3/24 Careers on Wheels

Last Friday, Brunswick Community College housed an event for fifth graders in BCS to learn about jobs involving driving.

Lauren Nelson, Editor in Chief

  • UPS employees answering kids questions about how their job works.

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  • Shallotte firemen talking to students from Union Elementary, while answering their questions.

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  • Students from Union Elementary asking these men questions about their career.

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  • Students from Union Elementary exploring one of the vehicles at the event.

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  • Students from Union Elementary exploring one of the vehicles at the event.

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  • Students getting off the mass evacuation bus after taking a look around.

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  • Students listen as employees from Heritage Fresh Market talk about their jobs.

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  • Senior Kyndel Johnson posing in front of the Supply fire truck.

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  • Students watching a demonstration by the Sheriff officers in attendance.

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  • Fifth graders looking at the GFL truck, while also talking to the employee and asking questions.

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  • Fifth grade students coming out of the emergency evacuation vehicle.

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  • Fifth grade students coming out of the emergency evacuation vehicle.

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  • Shallotte police officers talking to students about their job and answering questions.

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  • Shallotte police officers showing a video about what they do to students.

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  • A local fire marshall talking to fifth graders about his job.

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  • Senior Reyde Jones helping with the food for volunteers that came.

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  • Employees of different organizations getting ready before the fifth grade students arrive.

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  • Employees of different organizations getting ready before the fifth grade students arrive.

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  • Employees of different organizations getting ready before the fifth grade students arrive.

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  • Employees of different organizations getting ready before the fifth grade students arrive.

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On Friday, March 24th, the first-ever Careers on Wheels event was held at Brunswick Community College. This event was organized by Taylor Thompson and Shakema Wilson. 

They wanted to allow fifth graders to learn about mobile careers. Not all careers involve sitting behind a desk and working on a computer, and they wanted each child to know that.

Organizations came from all across Brunswick County. For example, the fire departments, police departments, farmers, UPS, EMS, and more. There were almost 700 fifth graders in attendance from the elementary schools in BCS.

The event was broken up into two sections, with three to four schools in each one. There were a total of eight rows of vehicles to explore. Elementary school teachers were handed a map of where everything was and were assigned a row. The students from each school could explore each side of the row they were on till time was called. Then they would move to the next row and continue this process until they had seen everything.

The fifth graders had a lot of fun and learned many new things about careers that involve driving. Some jobs they all probably knew about, while others opened their eyes to many new opportunities.