First day back from Spring Break, and the 6th grade is preparing for Erin, a guest lecturer from Microsoft.  We decided that there was 4 ways to prepare:

  1. use some Microsoft products so we know what their company does
  2. use a search engine (like MSN Live) to find online information
  3. visit the Microsoft official website
  4. look up their company on a map (there are lots of offices around the world!)

Once we were finished sharing discoveries made in the above 4 ways, we did a little story telling about the origins of Microsoft and some funny stories about founders Bill Gates & Paul Allen’s days at Lakeside (a local independent high school).  We looked at how this company had transformed the Bellevue/Redmond area from sleepy farms to bustling city.  We also came to realize that companies like Microsoft are so big that you don’t have to be an expert computer programmer to work for them: Microsoft needs chefs, sales people, creative thinkers, artists, shuttle drivers and all sorts of people to make their company work smoothly.


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