On Wednesday, March 20th, seventh-grade students from Northern and Southern Middle and Swan Meadow Schools attended a career exploration day at Garrett College. The students were given a menu of 11 career clusters to select their top three choices: business, agriculture, the law, healthcare, IT, energy, finance, STEM, culinary, law enforcement, and construction. In addition to exploring these careers, the students participated in a financial literacy workshop and a mock interview skit.
Garrett County Public Schools (GCPS) would like to thank the following businesses and organizations for volunteering their time and talents to make this event possible: Jodi McClintock, Pat McCormick, and Tracey Engle, Maryland Small Business Development Center; Tracey Henline, Family Court Magistrate; 1st Sergeant Bradley Williams, TFC Cody Bradley, and Lieutenant Michael Sigmund, Maryland State Police; Becky Aiken, Chuck Trautwein, and Becky Yost, GCPS; Cheryl DeBerry, Garrett County Government; Zack Burgess and Marissa Miller, Beitzel Corp; Jason Fickes, On Pointe Cuisine; Jared Jones, Truist Bank; Ron Bittinger, Chuck Olsson, and Jason VanSickle, First United Bank and Trust; and Amy Mussen, Garrett County Community Action. Additionally, we would like to thank Northern High School theatre students Alexandra Schmidt and Landon Eber for filling the roles of good interviewee and bad interviewee, GaCo Robotics students Alex Durst, Jackson Hordubay, and Sophia Rankin for giving a robot demonstration, and FFA students Conner Clary, Leah Fratz, Samara Goebel, Molly Magruder, Bryliee Miller, and Kylynn Vitez for presenting careers in agriculture/natural resources. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation to Garrett College, particularly Chantel Lowdermilk and Susan Rexroad, for helping to organize and host this event.
