Carl the Career Bear

Carl allows even our youngest students to experience excitement about future careers. Through his book, videos, and meet and greets, students are able to share in the fun and gain exposure to a variety of jobs.

Carl the Career Bear is available to Elementary schools in the North Central PA region. Together, Carl and our BEP Project Coordinator, facilitate career exploration with your students. Our Project Coordinator will start with a reading of Carl’s storybook, Carl the Career Bear. In this story, we follow Carl through video clips of various career opportunities he has filmed throughout our region. Students can even dress Carl in his work uniforms.

Carl the Career Bear also comes LIFE size. Primarily used for recruitment and promotion of career related events, Carl can travel to your school/business/event to get students excited about career exploration.

To request Carl, call or email Colleen Prechtl, Project Manager, at 814-594-0134 or cprechtl@ncwdb.org. Requests should include: Which Carl you want, a description of the event, date, time and location of event. Please indicate if you are able to provide an adult helper to accompany Carl during the event or if a staff/volunteer is needed.

We will review your request based on the availability of Carl (and staff) as well as how the event relates to workforce, careers, etc.