Media

This is the Media page with power points and videos you can use:

 * "Benefits of AP**" Overview Power Point for use on the first day:

The video clip with the inspirational interview with Bev Kearney, the head Univ. of Texas track coach, about following your passion and setting your goals is below: =[]= With never a bitter thought about her misfortunes, Bev Kearney has dedicated herself to becoming a prominent coach for college track and field. During her senior year in high school, her mom passed away in her sleep. Struggling to survive, Bev enrolled in college on a track and field scholarship. After earning her degree, she moved in with her sister in California, where she worked three jobs to pay the bills. Broke and without any career goals, she decided to go to grad school. While they offered her an education, food, and shelter, they also offered her a job to coach the men's and women's sprinters. From there, everything just got better. By the time she was twenty-four, she was the head coach at a Division One school. By the time she was in her early thirties, she became the first black head coach in the University of Texas. Full Length Interview Duration 08:17:

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Damon Dash claims he still doesn’t know what he’s going to be, yet he has always been sure of one thing: he's going to be successful. Growing up in Harlem, he acquired the entrepreneurial skills he would need to capitalize on those opportunities when they did arise. Instead of hanging out on a stoop in Harlem, as he once did, he now hangs out at his plush office in downtown Manhattan and gets paid handsomely for being there. As Dash recounts, personal tragedy also shaped his rise to the top. A turning-point occurred after his mother died. Only a teenager, he lost his sense of security and knew he had to take care of himself. Obliterated by the loss, he became fearless. At the same time, he tried to follow the Golden Rule by treating others as he wanted them to treat him. For someone who was the class clown and to his high-school peers probably the most unlikely to succeed, Dash has come a long way—without formally studying music, fashion, business, film, or any of the other enterprises with which he has been engaged. He combines an unflagging belief in himself with a strong work ethic.

 =[]= Andrew Steele, with his long, wavy hair, pushed haphazardly from his face with a thin, red headband, looks more like the guitarist for a heavy-metal band than an astrobiologist. Today, Andrew has a career that's well suited for him, but the British scientist didn't always know what he wanted professionally. Following his interest in biology, Steele pursued advanced degrees in biochemistry and microbiology. Uncertain where these degrees would lead him, he simply took the path he enjoyed. In the process, he kept doors open for possibilities. Then, in 1996, Steele heard of a 'geezer' from NASA who claimed he had found life on Mars from a bacteria-ridden meteor. Having received his Ph.D. just three weeks earlier, an excited Andrew called up NASA and promised better images of the sample. Because Andrew had previously done some high-powered imaging of bacteria, NASA sent him a piece of meteorite for him to study. After receiving his research, NASA was so impressed with his work that they invited him to join their team. “I sort of object to systems that pigeon-hole you early on into saying you must decide, now, what you need to do. That's a load of BS.”

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson grew up with music. He started drumming when he was 2 and got his first drum set when he was 8. To become the musician his father wanted him to be, he practiced three to five hours a day. Although his father wanted him to be a top session musician, Questlove had plans of his own. Without telling his father, he and some friends formed The Roots, a hip-hop band that played on the streets of Philadelphia for donations. Around that time Questlove faced a crossroads: Unable to afford the prestigious Julliard School, where he had been accepted, he was free to travel with his band mates and to capitalize on the record deal that they landed. Now that The Roots have experienced longevity, he still takes nothing for granted. Wiser than when he first started out, he admits that the music industry has taught him to think like a chess player. “I’ve got to think 12 steps ahead,” he says. “I think the true answer to life is proper planning.”



CollegeBoard Career & College Major
Have students go to this college board webpage and go to the"**careers that fit**" link first where they can take a short personality inventory and then go to the "Careers and College Majors profile" link and let them investigate the careerrs that their personlaity profile suggested. Give them time to search around that site for other information on careers or college majors.