April 27, 2005 – Current

Palisades Charter High School

Career Day:

Part of our Community support is centered on the local high school student interests, in attending a University for higher education in the field of their endeavor.

At this yearly Career Day event, we are allocated space in the middle of the high school circulation area. During the day we volunteer to share the process of Architecture and General Contracting, with students interested in pursuing this as their career.

This is also a wonderful forum for students to gain insight into various University programs. Explaining the day to day experience at a particular University, surprisingly not hugely different from years ago, provides them with an 'eye opening' feel of what they might experience.

Also, some students are quite interested in the licensing requirements, for instance to become an Architect. We explain that it takes a minimum of (8) years experience and then passing a (42) hour State Board Exam (this is when their facial expression changes a little bit).

It’s also amazing how some students sense overall concepts and benefits so well. For instance, we were explaining to a student what the Design-Build concept is and received an interesting reply: “It sounds like it’s kind of like having everything you want right on your phone”.

Barry Shaw & Associates, Inc. is available to participate in other similar venues as well; please contact us further.

Best Regards,

Barry