Sign up now for GirlTECH Nov. 11

 October 22, 2009

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Women are expected to make up more than half of the total labor force in 2012, and organizers of an upcoming NMC campus event want to educate girls on how they can make strides in non-traditional careers.

GirlTECH, now in its eighth year, is slated for 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at NMC’s Great Lakes Campus. Interested tenth grade students are encouraged to register now through Nov. 4 by contacting their high school counselors.

GirlTECH was developed to encourage high school girls enrolled in any Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District school to consider non-traditional careers, or those careers in which women comprise 25 percent or less of the workforce.

Organizers expect 200 students to attend this year’s GirlTECH, which will feature five breakout sessions and keynote speaker Maxine Lauer, founder of Sphere Trending, a consulting firm that studies consumer preferences and trends.

Students will listen to several speakers discuss their career paths and have the chance to meet local women working in non-traditional fields. Current non-traditional students from NMC and the TBA Career-Tech Center will present students with information about local training programs for high school junior and seniors and NMC programs.

Speakers include:

  • Stephanie Kehrer - Funeral Director
  • Sharon Hults - Pilot/NMC Flight Instructor
  •  Liz Ascion – Engineering
  • Maxine Lauer - Entrepreneur, Business Management/ Marketing
  • Olga Topash – Paramedic
  • Kris Mikowski - Michigan State Police K-9 Officer
  • Sharon Whitcher - Heavy Equipment Mechanic
  • Constanza Hazelwood - Instructor/Coordinator, NMC Water Studies Institute
  • Great Lakes Maritime Academy cadets

For more information, contact Elizabeth Stevens at (231) 995-2400. Event sponsors include NMC, Traverse Bay Area Career-Tech Center, Benzie Area Zonta Club and the Zonta Club of Leelanau County.

 

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