George School students had the opportunity to select among sixteen different career options in workshops planned by the Parents Association, and chaired by parent John Harkins. The workshops were held on Monday, April 5, 2010 during the assembly timeslot. Most speakers were recruited from the alumni body and most speaker hosts were current parents.

Students were able to attend one workshop of their choice, and most students were assigned their first choice of a speaker. This year, the most popular careers—selected by the greatest numbers of students—were FBI counter terrorism and intelligence (81), photographer and professor (45), and entrepreneur (41). 

Workshop presenters were Kareem Afzal ’93 (mechanical engineer in renewable energy), Taylor Andrews ’64 (public interest law), Sam Ashworth ’02 (FBI in counter terrorism and intelligence), Wayne Chen ’99 (architect), Sean Corson ’89 (marine conservation management), Melicia Escobar ’96 (midwife), David Graham p’04, ’11 (photographer and professor), Art Henrie ’47 (entrepreneur), Patricia Kramon Pincus ’68 (teacher), Steve Longley p ’10 (consumer advertising and marketing), Meg Pease-Fye ’82 (federal employee in public health), Larry Presley (director of forensics at Arcadia University), Elbert St. Claire ’93 (physician), Wick Vipond ’98 (digital advertising designer), Tom Wells p ’07, '11 (builder of houses for energy efficiency), and David Wright ’00 (multi-denominational minister).

“Now I know what I want to be,” enthused one student after her career workshop. “I knew I wanted to work in the field of law and I knew I wanted to serve people. Now I know I want to be a public defender. Our workshop speaker was great!”

A teacher was fascinated to attend the workshop of her former student, Sam Ashworth, who is now an FBI agent. In his presentation, he credited the Quaker perspective he learned at George School as affecting the way he went about his work, honoring the life of every person he came in contact with in his anti-terrorist work. Other speakers mentioned their gratitude for their George School experience as one of the reasons they volunteered to come back as a career workshop speaker.