Career Day Takes Over UTES Campus

By Kevin Almasy • January 26, 2018

UTES fifth graders work on fingerprinting with APD forensic scientists Sonseree Gibson-Latent.

On Friday, January 26, UTES held it’s annual campus-wide career day. This year’s event focused on STEaM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) careers. Throughout the morning students had the opportunity to interact with local APD officers, UT professors, civil and robotics engineers, forensic scientists and even KVUE sports anchor Shawn Clynch.

Career day participants discussed how they chose their career, the required skills to be successful at their career and the tools and technologies they use on a daily basis.

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APD career day — UTES first graders in Ms. McCoy’s class raise their hands to be picked to try out the police megaphone.

UTES forensics — UTES fifth graders in Mr. Hall’s class work on fingerprinting with APD forensic scientists Sonseree Gibson-Latent.

UTES google — Chris Anderson from Google talks with pre-K students about driverless cars and Goggle Fiber.

UTES museum — Student’s from Ms. Trautman’s fourth grade class ask Kaitlyn Loyd, a museum educator, questions about the Civil War.