“Take Your Kids to Work Day” Provides Auxiliary Staff!
Democracy in Action: Helping AWMA prepare briefing packages for our annual Day on the Hill program are (from left) Siobhan Fay, Miles Bolin, and Max Ramminger.
Held the fourth Thursday of April, Take Your Kids to Work Day is fast becoming a tradition here at AWMA headquarters and the timing could not be better. AWMA’s Day on the Hill is held in early May and we rely on these youthful staffers to copy, collate, staple and stuff the Day on the Hill folders! This year’s group was especially talented and completed their assignments in record time – leaving plenty of time to familiarize themselves with AWMA’s fascinating office equipment, such as the Selectric typewriter, copiers, shredders and postal machines.
Boning up on the issues for AWMA’s May 7-8 Day on the Hill are Siobhan, Miles and Max – our “auxiliary government relations team!”
Originally begun as “Take Our Daughters to Work” by MS Magazine in the 1980s, this popular one-day event rapidly evolved into “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” and “Take Your Kids to Work Day” is designed to show kids opportunities that they would have otherwise never known existed. The program is also geared to increasing kids’ interest in education by broadening their thinking about their goals and aspirations. By sticking to a national date – the fourth Thursday in April – communities and schools and businesses can plan ahead and work together to create a dynamic interaction between the workplace and the classroom.
The program is generally recommended for kids ages eight to eighteen, reports www.daughtersandsonstowork.org, but organizations set their own age parameters. Here in Washington, DC, for example, the U.S. Department of State recommends that students who are fourth graders and above participate in their full day program.
