Mirroring Their Hosts, Career Day Visitors Learn by Doing

Published 05.19.2014

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    After learning about construction materials, students from Milton Area Middle School explore Penn College student projects.Michael K. Patterson, welding lecturer, talks about his career path from a high school student who attended a Career Day to a National Science Foundation welder in Antarctica to a metalwork artist and entrepreneur.Students apply mortar to fabricated stone in the Construction Masonry Building.Students use operating-room tools in surgical technology.Students practice game programming with Microsoft Kodu.More than 900 middle schoolers and their chaperones visited main campus Monday, attending faculty-led sessions in many Penn College majors, all to give them a taste of career options. The event, which attracted eight school districts, was coordinated by the college’s Outreach for K-12 Office.

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