A Speaker A Day

Many local Charlottesville residents who have access to cable are familiar with the CATEC Guest Lecture Series that we show through Public Access, Channel 14. These are speakers that come to CATEC and talk to our students about career paths, opportunities, and the like. We've filmed and edited around a dozen of these sessions that focus on particular career clusters.

Next year we are expanding this series through a different medium. Beginning in the fall we are creating a "Speaker a Day" that will be posted on our web site for our students and web viewers to see. These 15 minute presentations are designed to give brief overviews, speeches, or lessons that pertain to career and life development for our high school students. With 180 days in the school year, we are striving for 180 presenters to shed insightful information for our students.

Each presentation will be filmed in the morning from 8:30-10am with the use of a flip-video and will be posted through YouTube with a link on our web site for others to view. Each video will remain up for one week on our main web page and then moved into our electronic library and categorized for future viewing.

This type of exposure is great for the businesses and our students.

We are signing up speakers now. Email Darah Bonham at dbonham@k12albemarle.org to sign up for your 15 minutes of fame for next year.