BCIC and Xilin Northwest hosted the Fall Career Exploration webinar on November 12. Students, parents and teachers enjoyed an interactive panel discussion with three leaders in finance, strategy, chemistry, food science, IT. They addressed the value of Mandarin language skills and knowledge of Chinese culture across their career paths and industries. Many thanks to our panelists:
Seth Morrell, Chief Strategy Officer, Burwood Group, IT Executive with Deep Enterprise, Startup, and Consulting Experience
Dennis van de Graaf, Senior Vice President, Data Governance, Wintrust Financial Corporation
Zheng You, Principal Scientist and Project Manager at Tate & Lyle,
Thank you to Zimin Mineo of BCIC and Roger Yang of Xilin Northwest (also CI parent/BCIC volunteer) for hosting the webinar!
A special thank you to Becky Wiegel, Mr. Yu and Kathryn Wolfkiel for sharing with us updates on the CI program and explaining the process as students move to Middle School and High School. Here is a copy of the slideshow shared at the event: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/128mh7zIsXUNKt6pxvXC88_gZ4yAC-wV2L391rVVoVCk/edit?usp=sharing
Weiqi instruction with Master Guo are going strong at NB!