GLOW With Your Hands launched in September 2019 with 35 vendors who engaged with 500 students. This program has grown annually and this year connected 70 plus vendors with 1,100 students. GLOW With Your Hand occurs annually on the fourth Tuesday in September. This experiential career awareness and exploration event connects businesses from the Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, and Wyoming County area (GLOW) with students and educators from 31 school GLOW districts. Employers showcase in-demand careers in Agriculture, Food Production, Manufacturing, and Skilled Trades. The incredible hands on engagement has students laying bricks, welding, driving heavy equipment, learning the vast technological advancements in agriculture, operating CNC machining equpiment used in advanced manufacturing, and more. Also on hand are post-secondary institutions, unions, and training programs that prepare students for these careers. Professionals with all of these organization have meaningful conversations with students about what a day in the life looks like, careers within their companies, job outlooks, income potential, and the variety of pathways into these careers.  Students learned about the direct relevance of their course work in middle and high school (what classes they should be taking), BOCES programming that aligns with career development, and post-secondary training, certifications, and/or degrees that are needed to work in these fields.

The videos above provide a vivid illustration of the event.