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Career Awareness Program

The CAP concentrated on enhancing its program through a combination of efforts:

[[bullet point]] Ten participants in the core program spent the first two months of the semester studying a new museum-based curriculum designed to replace the regular seven-week session.

[[bullet point]] An award was established to honor one student from each CAP session for outstanding achievement.

[[bullet point]] CAP sponsored fifty-six participants in the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program. The participants, who ranged in age from fifteen to twenty-one, were placed as museum aides in over twenty-five offices, bureaus, and museums.

[[bullet point]] A relational database was created to maintain specific information on program graduates as to career and academic interests.

[[bullet point]] Volunteers increased from one to thirteen for a total contribution of two hundred and eight hours a month. Volunteers provide career and academic counseling, produce the program newsletter, set up and maintain program archives, and input data into the database.

[[bullet point]] Program staff participated as presenters and/or exhibitors at the American Association of Museums 1987 Annual Meeting, the African American Museums Association Ninth Annual Meeting and Workshops, and the National Black Family Celebration.

[[bullet point]] A pilot program to train and employ several minority high school students as junior interpreters of Smithsonian exhibitions was initiated in collaboration with the National Museum of American History's Department of Public Programs.