Wilhelmina Blair, a student in Mrs. Lindsey Hood’s first grade class at Eastern Elementary, tries to retrieve a penny on the ground as fellow classmates look onward. The utility glove challenge was a part of the Glasgow EPB’s career fair booth held at Eastern Elementary School on Wednesday, May 5, 2021.
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GLASGOW, Ky. — Students at Eastern Elementary School participated in a career fair with area organizations Wednesday morning.
Various community businesses such as the Glasgow Electric Plant Board, Farmers Rural Electric, SCRTC, 3A Composites and first responders were in attendance.
Lindsey Hood’s first grade class was one of many groups of students who walked through the fair. Mrs. Hood said students benefit from the early exposure to various careers.
“This is a great thing for our students to learn all about different trades or college opportunities that they could do to help them in their future,” Hood said, “to help them learn and grow.”
Wilhelmina Blair, first grade, stopped by the Glasgow Electric Plant Board’s booth. Blair had quite the time when she tried to pick up a penny on the blacktop while dressed in lineman’s attire.
Students were outfitted with rubber sleeves and thick, large utility gloves.
On the other side of the parking lot sat members of Barren-Metcalfe EMS, East Barren Fire Department and the Glasgow Police Department.
Captain Justin Kirkpatrick and two of Glasgow Police’s newest recruits offered students the chance to climb into his police cruiser and control the “siren box.” Students also spoke to their teachers on the cruiser’s PA system.
Hood said students begin to show interest in careers and dreams early on, and the exposure to those various careers is a promoter of those thoughts.
“Now is the time to start kind of teaching them and paving that path to what they want to be when they grow up,” Hood said.
Hood also said, “opening their minds and broadening their choices” creates a strong sense of encouragement for students.
