Career Cluster Choices Presented during Career Day
Post date: Mar 01, 2012 11:31:6 PM
Rapid City Journal copy editor Kerri Huckins, front left, and Meade County Times Tribune reporter Amanda Friar discuss with seniors Hannah Aker and Trent Opstedahl the educational requirements for becoming a journalist.
Seniors Owen Christensen and Colton Paradise talk about gunsmithing with Irv Stone, right, owner of the firearms manufacturer Bar-Sto.
Forest Service
Learning about careers with the U.S. Forest Service
are juniors Erica Porter, Breanne Kuehler and Heidi Haivala
who are talking to Forest Service Law Enforcement Officers
TJ Friend, foreground, and Travis Lunders.
MCTT
News Release
March 1, 2012
For further information, contact:
Kris Hubbard at 347-2523
The fifth annual Sturgis Brown High School Career Fair was held last week with approximately 110 people representing 80 business, industry, military and post-secondary institutions in attendance to answer questions from students and share information about their professions.
Approximately 650 students, which included 60 from Newell High School, had an opportunity to explore career opportunities with representatives of the following career clusters: agriculture, architecture and construction; arts and communication; business management and marketing; information technology; law, public safety, corrections and security; manufacturing; science, technology, engineering and math; transportation; education; government; hospitality; health science; human services; and military.
The Career Fair was organized by Coleen Keffeler, career and technical education coordinator at the high school, a host of high school staff members, and Career Fair Advisory Committee members Roxy Chowen, Sturgis Center for the Arts; Alenda Derby, Sturgis Regional Hospital; Lee Erickson, Natural Resources Conservation Service; Darrel Hatzenbuhler, Sturgis Police Department; JoAnn Jackley, community member and retired SBHS instructor; Denise LaRue, First Interstate Bank; Ken Meirose, Black Hills Power; Cheryl Rieniets, VA Black Hills Health Care; Boyce Voorhees, Wells Fargo Bank; Lisa Weyer, Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce; and SBHS counselors Dadra Avery and Michelle Lammers.
Businesses interested in participating in the Career Fair next year should contact Keffeler at 347-2686.
T&M
Marla Blotsky of T&M Photographic Studio was one of more than 100 area business and industry professionals participating in the recent Career Fair at Sturgis Brown High School. Also pictured is junior Shandell Clutter.
Breathalizer:
Fourth Circuit Court Services Officer Barry Coacher, seated, administers a portable breath test to sophomore Tom Mraz.
Coacher and Court Service Officer Jayna Frederickson, standing, talked to students about their work as probation officers and demonstrated some of the tools they use in the field.
Bar-Sto:
