Wednesday, August 31st was the 2016 9th Grade Job Shadow Day at DRSS. On this day, students traveled to over 50 different locations across the Miami Valley and beyond to learn a bit more about their dream jobs.
Job Shadow Day at DRSS happens twice a year; once for 9th graders in first semester, and again for 10th graders in the second. As part of the DRSS Career Exploration Model, students began their search for job shadow locations all the way back in 8th grade. Many of them successfully landed a shadow location, while others were aided by the DRSS administration in nailing down their final job shadow site.
This year, students traveled to more sites than ever before! The Dayton Regional STEM School would like to thank all of the many organizations who hosted our students.
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This experience is such an important part of the DRSS Career Exploration model because it provides students with a taste of what working in their dream jobs is like on a day-to-day basis. While we were unable to get to all locations, we were able to get pictures of many of the organizations who hosted our students. Take a look at some of their experiences below!
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| Many thanks to Premier Health for hosting so many of our students for job shadow day today! We had
six students interested in various health care jobs and they brought in
multiple guests to speak to the students from throughout Miami Valley Hospital. |
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| Dennis Perkins shadowed at Vantage, an encapsulation company in Englewood . His shadow mentor, Eric Towers, was giving him a tour of the
plant when we caught up with him! |
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| We found Dalin Shively eating breakfast with Chef Louie and his team before getting ready to serve lunch at the Dayton Cooks!
program. Dalin is interested in the culinary arts and was happy to see what it's like to work in a kitchen setting feeding
lots of people at once! |
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caught up with Jordan Young as he was learning how to change the
bedding for the Live Animal Department's Green and Black Poison Dart
Frogs, a species of frog they have that comes from South America. Mark
Mazzei was his mentor and had a full workday planned for him! |
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| Sydney
Boman had a blast at Brown and Bills Architects. We caught
up with her as one of her mentors, Shathra, was showing her how to use
their AutoCAD program. |
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| Trenton and Pierce had a blast at Lunarline learning about the cyber security work they do! |
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| Caven Stanley shadowed at Carl's Body Shop and they put him to work helping replace a car window! Caven
loves all things cars and was excited for the opportunity to work in an
auto shop! |
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| Skyler and TaVion had a great time helping out at the K12Gallery & Tejas during their job shadow day! |
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| Niels had a blast at Catapult Creative learning about the work they do and the tools they use to help tell the stories of their clients! |
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| Sarah
O'Connor completed her job shadowing experience with Andrew Bogle
at the University of Dayton Research Institute. She's seen here
operating a robotic arm in the UD Mumma Radar Laboratory. |
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| Sarah shadowed at Wright State University, where she had the opportunity to check out Diggs Laboratory and see the work that goes on in the Environmental Sciences Department with Dr. John Stiremann III. |
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| Virginia shadowed Dr. Rouhana and learned about the work he does in the Wright State University Biology Labs. |
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| Molly King shadowed at the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and had a great time learning about the business side of DCDC. She's
seen here interviewing Michelle VanHuss as part of her job shadow
experience assignment. |
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| Engineering Company CH2M hosted Andrew and Lizzie for their job shadow experience, and
they had a great time learning about what it's like to be an engineer! |
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| Carly Rohrbach is excited to be shadowing at the Victoria Theatre Association! |
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| Dylan
Morter was shadowing at Emerson in Dayton. He had a great
experience shadowing one of his dad's co-workers, but his dad also had
time to take a picture or too with him as well! |
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| Kylie Woolum shadowed graphic artists Amanda and Kade at Awards of Excellence today and learned a little about website coding, Photoshop, and
engraving. She even got to create her own design and turn it into a
vinyl sticker during her experience! |
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| Katherine
Kadish, Michael Wood, Anthony Walls, Trinity Minus and Connor McQueen traveled with their mentor, Mike Wood, to visit with Katherine Kadish at her office. There, they saw how Zoomtext helps her access
to email and the Internet thanks to the company's assistive software. |
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| Ethan Bolt tackled a pretty ambitious project during his internship experience at Diversified Engineering Concepts on his shadow experience, starting with a flip-flop circuit that would drive a digital input on an industrial PLC while displaying the count on an industrial HMI. Many thanks to his mentor, Bill Naylor, for providing such an awesome experience for Ethan! |
Thank you to all of our shadow locations and mentors for the amazing experiences you provided to our students! If you would like to see additional pictures, please
visit our Facebook album.
To learn more about becoming a job shadow mentor for our students, please
visit the Student Job Shadow Program page on our website and sign up! If you have additional pictures to share from hosting a student, please email them to
arch.grieve@wright.edu.
