Category Archives: Field trips

Hope Life Skills ‘Networking Night’ at McCoy Stadium: June 22, 2015

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Life Skills alum and current University of Rhode Island sophomore, Jerry Bonne Annee (left), speaks with Scott Jensen, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, inside the suite at McCoy Stadium during a Pawtucket Red Sox game as other students and business people check out the action from the field level seats adjoining the suite.

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Networking and brand building taking place within the suite with food and beverages served while the Pawtucket Red Sox game unfolds outside on the field.

This Life Skills field trip has become an annual ‘final exam like‘ event where students use the networking and personal brand building skills developed during the school year to meet and speak with successful members from the area’s business community and colleges and universities.    And, now that the grades are in, it’s no surprise Hope High’s Life Skills students passed with distinction.   Area business leaders were universally impressed with the Hope High students.  “Their poise is impressive” one businesswoman remarked.

“They present themselves professionally,

more than many people I meet during the course of a business day.  From their eye contact, smile and hand shake during a greeting and their genuine interest during a conversation to a sincere ‘thank you’ then request for my business card, these students get it.  You talk about ‘brands’, these students from Hope High have great brands!“

Here are pictures telling the rest of the story from last night’s event at McCoy Stadium.  And, we save the best for last.  One student threw out the first pitch of the baseball game!

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Field Trip: Roger Williams University; May 8th, 2015

Fernando Perez, Raymond Perez, Olimpia Aldana Perez, Manny Rivas, Gisabel Salcedo, Hafzat Akani, Jessica Dough, Richard Quinnila Gonzales, Zach Reyes and Joan Tueros traveled to Bristol, Rhode Island for a day of inquiry and discovery at Roger Williams University.   The

trip proved ‘questions are more important than answers’ and ‘getting out of one’s comfort zone creates opportunities for valuable lessons learned’.

Students also had an opportunity to see first hand the benefits of networking as our University tour guide, Juan, seemed to know everyone on campus!  At Roger Williams University,

everyone knew Juan!

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THE man on campus , our tour guide, Juan!!!!!  It seems Juan knew everyone and everyone knew Juan.  Amazing!

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Juan leads Life Skills students to the Athletic Center which featured a fitness center for all students, pool and basketball arena.

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Today’s Class: March 20, 2015

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The 2014-2015 Hope High School Life Skills class at the corporate campus of CVS in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

For the fifth consecutive year, Hope High’s Life Skills class visited the campus of

CVS, the 12th largest company in the world with $139 BILLION dollars in revenue, to learn about working in a world class organization.

Carlos Sanchez, the Senior Director of Advertising Production, CVS/pharmacy, once again coordinated the event featuring guest speaker, Jose Cid – Specialty Pharmacy Account Executive, and multiple breakout information sessions with representatives from several internal CVS departments:

pharmacy

marketing/promotional planning

information technology/app development

marketing/copywriting

supply chain management

procurement/vendor relationships

store operations

graphic design

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Field Trip: Teespring, Davol Square, Providence, Rhode Island. February 13, 2015

‘Teespring‘? you ask……

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Teespring

Here’s what Forbes Magazine recently wrote about the company:

“Some tech companies look to change the way we communicate or travel in space.

Teespring helps people sell t-shirts. Custom, well-made t-shirts.

And it’s good at what it does.

Teespring sold 6 million shirts in 2014. Hundreds of its customers make more than $100,000 a year selling the teeshirts they design on the TeeSpring web site. ………At least ten customers have become millionaires selling their teeshirts through Teespring! ….. For 2015, the startup plans to go even bigger.  The company has raised millions of dollars from investors.

“This isn’t about t-shirts, it’s not about crowd-funding, it’s about the concept that bringing something to market should be as easy as the idea,” says cofounder and CEO Walker Williams. “All we need is visionaries with the ideas.”

Teespring….handles the nitty-gritty of selling your own shirts, from payment to manufacturing and shipping. The idea came about as Williams and cofounder Evan Stites-Clayton were seniors at Brown University and a local favorite bar was closing. Amid the outpouring of student emotion on Facebook about that” closing, the entrepreneurs decided they wanted to sell shirts expressing support for the watering hole, only to find the logistics daunting. They eventually set up their own website and sold hundreds of shirts, then brought the idea to an investor group…….”

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Dawn Hernandeze proudly wears the original teeshirt created by the Founders of Teespring which launched the idea for the company.

The Hope ‘Life Skills’ class arrived at the Teespring office at Davol Square in Providence around 11am and were quickly greeted by members of the TeeSpring team with

a thunderous Hope High cheer,

friendly smiles, handshakes and free ‘Euro’ teeshirts!

Ashley Nutini brought us to a comfortable lounge for snacks and drinks and began the day’s program with a presentation about the company. Ashley is in charge of ‘People Operations’.  Some company’s refer to Ashley’s responsibilities as ‘Human Resources’.

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Teespring’s Ashley Nutini begins the Teespring story of the two Brown University students who started the company.

Ashley then introduced us to a team of Teespring specialists who shared their stories of helping customers design, market and sell their teeshirts on Teespring.

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