SAVE THE DATE:The next conference is scheduled for February 16 – 17, 2017 at Queen’s College in Guyana.
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Beginning in October 2014, we’ve hosted a conference each academic year with students at Queen’s College. The annual conferences have had a combined participation of over 400 students from Queen’s College and invited schools from the area. Some of the invited schools in the past included North Georgetown Secondary, Annandale Secondary, Richard Ishmael Secondary, Christ Church Secondary and Bishops’ High School.
The conferences feature seminars and workshops that are facilitated by Queen’s College alumni and friends. Seminars and workshops offered in the past include
- Steps to Respect: Strategies to Stop Bullying
- Youth Volunteerism
- Coming to America – To Study: Higher Education
- The Mindset of an EntrepreneurThe Mindset of an Entrepreneur
- Information is Power: Make Your Own
- Goal-Setting and Time Management n the Digital Age
- The Audacity to Pursue Your Passion: Lessons From a Recovering Chemical Engineer
- Step by Step to a Career in Petroleum and Geology
- From Product Conception to Marketing: Hands-on Business Development
- Developing Critical Thinking It’s Time to Activate Your Dreams
- Education and Development: The Power to Change the World
- Engineer? Yes, You Too Can be an Entrepreneur
- Let’s Talk about Study Skills
- Creating & Nurturing Mathematicians and Mathematical Scientist
- It’s Time to Activate Your Dreams
- Law and Legal Advocacy
- You Are The Perfect Product
- A Career in Oil and Gas
- Music and Brain Development
- Get Into Rugby
- Cricket Lovely Cricket
- Leadership and Initiative
- Creative Problem Solving
Among the intended short-term outcomes for students are an increase in subject-area knowledge as well as improved access to alumni resources for mentoring possibilities. We hope that through exposure to supplemental information and soft-skills training, students will be better prepared for post-secondary life. Some of the seminars feature group activities to help with teambuilding.
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