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Oct. 13, 2006
Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu
Boeing, BCC invite students to learn
about career revolutions in science, technology, engineering, math and business
BELLEVUE, WASH. – Evolving, inspiring and customized careers in high-demand fields is the focus of “Connect to Your Future,” a free student career conference on Nov. 7, co-sponsored by The Boeing Company, Bellevue Community College (BCC) and the Northeast Tech Prep Consortium.
Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar, President and CEO of the Museum of Flight and retired NASA astronaut and scientist, will provide the keynote presentation.
A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Dunbar has logged more that 50 days in space.
Open to all high school and community college students, the ‘Connect to Your Future’ conference is free but pre-registration is required.
Students can register online at www.bcc.ctc.edu/connectyourfuture.
The conference, with nine panel sessions in addition to the keynote speech, runs from 8:30 a.m. until 2:20 p.m. on BCC’s main campus (3000 Landerholm Circle S.E. in Bellevue, at the intersection of S.E. 28th St. and 148th Ave. S.E.) on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Panel session will run about 50 minutes in length, and students can choose which ones to attend.
Dr. Dunbar’s presentation is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in Carlson Theatre.
Students at the “Connect To Your Future” conference will learn that having skills in more than one of the science, math, engineering and technology fields is a key to success.
The conference will also reveal how many professionals in these fields are creating exciting new ‘custom careers’ by applying their skills in a cross-disciplinary fashion to other fields in which they are interested.
Conference sessions will provide many opportunities for students to interact with such panelists as a young nanotechnology scientist, a physician who started a medical software company, a biotechnology researcher and even a rocket scientist.
“I’m delighted to be part of the ‘Connect To Your Future’ conference because I want students to know just how exciting careers in science, technology and related fields are,” Dunbar said. “And, as a nation, we have a pressing need for more trained professionals in these fields to maintain our competitiveness and our technology leadership.”
“Boeing has long partnered with Bellevue Community College to foster excellent educational opportunities and support our community,” said Jerry Bunce, who is responsible for Information Technology Educational Relations for The Boeing Company and is one of the primary conference organizers. “The ‘Connect to Your Future’ career conference is another example of working with students to inspire them to pursue the education that will open up exciting jobs and careers. I hope some of the students attending will consider a career at Boeing.”
The nine panels will focus on industries designated as high-demand in this region and on diversity issues:
- The Green Future: Careers in Sustainability, Environment and Clean Technology
- Personal and Powerful: Women of Influence
- Software Evolution: from Gamer to Developer
- 21st Century Career Revolutions
- Engineering the Future: Dreams (or Ideas) to Reality
- Technology: Faster, smaller, bigger, and better
- Bring Science to Life: Healing, Health and High-Tech
- International Careers: Globally Connected Economies
- Thinkers, Doers, Movers and Shakers: Diversity in Business
The value of the biennial “Connect to Your Future” conference is clear in the experience of former BCC Business student Rae Kang.
“I was fortunate enough to land my first full-time job in Boeing’s rotational program for high achievers – an opportunity I knew about only because I went to the ‘Connect to Your Future’ conference two years ago,” said Kang. “Whoever says that networking is not worth it or that all these speakers and panels are not worth it is wrong. It helped me out two years later at a really critical time.”
Conference sessions will be held in BCC’s Carlson Theatre and buildings C and N.
For further information and to register for the conference, visit www.bcc.ctc.edu/connectyourfuture/about.html.
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