Upcoming Events
Building Successful Startups
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023; 3 p.m. MST
Location: Palmer Hall Room 128
Come learn how Vance founded multiple enterprise software companies, received investments from venture capital and private equity, and now supports founders with his tech-focused accelerator “Exponential Impact”.
Teach For America: Chipotle & Chat
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023; 3 p.m. MST
Location: Carriage House
In collaboration with the Career Center, Teach For America will host a Lunch and Learn with special guests and the Managing Director of TFA Colorado Springs, Kylia West. Network with and hear directly from Colorado leaders on how you can impact education locally. This event is open to all undergraduate and graduate students.
Seniors and Graduate Students: Full-time post-grad jobs (Colorado Springs, Pueblo, or Denver). All majors accepted. Full salary and benefits + $5k-$10k stipend + up to $12k Americorps grant. Start this June after graduation.
Juniors, Sophomores, and First-Year Students: Paid internships available.
*Contact Gaby Johnson (gaby.johnson@teachforamerica.org) for questions.
Highlighting Your Global Experience for Employers & Grad School
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023; 12:15-1:15 p.m. MST
Location: Carriage House
Join us for a workshop about how to showcase your global experience on a resume and tips for cover letters and interviews. We will discuss strategies for where to include abroad and study away experiences, as well as international research, pre-college experiences, work abroad, and more.
Engaged Career Panel: Making a Difference while Getting Paid
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023; 3:30-5 p.m. MST
Location: Yalich (Spencer) Board Room
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Join the CCE for a panel of local CC alum in public good careers! Come see how alum translate their CC degrees into careers for the public good. Panelists will share their experience working in the nonprofit and public sectors, reflect on their journeys to that work (including their CC experience), and give advice to students seeking to find a career path in which they can make a difference AND get paid.
Panelists represent nonprofits, city government, public academia, foundations, social entrepreneurship, and organizing :
- Meg Yevara ’10 (Program Coordinator, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum)
- Sergio Portesan ’16 (Big Futures Program Specialist, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Pikes Peak Region)
- Ryan Trujillo ’06 (Deputy Chief of Staff, City of Colorado Springs)
- Candace Woods ’13 (Owner, Woods + the Wild)
- Phoenix Chang Roper ’22 (Program Associate, El Pomar Foundation)
Information Session with the Defense Intelligence Agency
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023; 1:30-2:30 p.m. MST
Location: Carriage House
Interested in applying to the DIA? Want to gain insight about working there? Come join our guest speaker and UCCS lecturer on intelligence in political science.
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