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		<title>MICROSOFT TOUR</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 7, 2011
“This tour changed my mind about a career in technology&#8230;I think it would be fun to work here,” said a student after a tour of the Microsoft Technology Center. Other students had already decided they would like to pursue a career in technology and were excited to see the servers, the display room, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KENDALL PRESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 3, 2011
Students learned about the “ins and outs” of the commercial printing business on a recent tour of Kendall Press. They were excited to meet the graphics design team and appreciated their career advice. “I love graphic design,” explained a student, who is now researching graphic design programs for college. Students also liked the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUN LIFE FINANCIAL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 2, 2011
Students heard from a wide-ranging group of employees during a panel discussion at Sun Life Financial. “The best part was having the different workers talk to us and answer our questions,” noted a student. They also appreciated how the Sun Life team explained some complicated financial topics in easy-to-understand terms. The visit inspired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOURMET CATERERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 1, 2011
“Inspiring” was the unanimous assessment of the visit to Gourmet Caterers.        The people at Gourmet shared personal stories with the students which really hit home. As one student noted, “I love that their stories showed me that our surroundings don’t determine our lives.” Another wrote, “What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOVARTIS TOUR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 24, 2011
Making connections with their current academic studies and the business world is a crucial part of the STEP experience for students. On a recent trip to Novartis, an international pharmaceutical company, students with an interest in careers in health sciences and biology learned about the stages of drug development from early research and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARCHSTONE NORTH POINT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 14, 2011
Students heard about the importance of having a close and multi-faceted team in business during a tour of Archstone, an apartment management company with locations throughout the U.S.  Students visited Archstone’s North Point building in Cambridge recently and learned a great deal about the hospitality and facilities management field. “I enjoyed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is good was great.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEP was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the Life is good breakfast with guest speaker, Chief Executive Optimist, Bert Jacobs.  Jacobs is a much sought-after speaker whose lessons on branding, leadership and corporate social responsibility are applicable to organizations of all sizes.  Steven Gross, Executive Director of Life is good Kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER TOUR</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/11/02/boston-medical-center-tour-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 25, 2011
Everyone knows that people go the the hospital for medical care, but to our students’ great surprise, Boston Medical Center has a food pantry and cooking classes! But BMC’s mission as an inner city hospital is to treat the whole person, so maybe they shouldn’t have been so surprised after all. Our students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STATE STREET TOUR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 25, 2011
Thanks to the great team at State Street Global Advisors, our students learned that it takes many different skills and talents to bring products to market, especially complex financial products. One student was particularly interested to know that graphic design plays a very important role in explaining financial products to clients. Other students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GREATER BOSTON REAL ESTATE BOARD TOUR</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/11/02/greater-boston-real-estate-board-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 28, 2011
Students left the Greater Boston Real Estate Board Tour with a new appreciation for our historic city and the importance of being sensitive to both old and new architecture. Students were especially interested in hearing about how the Back Bay was created in the 1800’s by bringing in landfill, a fact that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Cupcakes Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/10/27/johnny-cupcakes-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 6, 2011
“Marketing and incentives = AP Microeconomics,” a student commented about the most recent visit to Johnny Cupcakes. Not quite the takeaway you would expect after a visit to the company famous for turning traditional business practices upside down. Students loved hearing about how a simple joke about cupcakes turned into a multi-million dollar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amory Architects Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/10/27/amory-architects-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 13, 2011
Amory Architects create beautiful spaces for their clients to work, play, reflect, and live in. Amory’s employees listen to their clients’ needs and wishes and then design solutions, all within certain parameters such as the site, the climate, the people who will be using the space, and of course, the budget. At a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essential Design Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/10/27/essential-design-tour-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 5, 2011
Visits to Essential Design are high on the must-go list for STEP students. At Essential, students are introduced to researchers, designers and engineers whose clients include some of the most prestigious, innovative companies and institutions in the world. Students are impressed that these busy, in-demand people are willing to spend time with them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Food Good Wine Good Tunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOCUS Gallery was buzzing Thursday night as STEP hosted an evening with music, martini luge, wine and creative eats.  The event was sold out &#8211; the STEP team was inspired by the generosity of the guests attending and broke through their fundraising goal for the evening!
All the people in the room truly embraced the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuum Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/10/25/continuum-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, October 12, 2011
How many people even know that a company like Continuum exists? But then, how many people think about who designed the office chair they are sitting in, or the packaging for their toothbrush, or the new common spaces at a worldwide hotel chain? Continuum does all that and more. STEP students have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomingdale’s Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Challenging yourself to introduce yourself to a complete stranger and then engaging in conversation can be a bit intimidating, even for an adult. At Bloomingdale’s on a recent tour, students did just that and not only learned that they could do it, but it that it could be fun! The Bloomingdale’s tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tedeschi’s Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, October 17, 2011
Introducing students to Critical Thinking in a business environment is a hallmark of the STEP program. At Tedeschi’s, students worked in teams to develop a plan for a new convenience store. They thought about ways to build stores that would attract their peers. One student remarked, “I learned that to have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Support STEP on October 13th</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/08/11/come-support-step-on-october-13th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come and support STEP on October 13th
                               at
             Focus Gallery, Cohasset
 Good Food, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring STEP&#8217;s Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since its inception in 2009, the mission of STEP has been to introduce students to a multitude of career opportunities, helping inner city students identify the relevance of continuing their education and to engage Corporate Partners in the process of providing students access to real world work environments.
During the 2010-2011 school year 86 students from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STEP Celebrates Successful 3rd Year at O’Bryant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students, staff, representatives of the business community and the STEP team gathered Thursday to celebrate STEP’s 2nd annual graduation. Seniors Christina Perry, Aldwayne Demontegnac and Justin Crespo-Ortiz spoke eloquently about their experiences with STEP and introduced some of the corporate partners who have worked with STEP and the O’Bryant students this year. David Hoffman, Community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/05/31/164/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 16:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the staff at MIT the STEP left this tour truly understanding that working at MIT is  a continual collaboration of work , study and creativity.  They left full of praise about the time spent with the MIT team&#8230;wonderful stories about student pranks, knowledge on the architecture,  and all were intrigued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Medical Center Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/05/26/boston-medical-center-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 00:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Medical Center (BMC) once again gave the STEP students a fascinating look into the variety of operations and people that make up a world class medical facility like BMC.   The STEP students on the tour, whom are all interested in medical careers, were completely taken in by the visit.   As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essential Design Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/04/28/essential-design-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Once again our STEP students had a fantastic journey through the world of Essential Design and this industry&#8217;s implications in their developing lives.   Our students were immediately drawn in by engaging conversation with the Essential Design staff, all directed towards their particular interests and paths thus allowing them the comfort level to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston College Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/04/18/boston-college-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s tour was just perfect. From the moment we met the Boston College team to the time we tumbled back on the bus the students were intrigued by all that they saw and learnt at BC.  The questions never stopped and on the way back to the school the seniors were planning how they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archstone Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who wants to work in a place with deadly fan turbines, an indoor pool and fitness center, in-house theater and community space, posh views of the Charles River, and a co-workers that are treated like family?  I do, and after the tour of Archstone North Point I think that some students from John D. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stebs Schinnerer of Paper Fortress film company at O&#8217;Bryant High School</title>
		<link>http://www.stepinspire.org/stories/2011/04/03/stebs-schinnerer-of-paper-fortress-film-company-at-obryant-high-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huge thank you to Stebs Schinnerer of Paper Fortress film company for coming to the O&#8217;Bryant High School to teach students Final Cut Pro Editing program.  The Paper Fortress team dedicated its time to the teachings and inspired the students by exposing them to new career opportunities within the film industry For ore information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is nothing better than witnessing success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the O’Bryant Class of 2010 returned to the school yesterday to speak to current students about life at college, the highs and lows of the application process and who to reach out to for help and assistance once they are there.
Amongst this group of confident, caring and successful individuals were several members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Intern&#8217;s perspective on STEP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brianna Perkins, spring 2011 intern Kendall Press
Kendall Press Blog:  Step Inspire
Step Inspire is a corporation that guides urban students towards a path to success. They allow students to get a preview of what their future would be like; by allowing them opportunities to visit potential future jobs of their interest. Fortunately, they had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celtics!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone at STEP is so appreciative of the time and effort the team at the Celtics&#8217; office put into our first Celtic&#8217;s STEP tour on Thursday, March 31st.  Walking into the impressive front office certainly set the tone for a fun filled afternoon, where the magic of sports and its celebrity players grabbed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Essential?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was able to join the students for a tour of Essential Design, a research, engineering and design firm. The office was inspiring – full of various medical devices; sports equipment, kitchenware and sound systems that the firm has created from start to finish. Their hall of fame products, along with their wall [...]]]></description>
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