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Pot Spring Elementary: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

The local elementary school celebrates it's bi-annual Career Day Friday with local professionals across 30 different fields.

The sentiment of parents telling their children “you can be anything you want to be when you grow up” is alive and well at Pot Spring Elementary.

More than 30 working professionals ranging from video game developers to local politicians are scheduled to speak and inspire at the Timonium school’s Career Day celebration Friday.

“Career Day will help expose the students to new career opportunities and help them make connections between the skills they are learning in school and the world of work” said Fifi Kutson, the school’s guidance counselor, in a release.

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Melissa Whatley, a Pot Spring PTA member and advisor to the elementary school’s Student Council Council Association, said “I think it’s important for them to see what they’re learning really has some application in the real world.

“At this point, learning things about math and science—you could be an astronomer, or a video game designer,” she added, nodding to two of Friday’s planned presenters. “[Career Day] is meant to give them a whole range of anything is possible.”

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Presenters will spend the morning going classroom to classroom to speak to this students.

Notable presenters include County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, County Councilman Todd Huff, State Sen. Jim Brochin and Towson University mens' basketball coach Pat Skerry, among others.


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