{"id":6586,"date":"2010-02-10T17:21:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2017-06-21T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:17:12","slug":"leadership-miami-event-invites-youths-to-campus-to-open-mindsopen-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/02\/leadership-miami-event-invites-youths-to-campus-to-open-mindsopen-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Miami event invites youths to campus to \u201cOpen Minds\/Open Doors.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAll things are possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

This message resonated for the 30 students brought to campus recently by the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization to participate in the daylong \u201cOpen Minds\/Open Doors\u201d event.<\/p>\n

According to Garth D. Headley<\/strong> (MS \u201907), director of programs, Center for Leadership, College of Business Administration, the campus visit marks the first of several scheduled \u201cOpen Minds\/Open Doors\u201d activities coordinated by Leadership Miami, a special executive-driven project of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

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Students toured the Office Depot Student Center in the college\u2019s building complex. Garth Headley led the tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis special group of 12- to-15 year-old students has yet to be placed with a big brother or sister,\u201d said Headley, who coordinated the event. \u201cWe wanted to expose them to different types of career paths and to help them gain a better understanding of what Miami offers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campus visit provides insights on career options in business, medicine and athletics.<\/em><\/p>\n

The jam-packed day included a campus tour and presentations faculty and staff from several Florida International University (FIU) departments. Representing the business school, Karyn Bury<\/strong>, marketing and executive coordinator, Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, and Kunle Ekunkonye<\/strong> (PMBA \u201909), web development manager, Department of Marketing, Communications and Recruiting, spoke about the experiences that led them toward their current careers.<\/p>\n

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Garth Headley gave students a tour of the business school\u2019s Bank of America Career Management Services Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition, Robert Dollinger<\/strong>, assistant dean, College of Medicine, guided the students through the steps involved in pursuing a career in medicine. He also conducted demonstrations using a few instruments of the trade.<\/p>\n

A team from the university\u2019s Athletics Department led a tour of the Panther Arena, where the students watched the FIU girls\u2019 basketball team practice.<\/p>\n

Passion fuels a successful career.<\/em><\/p>\n

During his presentation, Ekunkonye showed the students a video of what is involved in photography shoots plus snippets of produced videos with special effects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey asked questions about the photography and videography tools I use and wondered \u2018how do you know when you have a passion for doing something?\u2019\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

The students also participated in an experiential exercise led by Gino Coca-Mir, founder, Project Challenge. Coca-Mir asked them to name an animal with which they identified, then explored what their choices revealed about who they are and what matters most to them.<\/p>\n

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Students from Open Minds Open Doors with Garth Headley who organized the event on the FIU campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe helped them see that they have a world of opportunities when it comes to pursuing a college education and a career of their dreams—a career that allows them to truly do what they love and love what they do,\u201d Headley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAll things are possible.\u201d This message resonated for the 30 students brought to campus recently by the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization to participate in the daylong \u201cOpen Minds\/Open Doors\u201d event. According to Garth D. Headley (MS \u201907), director of programs, Center for Leadership, College of Business Administration, the campus visit marks the first of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[375,468,4551,813,1018,1048,1465,1529,2163,2264],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28314,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/28314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}