Career Exploration Information

Healthcare Career Expo                              

Southern New Hampshire Health System

When:              Thursday, November 1, 2007

Time:                5:30 – 7:30pm

Where:             10 Prospect St.

                        Conference Rooms A/B/C/D

                        Nashua, NH

Speak with different healthcare professionals:  nurses, radiology technicians, laboratory medical technicians, rehabilitation therapists, EMTs.

Interactive displays include:  suturing, ultrasound, mixing IV’s, ambulance tours and more.

Light refreshments will be served.

BAE Systems Career Day

BAE Systems in Nashua

When:              Friday, November 9, 2007

Time:                School Field trip

Where:             BAE Systems

Spitbrook Rd. 

Nashua

BAE Systems provides tours of their facility, overview of their work & products, lunch with recent college graduate engineers, introduction to Women in Technology, Explorer’s Post, Summer Internships, FIRST and a panel discussion with members of the BAE team.

Please see Maggie Paul to sign up for this field trip.  Only 6 students per trip.

Girl Leadership Conference

Sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Swift Water Council

When:              Saturday, November 10, 2007

Time:                9:00 – 200pm

Where:             Legislative Office

                        Concord, NH

                        $10.00 conference fee    Register by October 31st

This conference is an opportunity for students to connect with new people and new ideas.  A variety of workshops will be offered during two sessions, college representatives, volunteer opportunities and a keynote speech by Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D. 

Applications are available for everyone interested.  See Maggie Paul or contact the Girl Scout office in Bedford.  627-4158.

Technology Day

Sponsored by UNH and Microsoft Corporation

When:              Friday, March 21. 2008

Time:                8:30 – 1:55pm

Where:             Kinsbury Hall

                        University of New Hampshire

                        Durham, NH

The day will consist of five 50 minute sessions plus a free lunch provided by Microsoft Corporation.  Microsoft’s Keynote speaker will talk about technology trends and the software economy. 

Sessions include:

-         Programming interactive graphics using Alice

-         Programming computer games using Gamemaker

-         Demonstrations by the UNH InterOperability Lab, testing data networking technologies through industry collaboration

-         Demonstrations by UNH Project 54, working to place advanced technology into police cars

-         Demonstrations by UNH Data Visualization Research Lab

-         Hands-on LASER demonstrations

Contact:            Philip.hatcher@unh.edu

                        John.lacourse@unh.edu