The eighth grade class at Chambers Academy took part in East Alabama’s Region 8’s unique set of industries, businesses, non-profits and career opportunities, January 26, 2016, at Auburn University’s Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum. The Career Discovery Program is an initiative that brings together regional businesses and industry, non-profits and volunteers throughout the region to present an interactive, hands-on career exploration event for public, private and home-schooled eighth grade students. The program targets eighth grade students in order to offer them a fuller understanding of career and college choices available to them in Region 8 and to help prepare them to make course selection choices as they enter the ninth grade.
Vendors filled the halls of the coliseum and the court floor with vehicles and displays from organizations such as Alabama Power, multiple police departments, aviation, transportation along with Southern Union State Community College and Auburn University’s departments including the communication department that interested several students and prompted them to visit commercial vendors including a local radio station. “I liked going to the radio station and meeting the guys from FM 96.7. They pretended to put me and Donna on “live air’ and talk to each other,” said Lizzie.
Chambers Academy students had an exclusive opportunity to tour the Auburn University Football facility and to meet Montravius Adams. Adams, (Sr.) defensive tackle for Auburn, now eligible for the NFL draft, was one of the top defensive linemen for the Tigers. Adams encouraged students to do their best in school and spoke personally with several students and took additional time for photo opportunities. “It was pretty cool to meet an Auburn football player that starts. He was really tall, muscular and by his size, I thought his voice would be very deep, but he talked just like we do,” said Maci.