Several years ago, I (Charlie McKinney) took a 10-year-old Little Heroes Baseball player to my office. He'd never been to an office building and didn't really know what it was. He concluded that it was a shopping mall, but for businesses. Made total sense. Bottom line is that many fortunate kids have opportunities to understand at an early age what "going to work" means. They attend "take your daughter to work" or "take your son to work" days with their moms and dads.
So many of the kids that Heroes touches do NOT have this opportunity to see firsthand what it means to be a lawyer, doctor, accountant, advertising, artist, finance guy, sports management, etc.
FUTURE HEROES will change that for a few kids.
Here's how it works: Four to five kids come to an office and shadow a professional from 9 am to 11 am. They get a firsthand description of how that particular professional landed on that career path. In the afternoon, the group is given a task related to that career. Upon completion, each child receives a Future Heroes certificate.
