9/19/25: Find out all you can about being a Physical Therapist from Julia Gray! Sign up using this link.

9/17/25: Interested in becoming a firefighter? Sign up using this link. 

9/3/25:  Local realtor and WEGO alum, Jenaro Terrazas, will speak about what it takes to be a realtor. Here is the sign up link.

9/5/24: Tom Fantauzzo, owner of Sheridan's Barber Shop in Wheaton (and a barber himself!), spoke to students who are interested in a career in this field or wanted to learn more about business ownership. Please watch this promotional video. 

10/22/24: Mike Mashal, VP of Operations for Trine Construction Corp visited WeGo. Trine is one of the top companies in the Northern IL area for underground utilities, water main, sanitary sewer, and stormwater management systems within municipal & residential areas.  They provide multiple avenues for different careers within their own company including Union Apprenticeships to get you started in the right direction. Over the decades, Trine Construction has completed a variety of projects ranging from residential rehabilitation to underground utility and sanitary sewer construction, for a variety of clients in the Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan areas.  You can see many of their projects here.

11/13/24: Presentation from Paula Waterman from DuPage County Work-based Learning Consortium about PAID IT Internships for summer and the 25-26 school year.

11/21/24: David Sanchez from Pregis, a packaging solutions company in Carol Stream, shared his story.  With 24+ North American facilities, additional manufacturing operations across Europe and an expanded international presence, Pregis has become a top global packaging company.

1/16/25: Efrain Aguilar is a WEGO Alumni who is Co-Founder and CEO of a business growth solutions company called ARSITION.  Artsition assists businesses with services like website design, media content creation, graphic design production and search engine optimization.

2/20/25: Matthew Klabunde is a General Manager at RES Restaurant Equipment Service Group and he shared information and talked about how you can have a career with RES. RES services restaurants across the entire United States.  They are a one-stop shop for cooking, refrigeration, ware-washing, HVAC, beverage & ice machine maintenance & repair. Restaurants are ALWAYS going to part of our society so RES will ALWAYS have work!

3/31/25: Jose Gutierrez Jr. started his own landscaping business while in high school.  From there he has completed his undergraduate degree and his master's degree. Jose now works for a top tier private trading firm in Chicago called Jump Trading.