Being a small town marketing firm is about more than just offering services and assistance to our local business community. We also believe in giving back to the St. Augustine community whenever and wherever possible. Recently, our interactions with our community have been focused on educating students in the area about real world career opportunities in the marketing and design industries.
Last year, we had the opportunity to partner with Pedro Menendez High School to help their digital design students learn more about the real world careers available to them in the design industry. The students designed a campaign to promote their school and invited us to join them in the classroom for a constructive evaluation of their work. We were very impressed with their designs! We also shared some copy writing advice with Menendez Yearbook students who were working on creating captions and body copy for the school’s annual book.
After such a wonderful experience with Menendez, we were thrilled when the Florida School for the Deaf & Blind here in St. Augustine asked if some of their students could visit our offices to learn more about marketing. The group of budding young designers, computer experts and marketing strategists joined us in the office on March 9th to learn more about what we do for our clients and how they can start their career path in the industry.
OCWS owner Cecile Nusbaum told the students about her experience and how important it is to keep your mind open to new ideas and opportunities. Marketing coordinator Shannon O’Neil showed the students examples of the branding work OCWS has done for clients like Jack Ward Fire, Little Looster, and the Chicago Bears. Bobby Jones, OCWS Art Director, gave the students an idea of the kind of programs, computers and other technology tools we use to create our work.
After a short presentation, the students were eager to ask questions about internships, teamwork and the reach of Old City Web Services. We provided some additional answers before taking the students on a tour of our offices.
It was a wonderful morning for us, we enjoyed it just as much as the students did. Since the meeting we have kept in touch with the students and their teachers with the hope of furthering our connection in the future.