Business Pros to Offer Students Insight on Working World During 8th Annual Duarte’s Promise Groundhog Job Shadow Day

More than 125 Duarte High School students and 50 business leaders will have the opportunity to spend a day together learning and teaching about a variety of careers while gaining valuable insight into the working world during the 98h annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day slated for Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.

The program is sponsored by Southern California Edison, the City of Duarte, Duarte’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth, the City of Hope, Duarte Chamber of Commerce, Cal American Water, and the Duarte Unified School District.

Students will shadow adult mentors as they go about their normal work day in careers including banking, healthcare, politics, education, journalism, printing, real estate, automotive, retail, food industry and utilities, among others. City of Hope, Huntington Courts, Westminster Gardens, Duarte Chamber of Commerce, JPL, Duarte Unified School District, LA County Fire Department, Edison, YMCA, Royal Coaches, Bourbon St. Bistros, Duarte Family Chiropractic, Duarte Field Services, Public Safety, Foothill Unity Center and Little Scholars Montessori Preschool are among the numerous business and industry participants.

Duarte’s Groundhog Job Shadow Day will kick off with an opening ceremony and breakfast for students and mentors at 7:30 a.m. at the Duarte Community Center. After spending the next several hours together on the job, students and mentors will return to the Community Center for a luncheon and a talk featuring Ulises Gutierrez, staffmember, Santa Anita Family YMCA.

For more information or to become a sponsoring worksite, call Duarte’s Promise at 626/357-7931, ext. 267.