Career and Technical Education BUSINESS ZONE PROJECT CAREER EXPLORATION
Tucson Unified School
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Career and Technical Education BUSINESS ZONE PROJECT CAREER EXPLORATION
Tucson Unified School
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What is the Business Zone Project?
The Business Zone Project is an experience for middle school students that allows them to visit businesses in the community that match their interests and aptitudes. The program incorporates supporting curricular activities before and after the job visit.
Goals For Students:
- Begin to identify career interests.
- Observe the daily routine of adult workers.
- Gain an awareness of the academic, technical and personal skills required by particular jobs.
- Develop and apply communication skills by interviewing workers.
- Realize that different jobs are characterized by different work environments.
- Begin to understand the connection between school, work and achieving goals.
- Become a continuous, life-long learner.
Supporting Businesses
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Arts, Communication, Humanities Access Tucson
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Business Systems $199 Computer Stores DM Federal Credit Union Dillard’s KB Home Studio Kinko’s Maya Palace Merrill Lynch Mervyn’s Metro Fitness Michael Bolchalk Marketing New Horizons Computer Learning Center Park Place Mall Posner’s Art Store Safeway TJ Maxx Target Tucson College Villa Feliz Flowers City of Tucson, Parks & Recreation University of Arizona Athletics—McKale Center
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Engineering/Industrial Systems Acorn Associates Architecture, Ltd.
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Health Services Associated Dental
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Ajo Veterinary Clinic |
Studies indicate that students who explore the workplace, do better in school, and are more likely to graduate from high school!
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Social/Human Services |
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A New You Hair & Nails |
Arizona Air National Guard |
| Arturo’s Beauty Salon |
Adventure School |
| Barnes & Noble | Bread & Butter Cafe |
| Brown & Bain | Casual Coif |
| Courtyard by Marriott | Dean A. Sipe, Attorney |
| Deconcini, McDonald, Yetwin, Lacy, P.C. | Ford Elementary |
| Ft. Lowell Elementary | Gadabout |
| Gateway Ice Center | Girl Scouts of America |
| Healy & Studwell | Hilton Hotel |
| Humane Society | Jack Lasseter, Attorney |
| Inn Suites | Kindercare |
| Kinerk, Beal, Schmidt & Dyer | King, Frisch & Allen |
| LaPetite Academy | LaQuinta Inn |
| Law Office of Paul B. Bartlett | Marriott Residence Inn |
| Military Recruiters | Miss Anna’s Preschool |
| Pima Community College Police | Pima County Juvenile Court |
| Rose Elementary | Savvy Salon |
| Sheraton Park Hotel | Starr Pass Golf Resort |
| The Good Egg | Today’s Kids Preschool and Child Care |
| Tretschok McNamara | Tucson Fire Department |
| Tucson Police Department | University of Arizona Police |
| U.S. Border Patrol | West, Christoffel, Konigsberg & Zickerman |
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YMCA |
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The Format:
Participating Schools:
| Carson | Maxwell |
| Dodge | Townsend |
| Valencia | Wakefield |
CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Lee Instructional Resource Center
2025 E. Winsett
Tucson, Arizona 85719
Phone: (520) 225-4652
Fax: (520) 225-4873
Email: Kathy.Prather@tusd1.org
Tucson Unified School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its education programs or activities.
