Highlights Archive

Firefighter Explorer 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

Resources: Job Corps

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

Resources: Career Exploration Events

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.

Benefits for Students and Businesses of Attending GLOW with Your Hands

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

Area Businesses Meet the Future Workforce at GLOW with Your Hands

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

Fit 2 Stitch Sewing Careers for the Blind• WXXI-CREATE

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 Veteran’s Special House Project• WXXI-TV

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.

Arts + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity• WXXI-WORLD

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 Include^TM, an award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media.

Symphony Celebration: The Blind Boys of Alabama with Dr. Henry Panion, III • WXXI-TV

A truly unique television program bringing together songs performed by musical legends The Blind Boys of Alabama and a full symphony orchestra.

Symphony Celebration: The Blind Boys of Alabama with Dr. Henry Panion, III airs Friday, August 16 at 9 pm on WXXI-TV, and encores Saturday, August 17 at 4 p.m.

Throughout the program, a documentary storytelling thread uses small vignettes to connect the artists and their songs. Beautifully orchestrated and conducted by Dr. Henry Panion III, Symphony Celebration focuses on messages of humanity, peace and love.

PBS News Special Report: President Biden’s Address • WXXI-TV

PBS and PBS News will provide coverage of President Biden’s Oval Office address to the nation.

PBS News Special Report: President Biden’s Address airs Sunday, July 14 at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

President Biden will speak about yesterday’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

Please note: All programming shifts a half hour from its original time. So Professor T will start at 8:30 p.m., Grantchester at 9:30 p.m. and DI Ray at 10:30 p.m.