Trying to make it stick

Career Fair season is upon us. Last week we did our first high school career fair of the year, and it went well. The bravest of the teenagers were willing to get their hands dirty and butter a bit of lime putty on a few bricks. Tomorrow is our first elementary school career fair of the year. While the teenagers stand back and avoid, the younger kids push and jostle for position to get their hands dirty. While we use frosting and minibricks with the younger ones, they get the same concept as the older ones with the real materials. It's a trick to get information to stick with kids at a career fair, but hands-on certainly seems to help. Many teachers have told us that most kids know they can work at a fast-food restaurant, but most don't know they can build one - and for much higher wages. There's nothing quite like seeing that lightbulb go on over a kid's head to make the effort of a career fair worthwhile. Especially when you are doing four dozen of them in just a few months.