Career Dreams Educational Foundation

EVALUATION

STUDENT SEMINAR
(high school students Group #1)

Loving High School

Loving, New Mexico

September 18, 2000

Evaluation of Speaker:  

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.9

10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,

Comments:

• I had fun and learned about myself & others.
  
  
• The speaker was cool. I understood what he was trying to say and get out to us.
  
  
• They did good in speaking with everyone.
  
  
• It went well, it couldn’t have gone any better than it did.
  
  
• I really enjoyed listening to both speakers. They conducted themselves very well. I was always interested, because they both had examples or stories to go with what they said.
  
  
• The speaker was excellent. I enjoyed this program. I think we need more speakers like this.
  
  
• I like how they spoke and how they present.
  
  
• He was a good speaker, because he went straight to the point, he was explaining and wasn’t boring.
  
  
• Very good.
  
  
• Did a good job.
  
  
• I like the way we had people work together to find out what to say. And the way he got our attention.
  
  
• He was a nice guy – he didn’t talk to you like you are an idiot, he got involved and helped us.
  
  
• Was clear in what he was speaking and saying – made sense.
  
  
• They were very good speakers and I’ve learned a lot.
  
  
• He made it fun. I wish school could be fun and learn at the same time.
  
  
• I thought he was a good speaker – he was all wide open – wasn’t nervous. I would want him to come again.
  
  
• The speaker did very well. He spoke clearly and very understandable. I enjoyed the speeches.
  
  
• He was real good.
  
  
• Very interesting, enjoyed the speakers very well.
  
  
• You’re a cool guy.
  
  
• Good explanation and spoke very well.

Evaluation of the Program:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.7

10, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 10, 10, 8, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10

Comments:

• It brought out things in people & ideas they didn’t ever think about. This program helps people think about their future.
  
  
• It is a help to stop negative behavior.
  
  
• Need to have more activities to do.
  
  
• It’s good because you know what somebody else wants to be.
  
  
• This program was interesting and new to me.
  
  
• It was at times a challenge and I personally like challenge. It made me think about what to do, and in the process, show me how things work.
  
  
• Should come more often.
  
  
• We need programs like this to help the students and teachers with their dreams.
  
  
• It’s fun and very interesting. I like all the program.
  
  
• It was fun and educational.
  
  
• Very good.
  
  
• I had a lot of fun & found out that I can do more than what people say.
  
  
• I had fun – it was educational (was way better than math 1/2).
  
  
• Enjoyed it – had fun.
  
  
• We got to work with people we normally don’t get to.
  
  
• I liked it but I am too shy to speak and the program helped me to talk more – to be more open.
  
  
• The program was fun. I learned a lot, and I was really understanding it. It had good points.
  
  
• It gave me confidence.
  
  
• Interesting & informative, I learned a lot

What have you learned from the Career Dreams program?

• How to start pursuing a career. How to work well with people, I don’t know.
  
  
• Don’t be negative.
  
  
• Dreaming is a good thing – The more you dream, the more you can accomplish (follow your dreams) – Everyone has a talent.
  
  
• To do things if you think it is right. Do not show negative.
  
  
• Yes, I learned that when people come together they all have their own ideas.
  
  
• That everyone in a company or involved in developing a project is just as important as the next person. (Do away with negatives, & remember there are no limits!).
  
  
• That no matter how big your dream is, that it can come true.
  
  
• Be outspoken - my dreams - not be afraid.
  
  
• I learned a lot – things like respect each other, and what are our dreams.
  
  
• I have learned about career planning and ways to make dreams come true.
  
  
• There are no negatives. You can do anything with the career that you are going to get.
  
  
• I’ve learned that you can do anything you want if you just use your talents.
  
  
• There are no limits.
  
  
• That I can do anything & become anything I want.
  
  
• That nothing is impossible. If you think you can do it, than you can. Don’t let nothing or no one hold you from doing the things you love to do.
  
  
• It taught me to act on my dreams and not just talk about them – more action and less talk.
  
  
• Don’t ever be negative toward things.
  
  
• Trust everyone is different and can do different things in life.
  
  
• I can do anything if I try.
  
  
• That any dream is possible to come true and that it is a good idea for the future students.
  
  
• If your positive, it will help you get ahead of those that are negative.
  
  
• I learned that anything is possible. If you strive and work hard you can achieve your dream.
  
  
• I can do anything I want.
  
  
• That you can do anything as long as you set your mind to it.
  
  
• That dreams are true.
  
  
• You can do anything you set your mind too.
  
  
• Never use negative comments.
  
  
• How to work in a group. I learned that everyone has a dream and something they are good at.

How do you feel the Career Dreams program has helped you personally?

• It made me think about myself as a person and how to start something with a dream & turn it into reality.
  
  
  
• I will keep dreaming and accomplish something. I now know that I have a talent at something.
  
  
• By telling you to do what you want to do. They said no matter the way you look at things, follow your dreams.
  
  
• I think that in the future I will be more open to everyone’s opinion and always remember not to put out a negative attitude.
  
  
• It has helped me by not giving up in my dreams.
  
  
• It helped me decide on what I want to do in the future.
  
  
• I feel very good.
  
  
• It has helped me figure out or think about the kind of career I want to go into.
  
  
• It felt good. It was very interesting. It helped me by having no negatives.
  
  
• I feel that the program has helped me by telling me if I am good at something then continue to do it, no matter what anyone says.
  
  
• To open my mind.
  
  
• I think I will think of things I can do, not things I can’t do.
  
  
• To go after my dreams and never give up. If you like something, stick to it and work hard to achieve it.
  
  
• Gave me the motivation to start working more – what I do now effects the future.
  
  
• To feel good about things.
  
  
• It will help me in the future and with others.
  
  
• It has helped me to communicate better.
  
  
• By letting me be open.
  
  
• It helped me start thinking about my future.
  
  
• It showed me to work hard at whatever I do and to never give up.
  
  
• It helps me by letting me do what I want to.
  
  
• I can do anything I want to do even though other people don’t believe in me.
  
  
• To keep dreaming.
  
  
• Helped me or showed me not to give up.
  
  
• By making what ever I dreamed about being, to go for it and do it.
  
  
• It made me think about how I am able to accomplish anything
  

What did you like about the Career Dreams program? What would you change?

• I like the hands on learning experiences, working together to make something happen. To change this program, I would make it last all day.
  
  
• In-line skates without wheels was cool.
  
  
• I like the group activities. It was about dreaming. I would change nothing but maybe having more group activities.
  
  
• They let us work with others in a group. Nothing, I like everything we did.
  
  
• It was a new experience to me and wouldn’t mind doing this again.
  
  
• I liked the way the program was run and the speakers. I would not change anything.
  
  
• I liked the fact that it was something new to me, and that helped me.
  
  
• I like that we got into group activities. I would not change nothing. THANK YOU!
  
  
• I like all about it. I would like to change all that I have that is negative.
  
  
• I liked the group activities we did, especially the skates activity.
  
  
• Where we have to make a logo and a saying for our In-line Skates.
  
  
• I think it was a really good program – I think everyone should hear and do this program – I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• The group work.
  
  
• I love it. I would change the part where they only come here once in a while. I want them to come every year.
  
  
• It explains what you should do in life, the way I look at life. I really liked the program.
  
  
• I like the skate thing, where you decided what the company was about and how it worked. I like everything – I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• Learning to work together. Wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• It helps a lot of people and students and I would just leave it alone so we could keep it the way it is.
  
  
• Like being with my friends. Nothing.
  
  
• I really liked everything about it.
  
  
• I like when we got to create a dream school. I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• I liked everything about it. I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• How we worked as a group. I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• I liked the speaker – he taught me a lot. I wouldn’t change a thing – I enjoyed it very much.
  
  
• I don’t know.
  
  
• I would change nothing.
  
  
• I liked everything, I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• I liked how there are hands on activities

Career Dreams Educational Foundation

Evaluation

STUDENT SEMINAR
(high school students Group #2)

Loving High School

Loving, New Mexico

September 18, 2000

Evaluation of Speaker:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.3

10, 10, 10, 8, 8, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 10, 10, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 7, 9, 10, 10, 8, 10, 10, 7, 10, 9

Comments:

• I enjoyed your presentation, you need to come get us out of school more often.
  
  
• Good speaker, explained a lot of good ideas.
  
  
• Made us realize that we can expand our dreams, do anything we want to if we put ourselves in to it. Jeff, you were like one of us, you understood how we thought.
  
  
• He was very nice. He did not seem real nervous, and was free about his career. He likes what he does and seems real interested in helping students.
  
  
• Jeff was an awesome speaker. You can tell he is an intelligent man. Someone I can get along with.
  
  
• Good speaker. Interesting presentation.

• Jeff Willis was an excellent speaker!! He was very enthusiastic and motivational. He didn’t make us bored or want to fall asleep.
  
  
• He was an interesting speaker that kept my attention.
  
  
• He knows what he is talking about.
  
  
• Jeff was very interesting and full of joy. He always had a smile. Fun and funny when it came to jokes. Thank you very much for coming.
  
  
• Very enthusiastic.
  
  
• He was a good guest speaker and I thought he was great at it.
  
  
• Very interesting.
  
  
• Needs to keep the good job up.
  
  
• Everybody was interested in what Jeff was saying.
  
  
• He was always listening and liked everyone’s ideas – liked to joke around. Was very enthusiastic about everyone. Thanks Jeff!!
  
  
• I think it was a great speech. It got through to me what he was talking about. He was real funny and not boring.
  
  
• I think he was a great speaker, because he was serious, but yet humorous. JEFF IS THE BOMB!!
  
  
• He was really good.
  
  
• He really spoke good.
  
  

Evaluation of the Program:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.3

9, 10, 10, 8, 7, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 10, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 8, 7, 8, 10

Comments:

• It was great – it made a lot of people think about things people don’t normally think about.
  
  
• We were able to learn ideas.
  
  
• I think this program is excellent. It makes students realize there are no limits. It helps us work in a group and that your ideas are always important.
  
  
• I liked it a lot. I never really thought about making a business, until now. It was fun.
  
  
• This program is real good because it will inspire kids to go after their goals.
  
  
• Good idea to show people what their talents and skills are.
  
  
• It was great!! The activities were fun and interesting. We all had fun!
  
  
• It was unlike any other program.
  
  
• Helps students realize that dreams do come true.
  
  
• I think that if only the school board did actually listen to the students there would be more effort coming from the students.
  
  
• Good ideas.
  
  
• It’s a good program – just needs to be a little more interesting.
  
  
• It was something different than what we were used to.
  
  
• It really helped us think about things & use our ideas. I wasn’t scared to share anything.
  
  
• It was a great program. We got a lot of learning out of it.
  
  
• It was a great program. So you can go out and do what you really like.
  
  
• It made me think about my future

What have you learned from the Career Dreams program?

• To work harder so I can get to my dream.
  
  
• How to come up with ideas.
  
  
• How to expand your dreams & accomplish anything.
  
  
• That there are no limits to what you do and also no negativity.
  
  
• I’ll be honest. I don’t think I learned too much, but I did enjoy the program.
  
  
• If you dream, you might get where you want to go.
  
  
• The difference between my talents and skills.
  
  
• How to focus on my talents and dreams.
  
  
• To use talents you have and to think more about certain areas.
  
  
• How to believe in yourself.
  
  
• There are no limits and no negatives.
  
  
• I have learned that anything you set your mind to is possible. If I want something good to happen, I have to go out there and get it.
  
  
• Every opinion counts and can make a difference.
  
  
• I’ve learned to have more self-respect. I feel more comfortable putting in my input.
  
  
• Achieve your goals.
  
  
• To make important decisions, think big.
  
  
• I learned that there are no limits to what we could do.
  
  
• Shoot for your dreams and goals.
  
  
• There are NO LIMITS and you can do anything if you set your mind and go out and do it.
  
  
• I learned that you should go for your dreams and never back down by what somebody says.
  
  
• To get a job you like. Not a job that pays a lot, but you hate it.
  
  
• Not to give up on your career.
  
  
• About how we can be higher than we think we are.
  
  
• Do not let nothing stop you from accomplishing your dreams. Do not limit yourself and do not have any negative thoughts or ideas.
  
  
• I learned a little but not much.
  
  
• I really didn’t learn anything.
  
  
• How to work better a little better.
  
  
• What I want to do with my life.
  
  
• In some ways, yes.
  
  
• How to look at my future and to work in groups

How do you feel the Career Dreams program has helped you personally?

• It’s made me realize everything’s not a joke.
  
  
• It has helped me learn more and think more about life.
  
  
• I feel that I can narrow down what and who I want to be. I learned the job I want should make me happy.
  
  
• I like it is that it helps you think a little, not just about school, but about things in life.
  
  
• I think it will help me stay in a more positive and happy mood.
  
  
• Think about what I want to do.
  
  
• It showed me that there are no limits to thinking.
  
  
• It’s made me more confident in myself. I feel like I can, instead of thinking I can’t!
  
  
• It has enlightened me.
  
  
• Very inspiring.
  
  
• It has helped me feel like I can do anything I work for and set my mind to.
  
  
• It has inspired me to make my voice heard because I can make a difference.
  
  
• I know better what I want to do with my life.
  
  
• It hasn’t.
  
  
• Makes me think of careers.
  
  
• It tells me there’s NO LIMITS.
  
  
• It was very inspiring and fun. It has showed me to shoot for my dreams.
  
  
• Now I am willing to share my ideas, knowledge, and skills with others.
  
  
• It made me think about what I really want to become in life.
  
  
• It got me thinking about what I really want to do.
  
  
• It inspired me to go for it.
  
  
• Helped me to be more open about things.
  
  
• Helped me realize that I can do things if I go after my dreams.
  
  
• What I want to do when I get out of high school.
  
  
• It really hasn’t helped me none.
  
  
• It didn’t help me towards my dream.
  
  
• None really.
  
  
• It helped me think about the future more.
  
  
• I feel it helped a lot

What did you like about the Career Dreams program? What would you change?

• That we got to speak our minds. Nothing.
  
  
• I like the presentation – I would change the way of thinking in school.
  
  
• I liked everything; I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• NOTHING WOULD CHANGE – I would keep it the way it is. Just maybe more than a morning session, make it all day long.
  
  
• I liked the activities. I was interested the majority of the time I was here.
  
  
• It’s lot of things you could talk about.
  
  
• I really liked it, it was interesting, nothing.
  
  
• It was well organized & interesting. We all had fun. I would just like it to be longer instead of just a few hours!
  
  
• I liked the little projects we did as groups.
  
  
• I would change the class like to be more interesting and not so boring.
  
  
• It was something new and interesting. I really liked it. I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• I like what it teaches, cuz it helped me realize a lot. I would add more activities.
  
  
• I liked it all. I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• The group activities; nothing.
  
  
• It got us out of class. Make it longer.
  
  
• Pretty interesting, nothing.
  
  
• It’s good, it the same, just a little more interesting.
  
  
• It was different, nothing.
  
  
• I liked that they are concerned about using talents and they encourage you to pursue challenges.



• The speaker was great and the activities were real fun. I would not change anything.
  
  
• IT WAS ALL EXCELLENT.
  
  
• Getting us out of class. I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• About how we had a spokesperson. Have us have ideas.
  
  
• Everything, nothing.
  
  
• I like that it takes us out of class.
  
  
• The speaker was good. I would change the way you go toward your dream.
  
  
• It was fun. Nothing.
  
  
• It was fun.
  
  
• It was good the way things are done.
  
  
• Group work, I wouldn’t change nothing

Career Dreams Educational Foundation

Evaluation

STUDENT SEMINAR
(high school students Group #3)

Loving High School

Loving, New Mexico

September 18, 2000

Evaluation of Speaker:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.4

10, 9, 9, 8, 10, 9, 7, 10, 10, 9, 10, 8, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10

Comments:

• The speaker was very informative, interesting. She got her point across and was easy to understand.
  
  
• Good speaker with good speaking skills and understandable.
  
  
• She was a very good speaker.
  
  
• She always asked if we understood what she was talking about.
  
  
• Very nice and informative.
  
  
• Nice.
  
  
• Terrific speaker.
  
  
• She was able to communicate well with us.
  
  
• She was really understanding. She made her self clear and we could understand what she was talking about.
  
  
• She explained everything out very well.
  
  
• She was good fun & I thought it was neat.
  
  
• She was a good speaker.
  
  
• She was a good speaker & let us understand what was going on & what was happening.
  
  
• I think you did a good job of presenting everything
  
  
• Very articulate.
  
  
• I like the way she used the experiences of other people as well as her own into the presentation.
  
  
• She was pretty cool in our opinions.
  
  
• I thought that the speaker was very helpful and was a great idea for Loving.
  
  
• She explained everything and made it fun

Evaluation of the Program:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.1

7, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 1, 10, 10, 9, 9, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 9, 9, 8, 10, 9, 9, 10, 10

Comments:

• The program was good but I think discipline should be put to a better use. Most people didn’t take it serious.
  
  
• I missed some of the program, but for what I got to see, it was really good and informative.
  
  
• Good.
  
  
• The program is really good because it helps children to find their talents.
  
  
• To long.
  
  
• Encouraging and motivating.
  
  
• Cool.
  
  
• Terrific program.
  
  
• Very good.
  
  
• It was a good program. It gave us a chance to go create our school’s program.
  
  
• Good job.
  
  
• It was fun & neat – different.
  
  
• This was a good program.
  
  
• It was interesting.
  
  
• Time was too limited, but informative.
  
  
• The activities were fun but took a long time.
  
  
• It was kind of too long.
  
  
• Helped us communicate.
  
  
• Good program – good idea.
  
  
• It showed us how to communicate with each other.
  
  
• The program was a great idea to help out people that didn’t have a lot of self-confidence.
  
  
• It was fun and interesting

What have you learned from the Career Dreams program?

• Any goal can be achieved with effort & keeping out negative thoughts.
  
  
• Stay focused on your dreams.
  
  
• Follow my dreams.
  
  
• Communication.
  
  
• To go head on for what we have planned for ourselves.
  
  
• I have learned that you need to respect others and to go beyond my limits.
  
  
• No, I didn’t pay attention.
  
  
• I learned that it’s okay to dream & possible to achieve goals.
  
  
• I have learned how to be successful and to start thinking about my future plans.
  
  
• To follow your dreams & believe.
  
  
• To never give up on your dreams.
  
  
• Go with your dreams.
  
  
• I need to make some changes in school.
  
  
• Follow your dreams.
  
  
• To be outgoing and dream!
  
  
• Not to give up on my dreams.
  
  
• That anything is possible.
  
  
• Not to stop dreaming.
  
  
• To follow your dreams.
  
  
• What it takes to be successful.
  
  
• To follow your dream.
  
  
• Anything is possible.
  
  
• To follow my dream no matter what.
  
  
• That I have talents I didn’t know about.
  
  
• It’s to communicate.
  
  
• All of our dreams are important.
  
  
• All of our dreams are important and there are no limits and no negatives.
  

How do you feel the Career Dreams program has helped you personally?

• I think it has helped me to stay focused on school.
  
  
• Sorry, I wasn’t here long enough to answer this question.
  
  
• Helped me not to be afraid to dream.
  
  
• Yes.
  
  
• It’s just helped me out a great deal.
  
  
• It has helped me realize that I don’t have to do what others expect of me.
  
  
• It hasn’t.
  
  
• I think it has made me think about what I want in my future.
  
  
• It has helped me to work better with others.
  
  
• By letting me know to follow my dream & it will be successful.
  
  
• It helped me not to give up.
  
  
• I don’t think it has.
  
  
• Allowed me to see my dreams.
  
  
• To speak up!
  
  
• That I could do anything.
  
  
• It has helped it by doing a lot.
  
  
• It has taught me to be creative.
  
  
• I can face the dreams.
  
  
• It hasn’t.
  
  
• To seek my dreams.
  
  
• It helped me by still going to school.
  
  
• It gave me more hope for my dream.
  
  
• It has helped me to find my talents.
  
  
• To be more talkative.
  
  
• I already knew that my dreams are important but it helped out some.
  
  
• I was able to speak in front of an audience.

What did you like about the Career Dreams program? What would you change?

• I liked the idea that we could really express our thoughts about our school. Most people don’t pay attention to that. I wouldn’t change anything.
  
  
• It made me more enthusiastic about my dreams and how I pursue them.
  
  
• I liked the way the program helped me follow dreams. I don’t think I would change anything.
  
  
• Totally, it’s good the way it is.
  
  
• Liked everything and would change nothing.
  
  
• I liked pretty much all of it. I would have more demonstrations more often. For example, have two presentations a year.
  
  
• I would change everything. I didn’t like anything.
  
  
• I liked that we worked in groups to solve problems.
  
  
• Everything, nothing.
  
  
• It was very good. Would not change anything.
  
  
• It’s OK, nothing.
  
  
• All of it, it got me out of class, nothing.
  
  
• It was OK, nothing.
  
  
• It was fun.
  
  
• When we were in groups. The school.
  
  
• I like that it was fun. Nothing.
  
  
• Everything, nothing
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• I liked it all. I would make it longer.
  
  
• All of it, I would not.
  
  
• The little projects.
  
  
• I liked it all.
  
  
• I liked the yo-yo thing.
  
  
• I liked everything about it.
  
  
• I liked the group project & ideas. I wouldn’t change it, because it was very interesting.
  
  
• I was able to work as a team with other grade levels. I wouldn’t change anything. I think we need to do this more often.