 
Throughout
the day, middle school students were mentored by
older role models from Magic City Campus.
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On
January 24, 2004, the first nontraditional
career workshop for boys was held at Minot
High School, Magic City Campus. The
workshop was open to students in grades
8-11. Nineteen boys braved the cold
January day to attend. Nontraditional
careers are careers where 75 percent or
more of the workers are the opposite
gender. The purpose of this workshop was
to expose boys to nontraditional career
opportunities for their
consideration.
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The
following is a list of
presenters:
- Breaun
Nickelson - Daddy's Day
Care
- Arin
Marchand - Michael's
Restaurant
- Ssgt
Don E. Jones - U.S. Army Recruiting
- Jay
Wold - Community Ambulance
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Breaun
Nickelson from Daddy's Day Care is shown above
talking to the boys about changing diapers. Breaun
gave the boys some background information on
nutrition and then pulled out his bag of goodies
filled with the tools he uses to assist in his work
as a child care worker.
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Holly
Major, coordinator for this event, is shown above
giving the boys some glow germ to see how well they
washed their hands. It was stressed how important
hand washing is to child care workers.
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Arin
Marchand, a chef from Michael's Restaurant, is
shown above giving the boys a cooking demonstration
before turning them loose to cook their own lunch.
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Arin
is showing a few of the boys how to stir it up. The
boys were divided into groups with each group
having their own kitchen to prepare their lunch.
Teamwork became very important.
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Ssgt
Don E Jones from the U.S. Army Recruiting station
in Minot talked briefly about the army during
lunch. He offered handouts to any of the boys who
were interested. Talking to such a young audience
is a good way to plant seeds for the future.
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Jay
Wold from Community Ambulance is shown above with a
couple of boys who were brave enough to try on the
empathy bellies. Jay talked to the boys about
careers in healthcare, especially EMT.
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The
tall student on the right is a volunteer assistant
who helped Jay with the healthcare presentations.
He is shown above demonstrating CPR techniques. The
volunteer assistant is enrolled in the advanced
health careers class at Magic City Campus and is in
the process of becoming an EMT.
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The
boys finally get to practice what they learned
earlier about changing diapers.
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For
the final event of they day there was a fear factor
challenge. Each group of students were required to
finish their plate of delicacies. Included on the
plate was whole canned squid, boiled quail eggs,
longan (lychee fruit) in a special sauce to make
them look like bloody eye balls, fried anchovies,
black fungus mushrooms, and sardines in mustard and
tomato sauce. They were allowed to remove the squid
head and viscera before eating.
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