Young Professionals Conference

This annual event is a professional-style conference for high school students, complete with a keynote address, interactive workshops and a networking lunch.

The interactive workshops led by business partners are the highlight of the event. Approximately twenty workshops are run by business partners who volunteer their time to conduct dynamic and engaging sessions designed to open the students' minds to new ideas, concepts and job opportunities in their chosen fields of interest.

The 2010 Young Professionals Conference was held on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at the Universities at Shady Grove and served over 700 high school juniors from the Academies of IT, Finance, Project Lead the Way (Engineering), Biosciences, Hospitality and Tourism, Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Engineering, and Entrepreneurship.

This year's keynote address was given by Mr. John Kelly, Metro Columnist, Washington Post.

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