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EfTA's students design posters to promote internships
By CHOYCE YBARRA
Magnolia students recently gathered to help design posters promoting Education for Tomorrow Alliance’s new Student Internship Program.
The posters were created Dec. 15 after Montgomery County students heard a presentation by Dawn O’Brien, founder of I Promote You, a promotional products company that helps companies market their businesses. I Promote You will reproduce the posters to be hung in every partnering high school campus.
The students decided what would be effective in promoting the EfTA program through their posters, then they designed the posters.
“The promotional side is the most fun side for me,” O’Brien said. “I try to make them think about the items they’re going to give, so the customer values the item more and not just stuffs it into a drawer.”
She enjoys the students’ creativity and their openness, she said. They always give great feedback as to what to do with the posters throughout their schools, she said. The posters will be delivered to the school councilors who will designate students to hang them.
“The biggest thing for me is the Student Internship Program, I’ve never been a mentor before and just finding out what they want to do for the rest of their life as a career is greatly valued by the students. It’s very impressive,” O”Brien said. “EfTA is doing a great job spearheading.”
EfTA was founded in Conroe independent School District, now serves The Woodlands and has expanded out into Magnolia. The EfTA utilizes volunteers to help students pin point what careers they would like to pursue, said Sheryl Sitts Manager of Communications and Development for EfTA.
“We’re a really small organization, we have four employees,” Sitts said. “We have two part-time and two full-time.”
The nonprofit EfTA’s mission is to partner schools with businesses, and civic groups to enhance education and provide meaningful volunteer opportunities for school-business interaction, according to the organization’s web site. EfTA’s Student Internship Program invites eleventh grade students to participate in 80 hours of real-world experience in a profession of interest to them during the summer preceding their senior year. Students and mentors are honored each June at the South Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber’s business luncheon. Host sites are currently being sought to publish in a comprehensive job directory early next year!
“Anyone can sign up to mentor students on careers before going and spending money for college working in a field that they may later find is not the best field for them,” said Sitts. “We bring business professionals to the students.”
EfTA is funded by corporate sponsorships and private donations, by about 75 percent. Contributions are tax deductible. Corporate partners are: Huntsman, Chevron Phillips Chemical, CB&I, Entergy Texas, Hughes Christensen, Truth Chemical & Solvents, PBK Architects.
EfTA serves both public and private schools in Montgomery County, for a fee based on school enrollment figures and programs which students participate in. The fee, paid by the schools, covers the remaining 25-percent. Educational partners are: Magnolia ISD, Conroe ISD, Montgomery ISD, Christ Community, The John Cooper School, Rubicon Academy, Sacred Heart Catholic, St. Anthony of Padua, Woodlands Preparatory School and The Woodlands Christian Academy.
According to the EfTA’s web site, community partners are: Lone Star College-Montgomery, The University Center, The Mark Woodings Education Foundation, The Woodlands Township, Greater Conroe/Lake Conroe Area Chamber of Commerce and South Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber of Commerce.
EfTA was founded in 1989 and now serves more than 60,000 students. All programs are volunteer-facilitated and include SCI://TECH regional science fair in February, CHOICES for eighth graders, Take a Stand for ninth grade students, the Student Internship Program for incoming seniors and the Student Advisory Council of EfTA ambassadors at all campuses served.
Become a Mentor
For more information on EfTA or to register to mentor visit the web site at www.efta-us.org (mentors click the Student Internship Program icon) or call 936-271-6150.
The posters were created Dec. 15 after Montgomery County students heard a presentation by Dawn O’Brien, founder of I Promote You, a promotional products company that helps companies market their businesses. I Promote You will reproduce the posters to be hung in every partnering high school campus.
The students decided what would be effective in promoting the EfTA program through their posters, then they designed the posters.
“The promotional side is the most fun side for me,” O’Brien said. “I try to make them think about the items they’re going to give, so the customer values the item more and not just stuffs it into a drawer.”
She enjoys the students’ creativity and their openness, she said. They always give great feedback as to what to do with the posters throughout their schools, she said. The posters will be delivered to the school councilors who will designate students to hang them.
“The biggest thing for me is the Student Internship Program, I’ve never been a mentor before and just finding out what they want to do for the rest of their life as a career is greatly valued by the students. It’s very impressive,” O”Brien said. “EfTA is doing a great job spearheading.”
EfTA was founded in Conroe independent School District, now serves The Woodlands and has expanded out into Magnolia. The EfTA utilizes volunteers to help students pin point what careers they would like to pursue, said Sheryl Sitts Manager of Communications and Development for EfTA.
“We’re a really small organization, we have four employees,” Sitts said. “We have two part-time and two full-time.”
The nonprofit EfTA’s mission is to partner schools with businesses, and civic groups to enhance education and provide meaningful volunteer opportunities for school-business interaction, according to the organization’s web site. EfTA’s Student Internship Program invites eleventh grade students to participate in 80 hours of real-world experience in a profession of interest to them during the summer preceding their senior year. Students and mentors are honored each June at the South Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber’s business luncheon. Host sites are currently being sought to publish in a comprehensive job directory early next year!
“Anyone can sign up to mentor students on careers before going and spending money for college working in a field that they may later find is not the best field for them,” said Sitts. “We bring business professionals to the students.”
EfTA is funded by corporate sponsorships and private donations, by about 75 percent. Contributions are tax deductible. Corporate partners are: Huntsman, Chevron Phillips Chemical, CB&I, Entergy Texas, Hughes Christensen, Truth Chemical & Solvents, PBK Architects.
EfTA serves both public and private schools in Montgomery County, for a fee based on school enrollment figures and programs which students participate in. The fee, paid by the schools, covers the remaining 25-percent. Educational partners are: Magnolia ISD, Conroe ISD, Montgomery ISD, Christ Community, The John Cooper School, Rubicon Academy, Sacred Heart Catholic, St. Anthony of Padua, Woodlands Preparatory School and The Woodlands Christian Academy.
According to the EfTA’s web site, community partners are: Lone Star College-Montgomery, The University Center, The Mark Woodings Education Foundation, The Woodlands Township, Greater Conroe/Lake Conroe Area Chamber of Commerce and South Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber of Commerce.
EfTA was founded in 1989 and now serves more than 60,000 students. All programs are volunteer-facilitated and include SCI://TECH regional science fair in February, CHOICES for eighth graders, Take a Stand for ninth grade students, the Student Internship Program for incoming seniors and the Student Advisory Council of EfTA ambassadors at all campuses served.
Become a Mentor
For more information on EfTA or to register to mentor visit the web site at www.efta-us.org (mentors click the Student Internship Program icon) or call 936-271-6150.
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