Career Trek - A walk into your future
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- Published on Friday, March 16, 2018
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Career Trek award recipients from NACI (from left) Karl Viloria, John Allen Dionzon, Toines Ignacio, Francheska Kabigting, Alyza Sadiamona, Kate Bulusan, Ranzis Pangan, Peter Esclamado and Sziane Dequito, some of the recipients are not shown.
Jessica Morton
Neepawa Banner & Press
On Saturday, March 10, Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (NACI), grade 6 students graduated from their Career Trek Wonder of Work program at the Western 水果视频 Centennial Auditorium held in Brandon.
The program ran for several weeks from November to January. Students were able to try out 38 different occupations every Saturday throughout the several weeks of this program. Students from many communities across Western 水果视频 participated including Austin, Baldur, Birtle, Boissevain, Brandon, Carberry, Douglas, Elkhorn, Erickson, Forrest, Gladstone, Glenboro, Griswold, Hamiota, Hartney, Kenton, Killarney, MacGregor, Miniota, Minnedosa, Neepawa, Ninette, Oak Lake, Oak Rivers, Onanole, Rapid City, Reston, Rivers, Russell, Shoal Lake, Souris, Strathclair, and Virden. The Career Trek programs have been on going for 22 years. Out of the 20 NACI grade 6 students who experienced Career Trek, almost half of them came back with awards. Career Trek鈥檚 Wonder of Work program offers students a hands on learning experience with multiple occupations being explored. Some examples of the activities that the high schoolers experienced include, police work and what it鈥檚 like to go through the steps of an investigation and learning how to do surgery on a sheep鈥檚 eyeball for the veterinary section of the program. This year some of the occupations that the students experienced were Agronomist, ER Nurse, First Officer on the Scene, Forensic Officer, Veterinarian and Video Game Designer. This year there were 13 schools that participated in the Career Trek Wonder of Work Westman program and NACI won the school of the year award for the Westman region. In an interview with NACI鈥檚 Vice Principal, Val Parayeski, she stated that it was 鈥渆xcellent鈥� to win this award and added 鈥淚 think its a good program.鈥� 鈥淣ACI鈥檚, Val Parayeski, went above and beyond and got excellent people to be involved,鈥� said Judy Braun, marketing and communications coordinator for Career Trek. 鈥淪he was very dedicated and a huge advocate for Career Trek,鈥� added Braun.
