MHS fair is peering into careers

By: Itzel Herrera LO’T Focus Editor

On Mar. 23, the Kathleen Curry Medhus Career Center arrived at MHS, with the career expo organized around career clusters that showed up for MHS students in careers of Hospitality, Tourism, and Health and Human Services. These were some of the catego- ries present in the career fair. In particular, careers such as musical therapy, fire fighters, dental tech and social work were present during the event.

This organization is prominent in Moline High School, as in the Spring of 2021, Kathy Curry Medhus who worked as a Librarian at MHS for 37 years, dedicated her 90th birthday money donation to career resources.

This career fair gave the opportunity for students to go face to face with employers and form connections, in which many varieties of work fields were available to establish potential internships and provide information.

“One of our cornerstone pieces is PrepStep, a Career and College readiness database that has practice tests for most major standardized tests including ACT, SAT and ASVAB,” explains Carolyn Mesick, Library Media Specialist at MHS. “It offers educational modules to help students improve their scores, create a resume and beef up their employability skills,” she continues.