LeadHers Vacation Program 2020 - Week 2, Day 4
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Personal Development Workshop: Post Secondary Education Exploration
The Post Secondary Education Exploration presentation was presented by Spencer O. Richards. In this presentation he highlighted key things like: Finding the right school, Applying, Exploring, Gap year programs and Financial aid etc.. Followed by a quick Q&A and some giveaways.
College and Career Readiness/Prep
The College and Career Readiness/ Prep presentation was presented by a guest speaker Miss. Dearest Leemue Preston, who is a student of Mother Patern College of Health Sciences. Miss. Preston is the founder of Hope For All Initiative Liberia, she is the director of Social Media Advert Monrovia and also volunteer at Youth For Change Inc and Stella Girls Liberia International.
Miss. Preston talked about advantages and disadvantages she faced as a female in the Liberian society and her steps she took in preparing for college life and career goals. She talked about the value of a WOMAN and how women are Powerful and Limitless.
Final Computer Session
The 2nd session of the Microsoft Excel Computer Literacy Session was a continuation of what the girls learned in the first session. Each participant worked on adding the figures on their spreadsheets and creating graphs and tables.
Excel Session 2 (create a 5x5 number table on excel)
Basic formulas (add, subtract and multiply)
Percentages
Creating graphs and the different graph types
Pivot tables
Finding the max and min
If time; conditional formatting
Fun/ Game Session
The Fun/ Game session was turned into a Thank You Card making session for the Sponsors with the girls. Which was all about cutting, gluing and coloring shapes and papers. And for every card that was made the secret ingredients was: love, happiness and smiles.