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Career Quest Held at Northeast Alabama
Community College
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Northeast Alabama Community College
recently hosted a Career Quest, part of the national campaign
Dream It! Do It!, for Advanced Manufacturing through a
teleconference event on campus. Career Quest, an outreach of Sci-Quest
in Huntsville, is a program designed to introduce middle, high
school and early college-aged students to the high-growth career
fields in the Tennessee Valley by providing them an opportunity
to meet career professionals in these focus areas. Seeking to
reach a wider audience, Sci-Quest partnered with NACC in this
first joint teleconference event.
In addition to the teleconference
information, NACC instructors, career coaches, and industry
representatives were on hand to answer questions about local
industry needs and potential job opportunities in the field of
Advanced Manufacturing. One of the local industry leaders
participating in the event was GH Metal Solutions from Fort
Payne.
Dream It! Do It! is a national campaign
intended to recruit young career seekers into the exciting field
of Advanced Manufacturing. A video, filmed in Northeast Alabama,
highlighted community colleges and the programs offered to
prepare students for the careers. The video was included in the
Career Quest presentation.
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To encourage student
participation, NACC offered a $1000 Technical
Scholarship in the field of Advanced Manufacturing to
one eligible student in attendance. The winner of the
scholarship was Zach Taylor from Sylvania.
The event was held in the
Workforce Development building. For more information,
contact Sherry Whitten, Director of the College and
Career Planning Center at NACC at phone extension 315,
or by e-mail at
whittens@nacc.edu.
Pictured are Zach
Taylor
and Sherry Whitten.
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