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Career Day at Bethlehem Central Middle School allows seventh graders to explore various professions and gain insight into different paths they can pursue in the future.<\/p>\n
Business owners, health care professionals, police officers, engineers, attorneys,\u00a0 researchers, bus drivers, artists and environmentalists were among the presenters who filled this year\u2019s classrooms with conversations, questions and answers about their day-to-day activities and their individual career journeys.<\/p>\n
Students heard from individuals representing a wide spectrum of careers. All were enthusiastic about their career choices and the paths that took them to where they are today.<\/p>\n
Career Day at BCMS has grown over the last few years with 50-60 guest speakers each year, many of whom are community members and parents of students at the school. The annual event is coordinated by Family and Consumer Science teachers Maria Hayes and Lindsey Bradt. Their success has become a model for other middle schools across the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teachers created a welcoming \u201cbreak room\u201d for the guest speakers, where they all had an opportunity to get to know one another and share some delicious snacks. The light fare was donated by Career Day sponsors Emma Cleary\u2019s Cafe, Dunkin\u2019 Donuts, Stewart\u2019s Shops, Schuyler Bakery and Hannaford.<\/p>\n
Thank you to Ms. Hayes and Ms. Bradt and a special shout-out to the outstanding Career Day guests who inspired students this year. They are:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rich \u201cAce\u201d Akullian \u2013 Entrepreneur, Akullian Creative Enterprises
\nAlastair Aitchison \u2013 Architect\u00a0
\nAlbany Firebirds \u2013 Zach Soden, Ben Nelson and Anthony Bisner
\nAndrew Arbeit \u2013 Attorney specializing in NY workers\u2019 compensation defense
\nLisa Baranik- Associate Professor in the Management Department in the School of Business and Associate Dean for Research\u00a0
\nJason Bradt \u2013 Town of Bethlehem Highway Dept. Equipment Operator II\u00a0
\nAlaina Brophy \u2013 Corporate Bankruptcy Attorney (NYC)
\nChris Carr \u2013 Engineer\u00a0
\nJames Cascione \u2013 Process Safety Engineer
\nChris Coleman \u2013 FAA Aviation Safety Inspector
\nAndrew Deroo \u2013 Trauma Surgeon and Surgical Intensive Care Physician
\nLeslie Deroo \u2013 Refugee Case Manager\u00a0
\nFrancesca DiMola \u2013 Human Resources Specialist
\nGina Ellis \u2013 Physical Therapist
\nSherry Faye \u2013 Research Scientist\u00a0
\nMichael Giacoma- Aerospace Engineer
\nSamuel Gonzalez \u2013 Retired Police Detective & Criminal Justice Instructor @ FMCC
\nJennifer Hayes \u2013 Anesthesiologist
\nNicholas Hesel \u2013 Fire Protecting Engineer\u00a0
\nLucas Holmquist \u2013 Senior Software Engineer
\nSusumu Iida \u2013 Semiconductor Researcher
\nErik LaChance \u2013 State Farm Agent\u00a0
\nChristopher Meislahn \u2013 Taxpayer Rights Advocate (NYS)
\nMolly Michalek \u2013 Auto Insurance Claims Team Manager
\nJill Monticello \u2013 Medical Device Sales\u00a0
\nIsabel Morgan \u2013 Therapist & Owner, Walk It Out Now
\nKevin Nasadoski \u2013 Business Owner, Landscape for Less
\nResa Ostrander \u2013 Training Director (NYS Executive Chamber)
\nBlakeny Peschel \u2013 Strategic Portfolio Management
\nAdam Prusik \u2013 Supervisor of Forensic Services
\nNicole Privitera \u2013 Early Childhood Educator\u00a0
\nBrian Reilly \u2013 Cybersecurity\u00a0
\nJoe Robichaud \u2013 Terracon Operations Manager\u00a0
\nTracey Semeiks \u2013 Supervising Judge
\nAndrew Sheehan \u2013 Hoosic Valley Jr. Sr. High Principal
\nErin Sheevers- Chief Technology Officer, BCSD
\nLauren Spector \u2013 Public Information Officer (NYS DHCR)
\nKrista Spohr \u2013 Environmental Program Specialist (NYS DEC)
\nJomol Turinksy \u2013 Diagnostic Radiologist
\nEthan Wells \u2013 Civil\/Structural Engineer
\nYvonne White \u2013 Sports Medicine Doctor\u00a0
\nMarisa Whitelaw \u2013 Certified Nurse Midwife, Women\u2019s Health NP
\nMaggie Wood \u2013 Attorney\u00a0
\nStacy Wozniak \u2013 Speech Language Pathologist
\nQiang (Steven) Wu \u2013 Ph.D. Candidate \/Adjunct Lecturer in Political Science
\nBrian Rhatigan- Arena Sporting Host
\nTrooper Bowers \u2013 NYS Police Troop G Recruiter
\nRobert Tanner & Nico (therapy dog) \u2013 Retired Chief Petty Officer, Navy SeaBees & Retired Highway Foreman
\nLisa McAndrew \u2013 Research Clinical Psychologist
\nPatrick Woods \u2013 Appellate Attorney (NYS Attorney General)
\nAva Schlesinger \u2013 Construction Project Manager\u00a0
\nMatt Callahan \u2013 Tri City Valley Cats\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Career Day at Bethlehem Central Middle School allows seventh graders to explore various professions and gain insight into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[44236,44237,153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-152754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bcms-archive","9":"tag-bcms-news","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}