1.  This goal of this homework assignment is for you to use your IMAGINATION.  After listening to Catalina Martinez and Nikolai Pawlenko’s career stories at NOAA exploring the world’s oceans today, please imagine yourself accompanying them on a deep dive of one of the world’s deepest ocean floors.  Please share with me something ‘amazing’ or ‘surprising’ you encountered during your ocean exploration with Catalina and Nikolai.  Then, describe what you saw;  use adjectives to describe the color, size and shape of whatever amazed you at the deepest part of your dive to the ocean floor.   Send the story of your amazing discovery at the bottom of one of the earth’s oceans to my email address by Sunday evening, November 25th.  Please identify what ocean you were exploring when you encountered this amazing site.  Your story must be well written with perfect spelling, good grammar and punctuation, and short sentences.   Here are some interesting photos and a video from other explorations of the world’s ocean floors to help you liberate the imagination you have within you.

One of the highlights of a research robot dive was the encounter with a dumbo octopus at it uses his ear-like fins to slowly swim away – this coiled leg body posture has never been observed before in this species.

ROV Deep Discoverer explores the interesting geomorphology of Bryant Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico.  This photo is from the NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program on a 2014 Expedition

More than two miles down, the site of the bow of the great ship, Titanic, emerged from the darkness on a dive by explorer and filmmaker James Cameron in 2001.  A number of expeditions were previously launched to find Titanic, which sank in 1912, but wasn’t found until September 1st, 1985, during an expedition led by Robert Ballard.  Robert Duane Ballard is a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is famous for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is best known for the discovery the RMS Titanic in 1985.  Catalina mentioned Mr Ballard during today’s class.  The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner or cruise ship that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of April 15th, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her first voyage leaving from Southampton England to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time. The ship might have survived a head-on collision with an iceberg, but a sideswipe across her starboard side pierced too many of her watertight compartments.

1.  For those students who have NOT given me your resume, send your resume to my email address OR give me a printed copy next class.  Follow the resume format posted on the October 19th blog posted on this web site.  Your resume is important.  Thank you.
2. Send your 5 Clifton Survey Strengths by Tuesday, November 6th, to my email address.  I will add your strengths to your business card information.  I am hoping to have PRINTED BUSINESS CARD PROOFS for you to approve by November 16.
3.  WE ARE PREPARING FOR DECEMBER 5th’s FUTURE FORUM.  As a result, please finish your reading of THE FUTURE book.   I am hoping your reading of the book will prepare you for the workshop portion of the forum where you’ll be asked in your small group to share an idea for a future career.  The forum workshop is meant to challenge you, to liberate your imagination, ignite your creative thinking, to share your ideas about a possible career or new business you could start;  it does not have to be probable, only possible.
4. Please send me an email by Tuesday, November 6th  identifying a phrase, sentence, or photo you encountered in THE FUTURE book which resonated with you.  In other words, tell me the phrase, a quotation, sentence, or photo in The Future book which caused you to pause and think about ‘its‘ potential impact on you and your life.
5.  Check out the agenda for the FUTURE FORUM workshop listed below:

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Agenda

1. 9:am – Meet/Greet and Networking:
   

   Students meet and welcome our guests:   corporate ‘Futurists’ and visiting LaSalle Academy students.  Students will exchange business cards and continue to build their networks in the process.

2. 9:30am – Opening remarks by Stephen Cronin
   9:40am – Visions of the Future:

   • Steve Cronin will interview 2 futurists about their visions of what our students will encounter when they enter an “artificially intelligent” (AI) influenced job market post 2024.

   10:00am – Workshop Activity.

            • Students will organize into small groups with one or two corporate ‘Futurists’ for a collaboration to determine an interesting, potential economically successful, ‘future career opportunity’. This activity will begin with each futurists taking 5 minutes to speak with students in their group about their career path and their present job. After each group’s collaboration about a POSSIBLE future job or career pursuit, a group spokes person will answer the following questions:

                The service or product the student group creates and sells

                The customer – who will buy the product or service the company sells; e.g automobile owners, aqua-farmers, space travelers, fashion retail stores, parents, adolescents, adults, everyone, etc

               The role artificial intelligence will play in the company; NB – please give at least 3 examples of tasks AI will perform in the company

              The name of the company the students start OR the company they will work for.

              Marketing channels (newspapers, television, social media, direct mail, etc) used to reach its customers and attract new ones

              The geographic market the company will serve; e.g international, just African countries, just United States, just Europe, just Iceland, just Texas USA, intergalactic, etc

            The role each student will play in the company

           The President of the company

   11:15am – Announcements – one student from each group will present their
   2025 career vision.
   11:50am –     Closing comments – Stephen Cronin
   Noon –        Networking over a delicious Lunch at Hope High School: follow up student networking opportunity with our guests.
   1pm –   Dismissal