Plainfield High School Central Campus hosted a Reality Store and Career Fair on April 27th. The sophomore students had to imagine being 25, earning a living, and working to budget their "real life" expenses.

In addition to the Reality Store, the students attended three career presentations, a Career Cruising website class, and participated in an activity facilitated by members of the P.E. Department. It was a complete reality and career experience.

Community business members volunteered to become educators for the day to help students through the activity. Harris Bank, Jewel Food Store, Realty World and Plainfield Park District returned this year as some of the community volunteers who have so generously donated their time.

Plainfield Junior Village, SBC, Illinois Department of Employment Securities, Chestnut Credit Counseling, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart, Nicor, Country Insurance, D'Arcy Motors and Aldi joined us this year. Many Career Specialists were at hand to present to the students all aspects of their profession. Teachers, policemen, FBI agents, models, counselors, chiropractors, nurses, automotive professionals, and photographers only name a few!

Here are some of the people students were able to talk with during their experience:

• Sandy Ragland, Nurse, St. Francis Hospital (Guest Speaker)
• Larry Olson, Crime Scene Investigator, Ill State Police
  Depart. (Guest Speaker)
• PDRM0051 Mark Griglione, Harris Bank (Reality Store)
• PDRM0016 Mark Cromwell, Aldi Food Store (Reality Store)
• PDRM0019 Left to right Joe Gorski, Sal Magama, Rick Fishbeck, D'Arcy
  Motors (Reality Store)
• PDRM0027 Joel Moore, Musician/Instructor, Lewis University (Guest
  Speaker)

For more information, please contact Barb Courter at
bcourter@learningcommunity202.org or 436-3200