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PBS News will provide live coverage of President Biden’s farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office.
Presidential Biden’s Address: A PBS News Special airs Wednesday, January 15 at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV.
The live coverage, co-anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett, will include Biden’s address, followed by analysis from the PBS News team.
Please note: Following the special coverage, PBS will rejoin the regularly scheduled programs already in progress.
Hear about what youth experience in the Veterinary Technicians Explorer Program. Career Exploration with Seneca Waterways Explorer Program shows high school juniors and seniors the career path for becoming a licensed veterinary technician and the career options available with that license.
Veterinarian Tech Explorer Program Learning About Canine CPR
Rochester EXPLORING is a program for high school students to check out careers they are interested in. Through a variety of available career programs, groups of students learn more about a particular field through hands-on activities led by people out in the real world.
Did you ever wonder what it’s really like to be a veterinarian or vet tech? Or a firefighter or EMT? What it’s like to be an attorney and try a case in front of actual judges? Do you like to work in cars and wonder if auto mechanics is the career for you? So, you think you want to be an engineer – do you know that there are many different kinds of engineers out there?
EXPLORING CAREER FIELDS INCLUDE:
Arts & Humanities
Aviation
Business
Communications
Engineering & Technology
Fire & EMS
Health Care
Law & Government
Law Enforcement
Science
Skilled Trades
Social Services
Why wait until after high school to find out what it’s like in a career field? Learn about the Rochester Explorers Program
Hear about what youth experience in the Firefighter Explorer Program. Career Exploration with Seneca Waterways Explorer Program shows 14-21 year olds the career of firefighting as a volunteer or a professional.
Hear about what youth experience in the Firefighter Explorer Program. Career Exploration with the Seneca Waterways Explorer Program shows 14-21 year olds the career of firefighting as a volunteer or a professional. This segment shows some of the training they receive for search and rescue.
Rochester EXPLORING is a program for high school students to check out careers they are interested in. Through a variety of available career programs, groups of students learn more about a particular field through hands-on activities led by people out in the real world.
Did you ever wonder what it’s really like to be a veterinarian or vet tech? Or a firefighter or EMT? What it’s like to be an attorney and try a case in front of actual judges? Do you like to work in cars and wonder if auto mechanics is the career for you? So, you think you want to be an engineer – do you know that there are many different kinds of engineers out there?
EXPLORING CAREER FIELDS INCLUDE:
Arts & Humanities
Aviation
Business
Communications
Engineering & Technology
Fire & EMS
Health Care
Law & Government
Law Enforcement
Science
Skilled Trades
Social Services
Why wait until after high school to find out what it’s like in a career field? Learn more about Exploring Programs. Learn about the Rochester Explorers Program
Job Corps helps students to complete high school and then begin skilled trades or service training. Student can pursue skilled trades, healthcare CNA or LPN, among 70 other professions. Students pursue their academics, soft skills training, vocational career technical training and then are assisted with job placement. Job Corps is national residential education and job training program for young adults ages 16–24. Learn more here at Iroquois Job Corps in Medina, NY
Job Corps Overview
Job Corps Students Demonstrating Skilled Trades for High Schools Students
Job Corps Accommodations and Inclusion
The Value of Skilled Trades at Job Corps
Attend Career Exploration Events, Participate in Job Shadows, Go on Information Interviews, Intern, Apprentice.
These are all great opportunities for learning about jobs.
See videos from this Career Exploration Event.
Business came out in droves to support GLOW with Your Hands Career Event. They see the need to help students find career pathways. They have openings in their businesses and want to encourage students to consider all of their options for going to work right after high school. They are willing to train their workers for specific skills needed. Students benefit from hands-on opportunities by better understand the changes in fields like agriculture, construction and manufacturing.
Area Businesses Meet the Future
Out of the Classroom Career Exploration
Construction Careers at GLOW with Your Hands
What Do Students Learn At Camp HardHat?
Camp Hard Hat: Exploring Construction Careers
How do Career Exploration Events Change Lives?
Career Exploration Events Draw Students Into New Career Pathways
GLOW with Your Hands Virtual is a companion website to an annual hands-on event for students from schools in the GLOW region. The website provides on-demand career video content highlighting opportunities available right here in our GLOW region, ladders of educational pathways to employment, and a panorama of programs and events designed to excite students about the world of work, create career awareness, and offer exploration. Learn More: Connect to GLOW with Your Hands Virtual
Disability doesn’t stop these blind and visually impaired individuals from having a fulfilling career in sewing for the US Military
Fit 2 Stitch Sewing Careers for the Blind airs Thursday, August 1 at 9:30 p.m. on WXXI-CREATE.
On this episode of Fit 2 Stitch, the gang travels to Envision Dallas, where people who are blind or visually impaired are taught to sew. We all want a job that’s more than just a way to make money; a job that makes a difference. At Envision, while sewing articles for the US military, workers develop a sense of independence and accomplishment in their careers.
This Old House partners with Homes for Our Troops (HFOT).
This Old House Veteran’s Special House Project airs on Wednesday, August 21 at 12:30 a.m. on WXXI-TV
In this special feel-good episode of This Old House, the crew builds and renovates a house with a cause in Hopkinton, New Hampshire for a wounded Iraq War veteran.
Artists and healthcare clinicians present alternative perspectives on disability.
Arts + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity airs Thursday, October 31 at 11 a.m. on WXXI-WORLD.
Through stories and performances, artists and medical professionals redefine what we perceive as “normal.” Co-hosted by artist and storyteller Kevin Kling, professor Jessica Horvath Williams, Ph.D., and Dr. Tsegaensh Selameab, the program discusses issues of varying abilities through the arts and shares unique perspectives from a wide range of contributors who offer insight on the meaning of accessibility.
This documentary is presented as part of WXXI and the Golisano Foundation’s Move to IncludeTM, an award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media.