A One-of-a-Kind Career Day at Situation

Eighty graduating students from M.S. 343 joined a group of industry experts at Situation Interactive’s agency office for “Before You Go”—the ultimate career day. As the first graduating class to participate in the Situation Project, the students took mini workshops in video, photography, and improvisation, and participated in a panel discussion led by a group of creatives who spoke about their experiences working in the industry to prepare for graduation.

MS343 principal Vincent Gassetto says the effect of the program was profound. The students are becoming comfortable being in a theater and being part of a theater audience—an experience that, just a few years ago, was foreign. “When some of these kids first come in, they don’t even know how to use a ticket,” says Gassetto. Despite going to school just a few subway stops from Times Square, some don’t know where ‘Broadway’ is. “Now, if they don’t get their playbill, they’ll go up to an usher and ask for it.”

“At first they thought, ‘I don’t fit in here.’ Now they don’t think about it. They belong." Read more here.