Zoom Into Careers


Junior High and High School Career Workshops for Summer 2012


Registration is now OPEN!

Summer 2012  Zoom dates are June 18 - 21

 

Southeastern Louisiana University is proud to offer a series of exciting career workshops for junior high and high school students. In our hands-on courses, participants explore a career and gain knowledge of the competencies required to succeed in their field of interest. These summer workshops will introduce students to career opportunities available in Louisiana and compatible higher education programs within Southeastern’s college curriculum.

 

Zoom Into Culinary Arts

Get a taste for a career in the Culinary Arts! Do you see yourself preparing interesting and exotic foods on a network food show, or in your own restaurant?

 

Registration Open!

           Zoom Into Culinary

Inventing          

Zoom Into Inventing

Are you ready to create and design the next great idea? Sketch your original invention into 3D using the new and powerful modeling software, Autodesk Inventor.

 

Registration Open!

 

Zoom Into Nursing

Helping patients work to promote health, prevent disease, and cope with illness is the cornerstone of the nursing profession. Learn a variety of handson, basic nursing tasks including changing a sterile dressing, taking blood pressure, starting an IV on a simulator and performing common lab tests. Nurses make it better!

 

New for 2012!

 

Registration Open!

      Nursing   

Zoom Into Photography

         

Zoom Into Photography

Do you want to capture every moment? Your talents with a camera can lead you to a career in photography. Enhance your skills in shooting, lighting, composition, and more.

 

Registration Open!

Zoom Into Television

Do you envision being part of a television or video broadcast team? Take action and learn every aspect of television including writing, producing, anchoring, film editing, and camera operation.

 

Registration Open!

          Television

Zoom into Theatre

         

Zoom Into Theatre

Do you imagine yourself on stage? Perhaps your dream is to write screenplays?  Here is a chance to work in Southeastern's Vonnie Bordon Theatre with professionals and learn what it takes to create a play.  This workshop will end with a short performance showcasing the students' talent!

 

Registration Open!

Zoom Into Criminal Justice  

This program exposes students interested in exploring criminal justice to a variety of real life professionals and provides them with insight into their roles and functions in the criminal justice field. Criminal justice can be both an intense and rewarding career path.

 

New for 2012!

 

Registration Open!

    Criminal Justice     

  Digital Innovation       

Zoom Into Digital Innovation

Do you see yourself in an innovative digital career in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field? If you do, you might be able to become part of a brand new sector of the workforce called the digital engineer. Digital engineers combine IT knowledge with specific engineering knowledge to develop high-tech solutions to engineering problems.  

 

New for 2012!

 

Registration Open!

Zoom into Web Design

Do you want to be able to create and design websites?
In this program, students will learn how text, images and videos get from the world wide web and onto their screen. Students will design and construct their own website.

New for 2012!

 

Registration Open!

  Web Design

 

 

Our workshops are hands-on, using the latest technology in our specialized labs to create an interactive experience. We also incorporate a team component to simulate the dynamics of a real work environment. Friends and family will be invited on the last day to view the new skills participants have acquired.  The overnight option in the dorms on Southeastern's main campus is offered to high school students in workshops on the main campus only.

 

+ Photo Gallery

 

 

Use either of the links below to register. Hurry -- workshops will only accommodate 15 students and only 10 in select workshops.

 

 

+ Register Online

 

+ Mail-in Registration Form (PDF)

 

 

Zoom into Careers was created by a partnership of the following Southeastern colleges and departments:

 

 

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of Communication

Department of Music and Dramatic Arts

Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Southeastern Channel

 

College of Education and Human Development

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

Department of Educational Leadership and Technology 

 

College of Nursing and Health Services

Department of Nursing

 

College of Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science and Industrial Technology 

 

Division of Extended Studies

St. Tammany Center

Livingston Parish Literacy and Technology Center

 

Northshore Technical Community College

 

Livingston Parish School System

 

 

Thanks for Zooming in!

 

Sincerely,

Joan Gunter

Division of Extended Studies

 

 

Contact Us

Extended Studies

800.256.2771

zoom@selu.edu

www.selu.edu/zoom

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