Boswell holds GEAR UP Career Fair

Boswell students explored possible career paths last week as the school hosted its fourth annual Career Fair November 28.

The fair was sponsored by the Southeastern Oklahoma State University Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Partnership as part of a career mini-grant program for the month of November, which is National Career Month. Boswell High School Counselor Cleta Davis coordinated the event.

Eight professionals visited the school, and talked with students about their respective fields, including mechanics, health care, law enforcement, speech pathology, contracting and entrepreneurship. Davis assigned students to fields according to an interest survey.

“My motivation to do a career fair is to show kids their opportunities, because sometimes they limit themselves. We want to show them that their boundaries are limitless,” Davis said.

The SOSU GEAR UP Partnership is a federally grant funded program that serves 1,852 eleventh- and twelfth-graders in 14 schools in Bryan, Choctaw and McCurtain counties. The schools are: Achille, Bennington, Boswell, Broken Bow, Caddo, Calera, Colbert, Durant, Fort Towson, Hugo, Rock Creek, Silo, Soper and Valliant.

For more information on GEAR UP, call (580) 745-3122 or visit www.se.edu/gearup.