Giant Campus Blog

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Since our school launch last week our Enrollment Advisors have had the great opportunity to talk with about 150 high school teens at a local private high school. The response from students and teachers has been incredible!

Many students are interested and have signed-up for the classes that best suit their interests. The below video was played during our time at the school, and it sparked the students and got them really excited about our new class, Computer Aided Design (CAD). Check it out!

The private school’s teachers are working fast on making our spring classes available to the students. The DECA / Marketing teacher is nuts about our program and is currently working on offering our classes during a period or more of school, making the classes easily available to all the students. Our Entrepreneurship class is great for students interested in DECA and marketing! The web design teacher is signing up the entire class for our web design class, to help advance interested students along with dedicated expert instruction.

This is just a quick example of how one school is realizing the complementary educational opportunities with online learning. We look forward to working with more schools in offering valuable technology classes to students across the state!

Our curriculum team is including an exciting new element in our courses called Career Connections. These Career Connection features are short interviews with successful professionals in the field.

The new Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Introduction to Entrepreneurship I courses launching this spring will be the first courses to include this new feature.

Career Connections give students a sense of how the course’s skills are used in the workplace.

Professionals from a variety of careers in the industry help to show the various career options available in this field.

For example, the CAD course features interviews with an architect, an interior designer, a landscape architect, and two engineers.

The Introduction to Entrepreneurship I course features interviews with outstanding young people who became entrepreneurs as teens (or even younger!) in a variety of fields.

Featured entrepreneurs include:

• 15-year-old Lani Lazzari of Simple Sugars (www.simplesugarsscrub.com)
• 17-year-old Web entrepreneur Donny Ouyang of Kinkarso Tech Ltd. (www.kinkarso.com)
• 19-year-old Jessica Cervantes of Popsy Cakes (www.popsycakes.com)
• 22-year-old men’s fashion designer Baruch Shemtov (www.baruchshemtov.com)
• 25-year-old Andrew Mohebbi, who created a successful paintball review Web site as a teen and then sold it

Watch for Career Connection features in these and other new Giant Campus courses!