Aim High Career Days provide our students with the opportunity to dream big about life beyond middle school. Thank you to our corporate partners who make this essential part of our summer program possible! In 2019, sixteen companies hosted 500 Aim High students at their offices across the Bay Area giving our students the opportunity to explore new industries, engage in hands-on activities and hear inspiring and sometimes surprising stories about their hosts’ career paths. Check out some Career Day highlights below.
Mathematica, a new Career Day partner, hosted Aim High students for the first time at its Oakland office this summer. Students learned about the policy firm’s focus on health, human services and international research. Employees shared how they work at the intersection of data and policy to make progress in public and private sectors.
Students had the opportunity to explore the day to day responsibilities of a policy researcher and learned how to use data to inform decision-making. In a fun project-based activity students competed to see who could spin a coin the longest. They devised hypotheses on what causes a coin to spin longer and collected data points for each hypothesis. They then plotted their data and continued to refine their theories. The students translated their learnings from the activity to real life scenarios.
BlackRock, a new corporate partner, opened their doors to Aim High students for the first time this summer. BlackRock employees delivered presentations that spoke to unique and unconventional career paths that led them to their careers in the global financial services industry, emphasizing the importance of grit and drive. With the assistance of BlackRock staff, students explored their own life road maps and set goals to achieve for their journeys ahead. They encouraged students to explore new passions and possible future career paths by trying new things and participating in extracurriculars at school. One BlackRock employee, a former opera singer, shared how her interest in the role technology plays in the theater led her to her current profession as technical operations manager.
Corporate Partners
[column grid=”3″ span=”1″] 601 West Aaron Gordon Construction Able Services Alaska Airlines Alto Litigation Bank of America BlackRock Carmel Partners Cisco Systems Foundation City National Bank Clark Construction Group Climb Real Estate Collins and Hermann Cozen O’Connor Deloitte Design Media, Inc. Divided Capital Group Dodge & Cox Eastdil Secured Ernst & Young Facebook First Republic Bank FivePoint Communities Ford Motor Company Fund Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP [/column][column grid=”3″ span=”1″] Glynn Capital Google Inc. Grosvernor Americas Inc. Hathaway Dinwiddie High Tide Foundation Hudson Pacific Properties Jefferies LLC Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP KPMG Makena Capital Management Merlone Geier MetLife Investments Mosaic Financial Partners Northern Trust Oracle Pacific Gas and Electric Company Park Tower Penserra Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Prado Group [/column][column grid=”3″ span=”1″] Preferred Bank Pure Storage PwC Randonnee Tours Raymond James Shearman & Sterling Shorenstein Properties Sports Basement Stockbridge Capital Group The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Umpqua Bank US Bank Veritas Investments, Inc. Woodrugg Sawyer & Co. [/column][column grid=”3″ span=”1″]Exciting things are happening at Aim High! Read our blog to stay up to date.
