Oak Forest HS Hosts Career Day

Dr. Michael Kaminski explains to interested Oak Forest High School students about the projects that Argonne National Laboratory is doing to impact energy used in everyday households in the future. These future projects are energy projects that are helping to translate solar energy into electrical energy in your house. Dr. Kaminski is a nuclear scientist with a real gift of speaking on the level the students at Oak Forest can understand. In addition to working at Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Kaminski is also an adjunct professor at University of Illinois, where he graduated with his PhD in 1998. Dr. Kaminski, a 1990 graduate of Oak Forest High School, is one of the many interesting and varied career speakers that visited Oak Forest High School for its annual Career Day. Other interesting speakers included a veterinarian who grossed out his audience by showing them a clear container of worms that were taken out of a dog. Then he went on to discuss how one could prevent that by regular doctor’s visits. More career speakers were police detectives and forensics specialists. In those rooms, students listened to stories of drug busts and stolen property seizures and proper ways to collect evidence. In the John Amico room, former OFHS students Danny Deane and Olivia Ontiveros explained things they liked about the John Amico Cosmetology program. Then they attached brightly colored hair extensions to volunteers from the audience. Other career speakers were a pediatrician, an accountant, various armed forces personnel, a chef, an electrical engineer, an event planner, a film editor, an optometrist, a nurse, and a physician’s assistant to name a few. Students really enjoyed learning about a variety of different careers and how each person got to the place they were. The Oak Forest High School Career Day is sponsored by the PPS Department, Project Manager Megan Couture, and Special Populations Supervisor Renee Mack.