Valliant holds GEAR UP Career Fair

Valliant High School students got a glimpse of life after graduation as 18 professionals visited the school for a Career Fair.

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. Valliant GEAR UP Site Coordinator Kay Collins coordinated the event.

Careers in health care, law enforcement, wildlife, engineering, education, public safety, technology and more talked to students about their respective fields.

Students chose which fields were of interest to them and participated in sessions with professionals from those fields.

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.