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[Music] Welcome to Looking Ahead:

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Career Explorations.

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Danya Berry: Hello,

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my name is Danya Berry.

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I am the college liaison

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at the Dayton Early College Academy,

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or DECA, located in Dayton, Ohio.

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>>Anne Rasmussen: Hi,

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my name is Anne Rasmussen.

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I am the internship coordinator

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at the Dayton Early College Academy.

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>>Berry: DECA fulfills its mission

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to prepare urban learners to go

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to college and be the first

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in their families to graduate

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by taking away the mystique of college.

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Once our students enter college during

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their high school years

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and have success, then they build

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that confidence that lets them know

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that they can do college,

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that college is for them.

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>>Rasmussen: There are three ways

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that DECA students can connect with

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and involve themselves with adults

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in our community,

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and that's through our community service

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program, our job shadow program,

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and our internships.

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All DECA students start

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out as first-year students expected

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to involve themselves

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in some community service.

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They have to, by the time they graduate,

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accomplish over 100 hours

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of community service.

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The job shadow program

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at DECA is an essential part

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of the entire curriculum.

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All DECA students are required

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to participate in five job shadows

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over the course

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of their four-year high school

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experience at DECA.

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These job shadows are arranged

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by a coordinator who lines

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up opportunities based on the needs

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and the interests of the students.

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So for example, we have been known

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to take the students

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to a dentist's office

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and let the student be

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with a dentist side by side

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and actually get

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to be experiencing exactly what it's

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like to participate in the real medical

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and technical elements of that kind

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of a position.

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Having an opportunity to see firsthand,

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instead of just reading about

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or learning about on campus,

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what jobs are like really impacts our

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students significantly.

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To actually walk into a dentist's office

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or to walk into a scientist's lab

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or to walk over to a hospital

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and see real people doing real work is

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hugely impressive on our students.

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And then finally our internship program,

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which is required of all DECA students,

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asks them to spend up to 40 hours

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in an internship with an organization

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or a business.

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And this is a very in-depth opportunity

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for our students to work side by side

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with professionals.

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The internships that we have had

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with some of the science

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and STEM-related technology here

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in Dayton has been tremendous.

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We have done an internship

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with a science incubator called IDCAST,

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which collaborates

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with regional universities as well

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as the business world

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to develop technology and then market it

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to the business world.

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And our students have had fascinating

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internships where they spent hours

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working hand in hand

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with not only Ph.D. scientists

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who have been in the field

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for over 30 years,

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but also with students

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who are Ph.D. candidates and undergrads

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who are coming

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out of the local universities.

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I think the most important thing

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about having a job shadow

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and internship program as part

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of the DECA curriculum is

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that it really,

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really helps demystify the whole high

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school to college to job connection.

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So it's absolutely essential

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that these students have chances

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to see real people

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out in their community doing

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these things.

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>>Berry: Students get

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out of the career experiences exposure,

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experience, and education.

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We expose the students to the variety

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of field choices that they have because,

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at this point, they have been limited

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to their knowledge

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of different career choices.

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Experience-- getting those students

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out to experience jobs--

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lets them see whether

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or not they can see themselves

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in those positions.

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And then education--

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educating students

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on the different career fields,

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educating students

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on not limiting themselves

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to specific career fields.

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We honestly believe

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that if our students are given a strong

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foundation they will be successful.

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[Music] To learn more about Preparing

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for Life After High School,

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please explore the additional resources

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on the Doing What Works website.