When I Grow Up Career Expo

Description

The When I Grow Up Career Expo is not your typical career fair, yet it offers an exciting, modern twist for children of all ages, including hands-on experiences, performances, competitions, industry speakers, and great food, all related to our local labor market career fields.

The goal of the event is to expose students to the wide variety of careers in our region that they may not typically think or know about. Beginning with elementary students, we seek to provide career awareness and exploration activities to students and their families while students in middle and high school can learn how to get to the next phase in their future career pathway.

In previous years the event drew thousands of attendees from all over Houston. More than 150 HISD schools were in attendance and many of their career and technical education programs demonstrated some incredible talents of their students. Live and interactive displays covered a wide variety of high growth, high demand career fields.

The 3rd Annual When I Grow Up Career Expo continues to expand as we add engaging activities and industry panel discussions for all. HISD is inviting its entire student population of 215,000 students as well as their families to attend and participate in this exciting event.

This free event is a great opportunity to showcase careers at your company, educate students on potential career fields, and engage parents at the same time. We hope that you will plan to set up a booth and/or an interactive experience to provide students of any age career building information. Historically, many companies choose to bring out vehicles or demonstration models for student interaction which is always a big hit.