Fall Business and Industry Tour 2014

October 6, 2014 /

From Lyn C. :

Attention home schooled high school age students: Fall Business and Industry Tour is in the works. It will take place on November 4th from about 8am to 3:30pm. We start at the Harms Center and then each tour goes to businesses in the area to learn about what they do and career opportunities. Several high schools participate and the kids ride the bus from place to place, but VHSA kids generally don’t ride the bus. Parents sign up to go with them and we travel in our own vehicles following the bus for our tour. Not every parent has to go, but we usually send 1 vehicle and 1 adult on each tour our kids want to do.

Please note that these tours are geared toward high school students and are open to mature teens from our group. High schools usually bring sophomores and juniors, so think ages 15 to 17. Our kids do fine in the group, but please remember that we want them to be really interested not just sent along because someone else thought it would be good for them.

Here are the available tours:

Human Services & Education 

i. Scottsbluff Police Dept at Public Service Building
ii. Shelly Thomas (Social Worker/Forensic Interviewer) – Capstone
iii. Linda Mattern Ritz – Education
iv. Panel of Attorneys who have returned home to practice, Lori Armstrong Browning, John Hunzeker

Health Sciences 

i. Heritage Health Care
ii. CAPWYN-Dental Hygiene Program and Public Health
iii. Quick Care
iv. Pharmacy

Skilled & Technical Sciences

i. Baker & Associates
ii. Nemnich Auto
iii. WNCC Autotech 
iv. Aulick Industries or Progress Rail

Business, Marketing and Management 

i. Dominoes Pizza – Franchise, small business ownership
ii. Mindy Burbach – Marketing-Platte Valley Companies
iii. Sandy Massey – Human Resources – Platte Valley Companies

Ag, Food and Natural Resources

i. Western Sugar
ii. Victory Hill Farms
iii. Pioneer Animal Clinic
iv. Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Communications/IT Systems 

i. Allo Communications
ii. KNEB
iii. Midwest Theater, Becky McMillan-Independent filmmaker, Justin Lane-Theater set builder, Local Photographer
iv. North Platte NRD – focus on GIS careers, wells monitoring, police mapping, etc.

At this point, most of the businesses have committed and plans are moving forward. Lunch will be pizza, cookies, and bottled water for students with adults having the option of a chef’s salad instead of pizza. Each student needs to choose 1 tour to attend that day, and we will need at least 1 driver for each tour our students want to attend. We will need to give them a list of students for each tour later this month, so please let us know as soon as you can who want to do which tour. Also let us know if you can drive or if you know of other parents who might like to drive. Specifically, we need the names of all participants and which tour they want to attend. We’ll give that info to the committee so that name tags and packets will be ready on the day of the tour. Then we just show up that morning and follow the bus for our tour from place to place. There is no cost to attend.

If you are hoping to attend, please contact Lyn as soon as possible. Deadline to register is October 21st!

Lyn Carradine :: (308) 633-5009
lyn@valleyhomeschool.org

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