIGN ON to the Career Connection — Link personal interests, skills, and goals to career clusters • PROGRAM Career Steps — Prepare with education, leadership, and work experience • LINK UP to Jobs — Learn to find and land a job
• ACCESS SKILLS for Career Success — Practice being productive on the job and promotable • INTEGRATE Work and Life — Manage interconnected roles in families, careers, and communities. FCCLA offers national recognition to chapters that complete Career Connection projects. • High School Award — $1,000 • Middle School Award — $1,000 • Runner-Up Award — $500 Applications must be submitted online to FCCLA national headquarters by March 1. The online award system will automatically close March 1, 5:00 p.m. EST.
Check out what the 2016 Career Connection Award Winners did in their community! High School Winner
Middle School Winner
Runner-Up Winner
Kittatas Jr./Sr. High School, Washington
Montgomery County Middle FCCLA, Missouri
Spring Lake Park High, Minnesota
“Empowering Connections for Future Careers”
“The Future is Yours...What Will You Be?”
Members organized a career fair for 6th-12th grade students to show the many career options available to graduates. Middle school FACS students and chapter members completed a career interest inventory and a career investigation based on their results.
Members researched careers and higher learning institutions for this project, then answered many questionnaires in order to learn more about themselves and which career clusters that they would be interested in based on their goals, interests, and skills.
“Getting in Gear for Family Careers” Members developed a college/career fair, with all careers relating to Family and Consumer Sciences. The event provided an opportunity for students to speak one-on-one and connect with actual professionals to learn more about careers and the opportunities they offer.
November/December 2016 www.fcclainc.org Teen Times 21