Deana Reno, Career Coach for Blue Mountain School, helps our students explore career choices for their futures. She also helps them make plans for colleges and classes they need to be most successful for their chosen careers.

Today Blue Mountain 9th graders went and toured the Tippah Career & Technology Center. The students learned about each of the 6 programs that are offered. These programs include Automotive, Law and Public Safety, Information Technology, Construction/Carpentry, Health Science and Welding. The instructors from these programs shared information with the students and also included career opportunities within these fields.

Rachel Parks, Senior Environmental Engineer at Toyota, visited Blue Mountain’s 8th-grade science class today! She shared insights on Toyota’s environmental policy, PIONEER, which stands for Protect the Environment, Implement Sustainable Initiatives, Obey Compliance Obligations, Natural Resource Conservation, Environmental Culture, Energy Conservation, and Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Students had a great time answering questions and earning awesome prizes!

A huge thank you to Ms. Parks for taking time out of her busy schedule to inspire and educate our students. Special thanks to Career Coach Deana Reno for making this opportunity possible!

Congratulations to Andrea Portillo, a 10th grader at Blue Mountain High School for participating in The Imagine the Possibilities Career Expo. She won Apple AirPods by watching videos and exploring 16 career pathways for career opportunities. There were 41 schools in North Mississippi competing for prizes.The future is yours Andrea.

On Friday before fall break, Career Coach Deana Reno introduced Imagine The Possibilities (ITP)  Career Expo to the 10th graders.  ITP exposes students to 18 potential career pathways.  The students pick their career interest, watch the videos and listen to podcasts to gain points.  You have to gain points to be able to be in the drawing for Apple product prizes.  Lets Go 10th graders.

Mrs. Reno met with Coach Cook’s 7th grade US History Beginnings to 1877 class today. They discussed all the different careers by completing the A-Z Challenge. Each student lists the careers that start with every letter of the alphabet.  They also completed The Price is Right.  This is where you match the careers with their annual salaries.  The last thing we talked about was A Career Family Tree. The students talked about what they liked or disliked  about their grandparents and parents’ career choices.

Blue Mountain Juniors took the ASVAB (which stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) test on Wednesday.  This test was originally designed to predict future academic and occupational success in military occupations. Good Luck to the ones that are interested in a military career.