Onalaska hosts Career on Wheels event to expose students to potential jobs
Mar. 20—Onalaska High School hosted its first Career on Wheels event on Friday, March 15.
The event, planned and hosted by the school's counseling department, provided students with four 20-minute sessions with professionals who don't work at desks.
"Our goal is to help expose our students to careers that aren't your typical in-a-building job," school counselor Heather Jacoby wrote before the event, which The Chronicle participated in.
"Students were able to get first-hand information from the professionals themselves," the school wrote on Facebook after the event. "At some stations, they were able to get hands-on experience with guidance from the professionals. This event fostered exposure to post-secondary pathways and making direct connections with various professionals within our community. We would like to extend our gratitude to all those who helped our students gain insight into post-secondary pathways that are not always talked about.
Among the participants were Tacoma Power, the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, Lewis County-based fire and ambulance responders, the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery, Les Schwab, the U.S. Army National Guard, KELA/KMNT, the Washington State Patrol, Gordon Timber Falling, the Centralia Police Department, the Department of Natural Resources, The Chronicle, the Lewis County Public Utility District, Reed Construction and Hampton Lumber.
The school is planning to make Career on Wheels an annual event.
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