powerpoint and acceptance speech
Dear Distinguished Alumni,
You will be honored at the annual TCC Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni reunion award’s ceremony.
In turn, you will need to provide a presentation detailing your academic and career journey to serve as encouragement and inspiration to future TCC graduates.
Your power point presentation will include:
TCC
Learning Preferences
Handling Time Traps
Technical Program, Specialized Program or 4 Year University
Include any programs, colleges and/or universities + their locations
Acceptance criteria
Your degree(s)
Tuition rates
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
Organizations, societies, service learning, Greek life, Intramural athletics
CAREER
Your job
Your employer (original job post)
Salary
Job description
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Discuss how Growth Mindset kept you on track
Your risks and rewards of college/university
Specifically recognize and thank your support system
Sincerely,
TCC Alumni Association
You will explore a career that interests you. If you are undecided, then take advantage of TCC’s Career Coach.
*Type in CAREER COACH in the seach box at www.tccd.edu or go to Course Resources from our courses’ side menu to see instructions.
PLANNING PACKET
1. According to Career Coach or my own interests, I plan to explore this career option:
______________________________________________________________________
At TCC
2. As a TCC student, I discovered ________________________________________ is/are my learning preference(s). I learn best by ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. While at TCC my greatest time traps were:
1. _______________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________
4. I successfully managed these time traps by: ______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
*Now, you will research the following questions and complete it using the information you have learned. You are encouraged to be creative, yet realistic.
Write your future!
TECHNICAL PROGRAM, SPECIALIZED PROGRAM, OR 4 YEAR UNIVERSITY
5. I studied/majored in ________________________________________________
6. Today, I am proud because I have earned the following degrees: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. I attended the following colleges and/or universities ________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8. (Use the bachelor/undergraduate degree for this).
A transfer student applying at ______________________________ must submit these items for consideration: (*Don’t forget to record the website/link at the end of this packet)
· Application fee of $_________
· Essay
· GPA score
· SAT/ACT scores of ________
· College transcripts
· High school transcripts
· Evaluations or recommendations
On average, my tuition cost __________________________ per year. This did not include my food, books, clothes or dorm/apartment. (If you can locate these additional costs, it would be great to share during your presentation!)
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
9. While in college/university, I was involved in the following activities:
· Organizations________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
· Societies____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
· Service learning_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
· Greek life_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
· Intramural athletics_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
· Internships___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
MY CAREER
(Find a job post for this information. Don’t forget to record the website/link)
10. I am still early in my career.
I am a/an (your job)____________________________________________ at (company)_______________________________________________________.
11. At entry level, I currently earn $______________. In the future, I can expect to earn up to $_________________________________________.
12. My job duties include, but are not limited to:
· ________________________________________________________________
· ________________________________________________________________
· ________________________________________________________________
· ________________________________________________________________
· ________________________________________________________________
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH brainstorming
13. When I started at TCC, ____________________________________ was sometimes difficult for me. ___________________ and __________________ were (internal/external) motivators. I never gave up because I believe in growth mindset. Growth mindset means: ______________________________________________________________.
14. Anyone going to college faces risks and rewards. My risks included:
· __________________________________________________________
· __________________________________________________________
· __________________________________________________________
15. But they were offset by these rewards:
· __________________________________________________________
· __________________________________________________________
· __________________________________________________________
16. At this time, I’d like to thank my support system.
· _________________________ (Include someone who is or could be a mentor) for _______________________ (How did they support you?)
· _________________________________________________
for_______________________________________________
· _________________________________________________
for _______________________________________________
*Thank you for your attention. I am happy to accept questions from the audience.
17. Three (3) required websites:
· University website(s)
________________________________________________________________
· Job website
________________________________________________________________
· Other
________________________________________________________________
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