Senior Exhibition

What is the Senior Exhibition?

Senior Exhibition is the culminating activity in the Career Pathways/Service Learning course and a GMCHS requirement for graduation. It is an opportunity for students to review and share their growth and experiences over their two years in Middle College, in particular in relation to their internship experiences. While at first it may seem daunting, every senior has commented afterwards that it was a valuable and rewarding experience, a worthy capstone for those who accepted the challenge to cross the bridge to college and career ahead of their peers.

Who Is Involved?

All Middle College students will make a presentation.

Panels hearing presentations will include at least:

• a Middle College instructor
• a GUHSD district employee such as a district official, trustee or comprehensive high school teacher or counselor or a Grossmont College employee such as a counselor or administrator
• a member of the community such as an Internship Supervisor, a student or parent, or a former high school or college employee, student or parent

When are Senior Exhibitions?

Presentations will be made at the end of the Senior year in June. Click here to download the Outline Form to begin planning your Senior Exhibition.

What Will I Need to Do?

• Create a Career Pathways Binder. Be sure to include your Planners and your Service Learning Enrollment and Documentation forms and your Reflections for each semester in order, first to last.
• Update your Personal Statement, Photo Pages, and Resume. They should be revised, dated and neatly typed or written in ink.
• Be sure to include a Letter of Recommendation from a Career Pathways Internship supervisor or an employer.
• Provide any additional interesting evidence of your experience. Photos are a great way to connect your audience to your experiences. Powerpoint presentations, videos, demo CDs or tapes, or additional binders providing evidence of your experiences are other good ways to communicate with your audience.
• Prepare a ten-fifteen minute presentation that showcases your GMCHS experience. (View the Presentation Guide for more ideas.) You don’t have to memorize it, but DON’T read from a prepared speech! BOORRING! You may have a few discreet note cards or you may choose to follow a visual outline on your backboard or PowerPoint. Do plan out what you will say!
• Practice, practice, practice! (You will have opportunities to practice in class.) View the Public Speaking Do's and Don'ts page for some tips.
  Dress professionally, be on time, and smile! This is your opportunity to shine!

Where Will I Go?

Unless otherwise directed, you will go to our classroom, Room 692E. Please wait outside until you are called.

How Will I Be Evaluated?

Panel members will use the Senior Exhibition Evaluation Form. They are eager for you to be successful, so don’t let worries get in the way of this special day. Enjoy your walk through your high school memories with some wonderful people who are happy to give their time to complete your Middle College and Career Pathways experience.

Why Do the Senior Exhibition?

The importance of communicating effectively cannot be over-emphasized. It may be one of the most significant skills you will use in your life after high school, so it is very appropriate that there be an evaluation of your ability. At work and in your personal life it will be important to be able to research a topic, develop support, engage an audience, and provide a clear and interesting presentation, in a professional manner. You build confidence in making presentations through experience.

Senior Exhibition also provides you with an opportunity to reflect on your Middle College experience and share it with others in our community.

So, the Senior Exhibition reflects the knowledge and skills you have developed through your many experiences during the past two years and provides you with a platform to reflect and share what you have learned during this very important time.