Harrisburg, PA - The Partnership of Packer, Oesterling and Smith (PPO&S) was recognized with a Silver Education Advertising Award for logo and letterhead design on behalf of their client, Pathways for Career Success.

 

Celebrating its 26^th year, the Educational Advertising Awards is the largest educational advertising awards competition in the country. More than 1,000 colleges, universities and secondary schools from all 50 states and several foreign countries submitted more than 2,500 entries. Entries were judged by a national panel of higher education marketers, advertising creative directors, marketing and advertising professionals, and the editorial board of Higher Education Marketing Report, the award's sponsor.

 

Pathways for Career Success is an innovative program where business and education form a strong partnership to create secondary/post-secondary career opportunities in emerging high-skill, high-tech, high-wage industries. www.pathwaysforcareersuccess.com

 

PPO&S is a member of the American Association of Advertising Agencies and an associate agency of Hill & Knowlton, a leading international communications consultancy.

 

The agency's integrated marketing communications capabilities include communication planning, research, strategic marketing planning, copywriting, design and production of advertising, collateral and promotional materials, social marketing, event planning and promotion, public relations and crisis communications, as well as media planning, buying  and evaluation.

Dr. Carol Adukaitis and Mr. Luis Garcia, both of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, (PASSHE) will present at the nineteenth annual conference on Integrated Learning:  The School-to-Career Connection Conference being held at the Penn Stater Conference Center, State College, PA, November 8 – 10, 2010.

 

The Conference is designed to share successful strategies that encourage the implementation of educational initiatives that enhance learning opportunities for all students.  These initiatives focus on interdisciplinary approaches that include the identification of effective practices, system building, business linkages, partnerships, school-to-career connections and instructional strategies for lifelong learning.  The title of their presentation is “Strategies for Recruiting Underrepresented Students to Emerging and High Priority Occupations”.