Does someone in your PTA deserve a shout out?
​WSPTA has a formal volunteer award recognition program allowing local PTAs to award honors for outstanding educator, advocate, student advocate, and volunteer (Golden Acorn), as well as the honorary life membership award.

Awards are a great way for PTAs to show their community how much they appreciate them and to celebrate the dedication of those who support your PTA's mission and goals!

Local PTAs should appoint an awards committee who will gather nominations, review them, and choose the award recipients. This can be done during a meeting or some PTAs even choose to have the previous year's award recipients chair this committee. When the awards committee advertises for nomination submissions, it can be done via social media, newsletters, website, email, or even school flyers. To make it even easier for members to submit nominations, the awards committee can create an online submission form using tools like Google Forms or Survey Monkey.

For recognizing the award recipients, your PTA can hold a volunteer recognition event or take time during a Membership Meeting to celebrate them. WSPTA offers a variety of items your PTA can order online to celebrate your award recipients including certificates, pins, plaques, and even yard signs!

Volunteers Needed
We are looking for Presenters from ALL career fields and paths, including professional, trade, service industry, stay at home parents – you name it, we welcome it! More importantly, our past surveys show that students are eager hear about every type of job, not just those in the STEM fields.

​There are TWO (2) ways you can volunteer to help with Career Day this year! You can be a Presenter or a Moderator.

​As a Presenter, you will:

• participate using the Zoom platform.
• present alone or may be assigned with one other presenter. Please approach this as a casual conversation. Slides or presentation materials are not necessary.
• meet with 4 rotations of students. Each rotation will last 20 minutes. The last 5 minutes of each rotation should allow for students’ questions. 
• during each of the 4 rotations, you will share information about:
  • Your career journey – the path you took to get to where you are today.
  • Your field / profession – what is it?!
  • Your actual job – what YOU DO (this is the meat of what students want to hear about).

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As a Moderator, you will:

• assist the teacher in moderating the chat window in each virtual classroom.

Sign up to be a Career Day 2021 Volunteer!

To be a Presenter:

• ​Please send an email to careerday2021@outlook.com with include the following:
  • ​​Field of Work*
  • Title*
  • Employer*
  • Brief Bio* (Just a couple of sentences, including your degree, first job (either as a teen or after training/education), a fun fact (what did you want to be when you were a kid, what is your favorite hobby, who inspired you, etc.)) 

*This information will be included in a directory and will help students identify the professions they want to learn more about. 

To be a Moderator:

• Please send an email to careerday2021@outlook.com stating that you want to be a moderator.
• You must also complete district “level 1“ background check. Become a Volunteer - Northshore School District (nsd.org) Click on School and District Volunteer and complete steps 1-3 (background check level 1). 

Goal is to have all 90 presenters and 45 event volunteers secured by the end of February.
If you know of someone that you feel would be an asset to our students, please feel free share this information!

Questions? Contact the District Career Day Committee at careerday2021@outlook.com.