1. Officers: Tom McGinn- President Kirk Lynn- Vice President Paul Furton- Treasurer Sue Gallagher- Secretary Committee Chairs: Jim Cleveland- Website Mock Interviews/ Career Conversations- Nancy Jackson Financial Literacy- JoAnne Brack/ Kirk Lynn Guest Speaker directory- Andy Byrd

3. 1. Mock Interview advisory: November 20, 2015 a.Focus: Interviewing preparedness and resume writing b.21 business partners facilitated 11 th grade advisories. (421 students, 42 volunteer hours) c.Video explaining overall process shown to students 2. Mock interviews/ Career Conversations: December 7- 10, 2015 a.Focus: Interviewing skills, Career awareness, Resume b.255 volunteers (324 hours, 59% increase) c.Phone Interviews

4. Newly implemented this year: Phone Interviews

5. 3. Financial Literacy Lessons: March 18, 2016 a.Focus: 10 th (Saving) 11 th (budgeting/ saving) 12 th (credit card awareness) 1,373 students b.60 business partners facilitated 10 th, 11 th & 12 th grade advisories (60 hours) 4. Continued development of guest speakers series list for faculty (year-long) a.Focus: matching teacher needs with field experts b.45 in data bank (18% increase)- 36 different topics c. Sample topics presented to classes: Health & Drug Ed, Stock market, Media productions, Business management, Entrepreneurship, Employment, Speech & debate, Leadership, Human Resources, Government, Business credit, Patents, Brand & image creation, forensics, technology, Biology, culinary

8. 5. Co-curricular support (year-long) a.DECA b.Technology Student Association c.PLTW d.STAR e.Chick Fil A Leader Academy f.Diamond Challenge- 2 team Finalist’s at AACC, First place International Competition (Business Idea Competition $10,000) Signature a.Entrepreneurial Fair- Oct. 29, 2015 (180 students, 14 presenters) b.Health Fair- Feb. 4, 2016 (310 students, 15 presenters) c.Explorations Course- feedback for Explorations final pitches

9. AACPS support-21 st Century Education Foundation a.21 st Century Education Foundation Breakfast-Kirk Lynn b.AACPS Business Partner of the Year- Ivan George SAIL AAMC

10. Your support! 516 hrs