Group seeking reverse job fair participants
BUSINESS PEOPLE CAN HELP high school students learn career strategies at a reverse job fair Thursday.
About 80 Valley area high school students will be on hand from 10:30 a.m. to noon to talk to visitors from different industries during the fair at Valley Hospital, in the Health and Education Center. The students are from University, Central Valley, East Valley, West Valley and Freeman high schools.
“Our goal is to encourage about 50 business people to walk through and talk to the students about their career goals and offer them advice,” said Leah Lucero, a careers teacher at EV.
“We’re not necessarily looking for people who have job openings, just people who can come and offer advice and their knowledge about business or a workplace. We have kids interested in automotive, medical and other industries that we are trying to bring in.”
Representatives from the Valley school districts also are asking people to review students’ resumes and perhaps go through an informal interviewing process to give students practice time.
“It’s a free event, just an open house,” Lucero added. “You can come through on your own time schedule. We ask that you talk to at least three students, and we try to match you with students who might be interested in your work. It might take 20, 30 minutes.”
People who are available to do informal interviewing sessions with students can fill out evaluation forms on whether students had good eye contact and good verbal skills. “It allows students to work on their interviewing skills,” Lucero said.
The fair was coordinated by the Valley school districts to help students transition from high school to the work force. For more information, call Lucero at 927-3200 or Morgan Jones at 228-5505.
U-Hi choir sings at Safeco Field
A University High School choir has experienced a new height in entertaining: A ballpark-sized audience. The U-Hi Chanteuse Women’s Choir kicked off the Seattle Mariners versus New York Yankees game Wednesday by singing the National Anthem to an expected crowd of more than 46,000 at Safeco Field.
The choir was selected to represent high school singers in the eastern part of the state by the Mariners, based on an audition CD submitted by the choir director, Russell Seaton.
Center honors CV students
Several Central Valley School District students were recently recognized for honors through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
The center has a talent search model that looks for exceptional mathematical and verbal reasoning abilities among seventh- and eighth-graders. The search invites students who have scored at or above the 97th percentile on nationally standardized achievement/aptitude tests to take the SAT 1 Reasoning Test.
Forty-three students from CVSD who achieved the Johns Hopkins honors were invited to an April 26 awards ceremony at Bowdish Middle School. Fifteen students who demonstrated exceptional ability in one or both areas were also invited to attend the regional award ceremony held at Eastern Washington University last Saturday.
The list of students includes:
Greenacres Middle School: Jacob Amini, Taelor Biotti, Brittany Cook, Brayana Coryell, Nathaniel Coulson, Cody Crossley, Brayden Crump, Trevor Hammons, Philip Keeve, Leslie Krueger, Bryanna Merrill, Jacob Miller, Keegan Shea, Kyle Siddoway, Lingbo Tong and Jake Wilson.
Bowdish Middle School: Amy Bestick, Eric Burford, Wesley Calhoun, Scott Ducar, Lauren Van and Madison Wiberg.
Horizon Middle School: Mackevin Fey, Brian Moore, Jacob Olsufka, Cassandra Partridge, Courtney Ramsey, April Reed, Tony Tabish and Kaelee Toth.
North Pines Middle School: Travis Chulos, Mason Day, Rachelle Parsloe, Mary Wakeling and Jaelyn Ward.
Evergreen Middle School: Cameron Allen, Mitchell Dumais, Michael Lucas, Jared Mola, Cameron Nemeth, Ashley Renz, Kaitlin Ronngren, Amanda Savage, Ryan Seacrist and Melissa Seely.
Summit School: Kendra Brown, Kyle Brown, Zachary Fitting, Joshua Villars and Helen Yuan.
Titans to compete in national debate
University High School has 10 students who will be competing in a national debate tournament in Philadelphia beginning June 12. They are Brandon Montang, Justin Kjolseth, Chris Jackson, Matt Holmes, MaryAnn Almeida, Ashley McGowan, Beth Niggemyer, Ashley Warner, Patty Karle and Laura Drews.