Category: Family & Community Engagement

Busy week for ParentCamp! Join us Wednesday 6/17 for Virtual ParentCamp and/or Thursday 6/18 for KC Digital Media Career Camp!

Julia Pile
2020-06-17 Virtual ParentCamp

Busy week for ParentCamp! Join us Wednesday 6/17 for Virtual ParentCamp and/or Thursday 6/18 for KC Digital Media Career Camp! ©ParentCamp, 2019, All Rights Reserved ParentCamp has a busy week this week.  Virtual ParentCamp will be running on Wednesday Night, June 17th AND we are partnering with KC Imagine on Digital Media Career Camp geared towards students (middle through high) on Thursday night.  While all of the professionals are based out of Kansas City area, this is an event for any student interested in one of the many careers in…

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Virtual ParentCamp! Week 11 – Wednesday, June 3rd – Another AMAZING week lined up, we predict room switching. Students please join us in the Careers Room!!

Julia Pile
2020-06-03 Virtual ParentCamp

Virtual ParentCamp! Week 11 – Wednesday, June 3rd – Another AMAZING week lined up, we predict room switching. Students please join us in the Careers Room!! ©ParentCamp, 2019, All Rights Reserved Last week blew us away!  Every room was running at high energy levels!  Thank you so much to Brandon, John, Matthew and Floyd for sharing your stories and giving insight to the parents and students in the Careers Room.  YES!  We had students asking these amazing Virtual Reality/Gaming/Animation professionals how to get started in their fields. There are so…

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Virtual ParentCamp! Week 10 – Collaborate Spanish, Arabic & Equity rooms, Dyslexia and students/parents check out the Careers Series – Exploring Careers and VR & Gaming!

Julia Pile
2020-05-27 Virtual ParentCamp

Virtual ParentCamp! Week 10 – Collaborate Spanish, Arabic & Equity rooms, Dyslexia and students/parents check out the Careers Series – Exploring Careers and VR & Gaming! ©ParentCamp, 2019, All Rights Reserved We hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day holiday weekend!  We have an exciting and packed Virtual ParentCamp planned for you this week! First of all, welcome back to our Arabic friends!  We hope you had a wonderful Ramadan season!   The Spanish room was flying high last week and the equity room is shifting and looking at social…

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Virtual ParentCamp! Week 9 – Career Series Kickoff! Kinship, Equity and Collaborative Spanish Room!

Julia Pile
2020-05-20 Virtual ParentCamp

Virtual ParentCamp! Week 9 – Career Series Kickoff! Kinship, Equity and Collaborative Spanish Room! ©ParentCamp, 2019, All Rights Reserved A few weeks ago we joined a great group of digital media professionals for our very first Industry Camp.  In one of the rooms, the conversations between professionals, educators and students was very inspiring.  We thought, that is a great idea, let’s bring professionals, educators, parents and students together each week and explore various career paths.  The participants of that first Industry Camp were kind enough to offer to facilitate a…

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ParentCamp Team Member, Julie Pile to participate in Educating During a Pandemic: How Local Schools Transformed and What this Means for our Future Workforce panel

Julia Pile
Educating in a Pandemic

Event is free, register at:  https://northernkentuckykycoc.wliinc14.com/events/Educating-During-a-Pandemic-How-Local-Schools-Transformed-and-What-this-Means-for-our-Future-Workforce–3497/details   Friday, May 22, 2020 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST Over the course of a single week in early March, schools across Northern Kentucky were asked to transition to a NTI (non traditional instruction) model for teaching and learning; and K-12 education was dramatically changed. Despite this overnight pivot, local districts rose to the challenge and implemented new systems for staff, students and families that kept learning and the preparation of our future workforce top of mind. Join this timely conversation representing various…

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