 Mojave Xpress Academy at Barstow High sponsored their First Annual Career Fair on February 25, 2010. With more than 30 booths from local businesses and industry, students were able to talk to professionals who were “doing the job,” and ask questions about future opportunities and career options.
Students were scheduled to visit the Career Fair during all class periods from 8:30am-3:00pm, so that all of the 1,500 members of the student body had an opportunity to participate.
There were 22 student volunteers who had signed up and were excited to
help with the Fair. Chelsea, a sophomore volunteer in the Mojave XP
Academy, when asked about the Career Fair, said “It’s been successful.
Everyone seems to be enjoying it and getting a lot out of it.” Another
Mojave XP sophomore, Lydia, agreed and said, ”Barstow High has never
had a Career Fair before where we can check out other kinds of jobs.”
District Superintendent, Susan Levine had this to say, “Mojave XP
Academy has opened doors in career training opportunities for students
that have not been opened before. This is exciting for Barstow!” Teresa
Healy, Assistant Superintendent, also commented, “This is a good
opportunity for students to find out about careers they haven’t heard
of or seen before.” 
Southern California Edison, not only had a booth with representatives
to speak to students, but they also brought a Lineman’s Truck to
demonstrate actual job operations and introduce the Lineman’s College.
Lawrence Fitz, SCE Manager of Job Skills Partnership, was “glad to meet
students and tell them about internship and career opportunities.”
Mojave XP Lead Teacher, Gary Johnson said, “Students have really owned this event, and have been excited about being involved.”
The ROP Television class provided a “live feed” of the event, and
recorded comments and reactions from students, faculty and
participants. They said that the consensus of student opinion was,
“They should do this more often!”
 In addition to SCE, business participants included: US Marine Logistics Base, Barstow Community College, Barstow Unified School District, Northrop Grumman, Department of Parks and Recreation, US Navy, Wal-Mart, US Marines, among other local firms and organizations.
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