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Contact: Technical and Industrial Division - 208/792-2220; Office and Business Technology Division - 208/792-2466

2002 Vocational-Professional Preview
Showcases Opportunity

First take about 650 north-central Idaho high school students. Add a group of enthusiastic college faculty and staff; get everyone together in LCSC's gymnasium, put on some fired-up music, toss candy and tee shirts into the crowd and what do you get? The high-energy opening of VoTech Day, a multi-faceted, half-day recruiting event designed to showcase the wide variety of programs offered by the college's Technical and Industrial (T&I) and Office and Business Technology (OBT) Divisions.

It all happened on Feb. 12, a day blessed with sun and the feel of early spring, the kind of day that makes people glad to be in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. After the mass-gathering kickoff, attendees broke into groups and set out to tour T&I and OBT facilities and the rest of campus.

There was plenty to learn about welding, automated manufacturing, information systems analysis, office technology, paralegal, web development and the rest of the many programs offered by the two divisions.

The scene at the auto body repair shop provided an example of the sights and information each location on the tour had to offer. The doors of the workplace garage were wide open to make it easy to see the vehicles currently being worked on. Pulled out into the sun, where its bright metallic paint job couldn't be missed, was a to-die-for rebuilt small pickup truck. Small knots of students checked out the facility while others listened to Assistant Professor Clarence Griffin tell about the attractive auto body repair jobs and pay that are available in Idaho today and how T&I's program trains people for such work.

At noon, the prospective students assembled for brown-bag lunches, the chance to watch enlarged digital images of the morning's events, and to learn who won the two $500 scholarships that were given away. Well fortified with food for thought and stomach both, they then piled back onto their buses and headed for home.

What is the hope of those that worked hard to put on this well-planned event? That the young people departed with exciting and realistic ideas about what is possible for them after high school and that LCSC is a place to make it happen.

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