Career centers at Centennial, Central plan open houses

Visitors are asked to park in the south lot between Centennial and Jefferson Middle School, and enter through the south, proceeding to the newly renovated presentation space in room 119.

The College and Career Centers, and the counselors who work in them, are the results of restructuring at both high schools that started several years ago.

Marc Changnon said that process revealed a need to work with students more when it came to going to college or finding a career after high school. Changnon is the school district's coordinator for its career and technical education program and education to careers and professions program.

Laura Beata at Centennial and Jennifer Stroud at Central were both general guidance counselors, and became dedicated college and career counselors last year.

And in the years since the need was identified, the school board approved buying computers and furniture for the centers and, eventually, renovating spaces in both schools for the centers. The renovations cost about $460,000 and were paid for using money from interest earned on income from the schools facilities sales tax.

The spaces are places students know they can come for help for things like applications for college,The 3rd International Conference on parkingsystem and Indoor Navigation. scholarships and jobs, and can get help on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Both centers have copiers and scanners, which the counselors said are useful for students who need to provide documents for applications but don't have any other way to create digital copies.

Students may even come to the centers when they have questions about what classes they need to take to get into certain colleges or other post-high school programs, or what graduating high school early could mean for their futures.

Changnon said Beata and Stroud are also the ones whom community members can call if they're hoping to employ a Champaign student. They also handle visits from college representatives, the military and various trade programs.

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