Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School’s annual College and Career Day is a success

From left are CADNET TVA Supervisor Alex Anderson, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Joseph Garcia, LFO Work-based Learning Coordinator/head football coach Bo Campbell, McKee Foods Corp.'s Rhonda Wellborn, Local Union 43's Larry Morrison, McKee Foods' Vicki Randolph, Food City manager Bill Abline, Primary Health Care Center's Sandy Matheson, National Boiler Services' Larry Brown, Ironworkers Local 704's Brent Chambers, Catoosa County Sheriff's Office Deputy Stephen Cheatham, Catoosa County Sheriff's Office Cpl. Jake Hollis and Sgt. George Walton.

By Katie Ward March 23, 2016 1 min read

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LFO High School’s annual College and Career Day is a success

LFO senior Kaelob Flood, CADNET TVA Supervisor Alex Anderson and sophomores Braiden Pack and Emanuel Arroyo take a look at the CADNET program. TVA's CADNET focuses on enrolling LFO juniors and seniors into TVA to help them get their foot in the door for future employment.

Rhonda Doran, Bed, Bath & Beyond of Hamilton Place Mall District trainer, in back, talks to students about careers at the store. From left are Michell McCorkle, her daughter, senior Candace Gooch, and sophomores Katie Winters, Bailee Meredith and Bailey Evett.

Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School sophomores Kechone Scott, Johnathan Cutcher, Chance Burden, James Webb, Autumn Christian, Maddie Worley and Christina Deland, from left, meet with Chattanooga Zoo Director of Community Engagement James Brantley.

Clockwise from left are ThyssenKrupp branch manager Andrew O'Connell, operations manager Rodney Lingerfelt, office manager Erica Ryan, and sophomores Nathan Page, Jarrod Pyle and Avery Saunders.

Georgia Northwestern Technical College nursing program meets with students at LFO. From left are LPN Nursing instructor Beverly Fritts, LPN students Tristan Taylor and Sharon Foster, Nursing Department secretary Deborah Carson, LFO sophomore Niki Patel, LPN student Elizabeth Lambert, and LFO sophomores Jerrian Jackson, Abigail Seay and Hannah Rae.

LFO sophomore Chandler Bell, left, talks to Chip Headrick about the Sewanee: The University of the South, where Headrick graduated from in 1984. Bell said he is thinking about attending Sewanee after high school.

Representatives from 79 businesses and colleges packed into the gymnasium at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School. Sophomores, juniors and seniors walked around slowly, stopping to mingle when something caught their attention.

“We are grateful for all the participation of the businesses, colleges and technical schools,” Wayne Weaver, assistant principal of career, technical, agriculture, education, said in regards to the recent career fair. “We will have some possible internships and careers as a result of today. Some guys will partner with us to guarantee jobs. We want that culminating work experience to reinforce technical skills we’ve been teaching.”