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Issue date: 11/21/02 Section: News

Austin Kitch/SilhouetteJerry Daniels, state trooper, stands in front of one of Kansas’s four state trooper helicopters during Career Exploration 2000 on Nov. 20. The chopper was parked in the field just to the east of the Fine Arts building. Austin Kitch/Silhouette

Patrick Williams, Dodge City K-9 unit, congratulates Arko, a 2-year-old police dog, after a demonstration of skill. Austin Kitch/Silhouette [Click to enlarge]

Area high school juniors and seniors attended Career Exploration Day on Nov. 20.

Judy Crymble, dean of technical education, said 347 high school students attended.

"Every year we get right up to the event and we're all so busy we wonder why we take on this project," Crymble said. "And then we see the kids and they're so excited and so involved, it makes it all worthwhile."

Crymble said Exploration Day helps students to get a better grasp on what they might want to do with their lives.

"They say students of today will have five or seven careers in their lives," Crymble said. "Not jobs. Careers."

Linda Morgan, criminal justice instructor, said she thought the day went well.

"Working together with professionals, agencies and students is really an invaluable combination," Morgan said. "Career Exploration 2002 was awesome and couldn't have been accomplished without the wonderful assistance of staff, students and our community supporters and professionals."

Steven Schupman, Garden City High School, thought that the presentation given by Lt. Ron Knoefel, Kansas state trooper, was his favorite part of Exploration Day. Knoefel had a simulator to demonstrate what happens in the event of a car roll-over.

During the presentation, a dummy sitting in the drivers seat was ejected from the window several times to demonstrate that seat belts save lives.

"[The demonstration] shows what happens when you don't wear a seat belt," Schupman said. "It really opens your eyes."

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