Marana High students scope out job prospects at Career Pathways Expo

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Laura Pieslewicz, right, helps a Marana High School student clear the airway of 鈥淐hoking Charlie鈥� at the Pima Community College emergency medical technology tent at the Career Pathways Expo.

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Melina Garcia, left, a senior at Marana High School, shows a fellow student how to place a sample for DNA analysis at a table for Marana鈥檚 biomedical science program. The expo was held Thursday at Pima Community College鈥檚 Northwest Campus.

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Marana High School students fill balloons with glass beads at a sensory table for early childhood development at the tent for Pima Community College Early Childhood Studies during the Career Pathways Expo at Pima Community College North campus on Jan. 12, 2018. The event highlighted 21st-century CTE/JTED career education for ninth-graders. It was co-sponsored by Marana School District, PCC and Marana Chamber of Commerce.

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Marana High School freshmen scoped out their job prospects as part of a Career Pathways Expo on Thursday.

The event was put on by the Marana Chamber of Commerce Education Committee, the Marana Unified School District and Pima Community College.

Students learned about career and technical education courses available with the district, exploring four pathways: art and design, medical, industrial, and business and student services.

鈥淚t is critically important when our students graduate and leave us, they are life-long learners; equipped with the skills they need to enter college with credits already earned or to enter into the work force having already been exposed to real-life work experiences,鈥� said John Jones, director of career and technical education in the Marana School District.