Apex Middle held Career Day for 8th grade on February 23.
We were fortunate to have the support of qualified and supportive community members. Jon Scott from Capitol Coffee Systems provided the coffee for the presenters and staff and spoke to the students about running your own business in the career cluster of Marketing. Ivan Hankins from US Small Business Association spoke about government loans for small businesses and how to start a business in the career cluster of Finance and Government. The State Employees Credit Union was represented by two loan officers that spoke about the career cluster of banking, credit and loans.
Apex Fire and Police were represented by three firemen, our campus security Officer Mellenberger and a partner for the career cluster of Law and Protective services. Mark Potter from the Smith Group spoke to his groups about a career in architecture and related areas. Tom Settle from Cisco Systems demonstrated how robotics applies to many different careers in the cluster of information technology. J D Morning from Macaroni Grill, represented the Hospitality and Tourism career cluster by explaining the importance of education in math and business to effectively run a restaurant in addition to be able to communicate with the public and your employees. Dr. Amy Wrenn and her husband took their day off to talk to our students with a power point about Veterinarian medicine. She is a vet at Chatham Animal Hospital and he works at the NC State Vet School and the NC State Zoo in Asheboro. They represented the career cluster of Health Science.
Pam Gwynn from Underwriters’ Laboratories represented engineering and scientific research careers with demonstrations of what she does at her job. Elaina Edwards and Susan Seelbach came from American Airlines Reservation Center to talk about the career cluster of transportation. Renee Anderson works with the Halle Cultural Art Center in Apex and spoke about the career cluster of Art and the Arts as a life long interest and pursuit. Mr. Coutant, Mr. Schaffer and another engineer from Progress Energy spoke to their groups about the many engineering career paths and the importance of applying math and science classes as well as reading and writing skills to be successful in a career. AMS’s own David Cook, currently a seventh grade science teacher working on his Master’s degree online in education at ECU, spoke to the students interested in teaching as their career path.
Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Farina, Business and Technology teachers assisted in advertising on the AMS web, produced the displays and signage generated by their students to assist the rotations on the day of the event, and put the evaluation form online for the students and teachers after the event. The 8th grade teachers assisted in having the students choose their career cluster interests, assisted the speakers in their classrooms, and had the students evaluate the event online.
Thanks to Principal Camille Hedrick for sharing her story with GotNews