The Kosciusko-Attala Career Tech Center recently hosted a Reality Fair for all CTC students.
The Reality Fair is an interactive financial literacy tool for high school students. This is a unique opportunity for students to experience some of the financial challenges they will face when they start life on their own. It’s a hands-on experience in which students are given a career and then rotate through various stations requiring them to live with their monthly salary while paying for basic needs such as housing, utilities, transportation, clothing, food, and child care.
As always the CTC relies heavily on community partnerships in order to increase the effectiveness of the activity. As students visited each station, they were able to network with various community members.
Listed are the community members who participated along with their affiliate businesses:
- Robert Oswalt: MS National Guard
- Hunter Soparnecht: MS National Guard
- Semone Olive: Kosciusko School District
- Dena Kelly: Gentiva Hospice
- Pacey Regan: Kosciusko Junior High
- Tara Lindsey: Attala County School District
- Amy Terrell: Kosciusko School District
- Darren Milner: Attala County Bank
- Mary Katherine Dean: Kosciusko Attala Partnership
- Becky Hamilton: MSU Extension
- Beau Varner: MSU Extension
- Dawn Hodges: Attala County School District
- Jonathan Carnes: Career Coach Ethel High School
- Pam Patton: Career Coach McAdams High School
- Lyn McCafferty: Mississippi Tobacco Free
- Wendy Grace: Holmes Community College
- Melanie Myrick: Attala County School District (Retired)
- Gerald Simmons: Attala County School District (Retired)
- April Jones: Attala County School District
- Bob Cagle: OffShore (Retired).
- Angel Albin MacDonald, State Farm Insurance, for providing PayDay bars to all the students.