Business Seminar Trip 2007
For ten days in early March, Delphian School Business Seminar Instructor, Mark Siegel,
led the group of seventeen business seminar students and three parents on an inside-look
at businesses in Chicago, Boston and New York. In Chicago, students visited with
an investment company, toured the Northwestern School of Law, the Chicago Board
of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (including actually going on the trading
floors of both exchanges!). They attended the Broadway musical Wicked, and
visited the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
In Boston, they toured the Freedom Trail and the Holocaust Memorial, attended a
Blue Man Group performance and met with the group's Boston Manager and the Assistant
Theater manager. They spent two days visiting many parts of the Fidelity Investments
organization, meeting with professionals in many different fields and seeing first
hand how an organization of 44,000 employees runs, including its convention center
and hotel operation.
In New York, they visited the New York Stock Exchange and actually went on the floor
of the exchange to experience trading first-hand. They even dined in the Exchange
members' dining room as guests of Fidelity Investments. They visited several other
companies including Credit Suisse, the New York Board of Trade, Gentlemen's Quarterly,
Fidelity offices in New Jersey, Mitusi and Crossfield Capitol Management. They toured
the United Nations and ate in the Delegate's Dining Room.
Next the students attended Good Morning America, met Emeril Legasse (the
famous chef) and the Delphian School was mentioned by Diane Sawyer on the air at
the end of the show. Lastly, the students were able to attend three Broadway shows,
meet the cast of Hairspray and visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Student Alyssa Schneider had this to say about her experience on the trip: "The
greatest thing that I learned and observed from the Business Trip was that every
person we met absolutely loved their job. They had such a drive and purpose for
it that I'd never seen in a person before. For instance, our tour guide on the Freedom
Trail was SO passionate about his job that it was incredible. This opened my eyes
to see that there are other career opportunities that I could love just as they
do. One of the major points that was stressed to us, as teens getting ready to go
out into the business field, was what it meant to be professional. Every place strived
for professionalism and that was why they were all very successful. I am now going
to use this data in everything I do. Being on this trip was one of the best experiences
of my life!"