{"id":13657,"date":"2014-11-06T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:50:41","slug":"middle-school-students-help-make-marketing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=13657","title":{"rendered":"Middle school students help make marketing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_973949\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FAMScamp-300x238.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-973949\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-973949\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"FAMScamp\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FAMScamp-300x238.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-973949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Kennett and Phoenixville Middle Schools worked to develop marketing plans as part of Chester County Futures AHEAD Camp.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Chatham Financial hosted the first Chester County Futures AHEAD Camp on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.\u00a0 Over 40 students from Kennett Middle School and Phoenixville Middle School spent the day working on a Project Based Learning curriculum with Chatham Financial staff, attending marketing workshops and learning about careers.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Ernst, Director of Marketing and Communications at Chatham Financial stated, \u201cGetting to work alongside Futures\u2019 bright and energetic students was such a thrill for all the Chatham Financial volunteers.\u00a0 \u00a0We hope the day encompassed for the students what the program is all about; with teamwork, hard work and learning, anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students worked in small teams with both Chatham and Futures\u2019 staff to design a marketing plan for this new middle school program.\u00a0 Students created a Futures AHEAD logo and tagline, developed a plan for students across districts to interact using social media platforms and finally presented their results to a group of 50 Chatham professionals who voted on the winners in each category.\u00a0 The winning logo was linked with Chester County Futures\u2019 logo and the new tagline is \u201cThe Future is Now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Student takeaways from this camp included career exploration, increased 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Skills like Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity and positive interactions with students from outside their home school district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Chatham Financial hosted the first Chester County Futures AHEAD Camp on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.\u00a0 Over 40 students from Kennett Middle School and Phoenixville Middle School spent the day working on a Project Based Learning curriculum with Chatham Financial staff, attending marketing workshops and learning about careers. Tim Ernst, Director of Marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5461,262,253,5460],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chatham-financial","tag-chester-county-futures","tag-kennett-middle-school","tag-phoenixville-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}