Hundreds of eighth graders from Aiken County’s 11 middle schools converged on the Western Carolina State Fair grounds Feb. 27 for the “Power Up Your Future Career and College Day” to explore career opportunities with the help of local businesses, colleges and instructors and students from the Aiken County Career & Technology Center.
“A lot of the challenge with students today is that they don’t know what exists, they don’t know what opportunities are out there, so this is more of an exposure event for them, for them to see the correlation between the courses they’ll take in high school and how they translate into careers once they graduate,” said Kenneth Lott, the school district’s director of Career & Technical Education.
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