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Building Employability Skills

Students work as a team to create towers from everyday objects in order to build key employability skills.

Caring for Healthy Skin

Students learn about common skin problems, how Johnson & Johnson chemists create products that improve and repair skin quality, and what role designers and marketers play in explaining the product to consumers.

Changing Habits

Career coaches help students understand what motivates them, identify examples where they were motivated to make a change, and think about how to apply these lessons in a situation where they hope to motivate others.

Creating a Community Action Project

Students learn the concept of a community action project and create a draft design.

Developing a Business Plan

Students will create a business plan for a successful medical device product launch, such as a blood glucose monitoring sytem or an insulin pump, and present it to the BTE partnership.

Giving Presentations

Students learn and demonstrate high-level presentation skills, including how to present information clearly and compellingly, engage an audience, and project a professional demeanor.

Making a Life Map

Students create a personal credo and life map to use as a graphic organizer for developing a college and career timetable.

Preparing for Informal Interviews

Students interview Johnson & Johnson professionals about their experiences, passions, interests, and higher education pursuits. Ultimately, students understand that a career in health care and science can be rewarding and fulfilling.

Understanding Career Options in the Health Care Field

Students create a mock health care company in order to learn how departments work together and better understand career options.

Working As a Team

Students will learn and practice teamwork skills by working together to make spaghetti bridges—lightweight bridges made of dried pasta.