Career Connections Program Links Clinton County Grads

Career Connections, a 10-course program put together by the Clinton County Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA) and Lansing Community College (LCC), is connecting high school juniors and seniors with job options. The program exposes kids to allied health, auto service, business management, computer support systems, construction trades, criminal justice, EMS/fire, teacher prep and TV/radio careers.

According to excerpts from the article:

Justin Proper is a 2006 graduate of Ovid-Elsie High School and a sophomore at Ferris State University where he is studying TV production. Proper did two years of TV/Radio.

"It was really great," said Proper. "Before I took the class, I didn't know what I wanted to do. James Ford (the instructor) gave us a lot of information and made it clear there are a lot of options."

In the second year of TV/Radio, Proper did a senior project.

"I'm way ahead of the other freshmen and sophomores in the program at Ferris," he said. "A lot of the kids were totally stressing out over video projects, but I was so used to it.

"My best high school experience was that class."

Emily Schrauben graduated from Fowler High School in 2007. She took the Early Childhood. Now she is studying nursing with a goal of becoming a pediatric nurse.

"I learned a lot about child development from birth to age 8," said Schrauben, "and I learned a lot about developing plans for children ? routines and activities."

Though Schrauben in going into nursing, she stills feels the Early Childhood program was worthwhile for her.

"It was good for nursing because you need to take psychology for nursing and we did a lot of child psychology in Early Childhood," she said. "It was really helpful for babysitting. I got a lot of ideas for activities, art projects, seasonal ideas."

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