Partner with Tomorrow’s Talent: Join the Making Waves Academy Career Fair!
Career Fair at Making Waves Academy
🗓️ October 30, 2024
⏰ 12:30-3:30 p.m.
📍 Richmond, CA
Partner with Tomorrow’s Talent: Join the Making Waves Academy Career Fair!
Want to connect with the next generation of talented, diverse, and motivated leaders? The Making Waves Academy Career Fair is an opportunity to connect with and inspire Bay Area high school students to explore future career pathways.
We hope your company or organization will join us!
Why participate?
- Engage with future leaders: Meet students eager to learn about your industry and the opportunities it offers.
- Build your talent pipeline: Showcase your business and attract potential interns, apprentices, or future employees.
- Promote your industry: Highlight the skills and education needed in your field, helping students understand the value of your industry.
- Give back to the community: Make a lasting impact by mentoring and guiding students of color and students from low-income backgrounds as they explore their career options.
- Enhance your brand: Increase visibility within the local community and demonstrate your commitment to education and youth development.
What to expect
- Interactive tabling: Set up a table to engage with students, share information, and answer questions about your industry and business.
- Networking opportunities: Connect with other local businesses, educators, and community leaders who share a commitment to partnering with next generation leaders.
Event details
Date: October 30, 2024
Time: 12:30-3:30pm
Location: Making Waves Academy (4123 Lakeside Dr, Richmond, CA 94806)
Join us!
Could you represent your corporation, business, nonprofit, or community organization at this career fair for students? Join us at the Making Waves Career Fair and help shape the future by inspiring the next generation of leaders. Submit the below form by September 26 and we will provide more information (submitting this form does not guarantee a spot at the fair).
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About Making Waves Education Foundation
At Making Waves, we are committed to educational equity. Making Waves Education Foundation is a Bay Area nonprofit that supports Making Waves Academy – a public charter school with more than 1,100 5th through 12th grade students – and leads college and career programming with more than 430 college students.
Knowing the opportunities that come with a college degree, we partner with historically underrepresented and underserved students to help make college affordable and graduation attainable. Centering the journeys of our students, our personalized approach includes college and career coaching, scholarships, and financial planning.
Our alumni network includes more than 730 college graduates, who earn their degrees and land jobs at more than twice the rate of their first-generation, low-income peers, with 85% graduating debt-free.
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