The future workforce: HIS students participate in Career Day
Published 4:33 pm Friday, January 20, 2017
Nurse Anesthetist Kyle Vanderford describes to students the importance of his job and why he enjoys what he does.
FBI Special Agent Melissa and Cordell Spears let students try on their FBI vest.
FBI Special Agent Melissa Spears lets a student try on her FBI jacket.
Custom car builder Scott Meinberg from Performance Car Craft tells students why he loves building custom cars.
Labor and delivery nurse Angie McCrackin answers quations from the class.
Teacher and football coach from Mountain Brook High School Tony Johnson explains a little to the students about what you need to be a good coach.
Exercise Instructor Efe Dangerfield leads the students in an aerobic exercise that helps keep your body fit and healthy.
Engineering Manager at Mecedes Kosia Chingas shows students a little of the work that goes into developing a new car design long before the first car ever hits the assembly line.
CVS pharmacist Jennifer Holderfield hands out Target bags with $5 off coupons on flu shots.
With 20 years of experience, makeup artist Melissa Bogardus tells students her first celebrity client was Donald Trump for the Miss America pageant.
With 20 years of experience, makeup artist Melissa Bogardus tells students her first celebrity client was Donald Trump for the Miss America pageant.
Alabama Power lineman Matthew Williams gives students instructions about safety with powerlines.
Police officer Phillip Richards answers quations about how you properly train a police dog.
Police officer Phillip Richards answers quations about the life of a cop.
Connie Skellie, singer and musician from the band Act of Congress gets a group picture taken with Mrs Parker's 5th grade class.
Connie Skellie, singer and musician from the band Act of Congress gives the students a brief demonstration of her musical skills.
Nurse Montray Smith from Brookwood Medical Center talks to the 5th grade students about the various careers in nursing.
Military vet William Moore tells students about his career in the military and how it prepared him for life after the military.
By GRAHAM BROOKS / Staff Writer
HELENA–Comments of “Ew” and “Wow” could be heard from Helena Intermediate School students on Friday, Jan. 20, as veterinarian Brandt Tolbert showed an X-ray of a snake that had swallowed a squirrel.
Tolbert was just one of several career professionals who spent the majority of the day at Helena Intermediate speaking to third, fourth and fifth graders for Career Day.
HIS students got to see a glimpse into the future and see the variety of jobs available out in the workforce.
Tolbert is a veterinarian at Caldwell Mill Animal Clinic where he works with dogs and cats and has visited HIS a number of times for career day.
Tolbert showed other X-ray pictures that included a dog that accidentally swallowed a spoon, a dog that accidentally swallowed a rubber ball and more.
Many students had questions with the most popular being “Were they ok?”
Tolbert actually helped get the animals back to health and responded by saying “yes, but in some cases surgery was required.”
Tolbert enjoys the interaction with the students and said his favorite part about Career Day is “seeing the students’ faces light up and just seeing how excited they get.”
Other professionals on hand at Career Day included an electrician, an exercise instructor, an orthodontist, a firefighter, a police officer, FBI agents, an architect, an anesthesiologist, a makeup artist, a pharmacist, an engineer, a coach, a home organizer and more.
Electrician Jack Roberts had an interactive display in which he helped classes learn about circuits, switches, connections and safety around electricity.
Roberts is now retired and owned his own company for a number of years and now enjoys teaching younger generations about his work as an electrician and he used volunteers to help successfully light a light bulb.
Students left each classroom with knowledge on a variety of careers and took a break from their normal academic routines.
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