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Rockwood School District Hosts 8th Grade Career Fair
At The Kemp Auto Museum
Local Auto Museum Donates Facility Space For
District-Wide Career Exploration Event

Chesterfield, Missouri – The Rockwood School District in St. Louis County, Missouri recently hosted their annual 8th Grade Career Fair event from Tuesday, February 24 through Thursday, February 26, 2009 at the Kemp Auto Museum in the Chesterfield Valley.

To help the Rockwood School District with cost of hosting the educational event, the Kemp Auto Museum donated the use of their facility space for the three-day career fair, as well as for the time for beforehand and afterwards for set up and tear down of the event. Through the generosity of the Kemp Auto Museum, Rockwood saved almost $10,000 in facility rental fees, a significant savings for the school district.

This career exploration fair, a part of Rockwood’s curriculum, provided 1,800 eighth grade students the opportunity to meet with at least 175 local business and industry representatives to learn more about potential career paths. Students were given the chance to explore three occupations at the career fair, including advertising and marketing; architecture and engineering; business ownership; visual, culinary and performing arts; retail and the fashion industries; computer technology; legal professions; human and veterinary medicine; military and defense careers; as well as education and teaching.

Allison Hershberger, Museum General Manager and Director of Special Events notes, “The Kemp Auto Museum is committed to furthering community education, and we are proud that we could offer the Rockwood School District the complimentary use of our facility.” She adds, “By hosting the Rockwood 8th Grade Career Fair at the Museum, it is our hope that the students learned more about the history and culture of the automobile while they interacted with the career experts and community volunteers.”



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