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January 23, 2015 CapitalPress.com Career fair highlights options for students 15 Spokane Ag Expo By MATTHEW WEAVER Capital Press See ATI & JTI at the Show! Matthew Weaver/Capital Press Spokane Seed Co. quality systems coordinator John Zamora speaks with students about jobs in agriculture during the career fair at last year’s Spokane Ag Expo. The Expo will offer a career fair for students at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 5. chanics, et cetera,” Skoog said. “They will also come to them with strong values and work ethic that will be an asset to their company. These students who wear the blue jacket of the Na- tional FFA Organization are the future of our country and are the cream of the crop.” Students who go through the career fair will also get a ticket to enter a drawing for iTune cards. The career fair will be in one of the new breakout rooms near the new north entrance of the Spokane Convention Center. Event sponsors are Carpenter, McGuire & DeWulf; Wheeler Industries Inc., and Washington Tractor Inc. COLFAX, WA • on the Walla Walla Hwy (509) 397-4371 1-800-831-0896 WALLA WALLA, WA • 304 N. 9th (509) 525-6620 1-800-525-6620 Website: www.jti.com • E-Mail: jti@colfax.com ROTATE CROPS FOR PROFIT CANOLA Roundup Ready :: Clearfield :: Conventional Evenings: Terry Largent (208) 875-0935 or Mobile (509) 336-1344 Dan Helbling (208) 882-0200 or Mobile (509) 336-1346 Bob Kerns (509) 336-1342 • Ray Steele (509) 540-9009 Nick Lyons (509) 540-0058 “JTI, Y OUR A GRICULTURAL H UB O F T HE I NLAND E MPIRE ” SUNFLOWERS :: SAFFLOWER CAMELINA :: TRITICALE PLOW-DOWN MUSTARD Increase your wheat yields, break disease cycles and reduce weeds with spring and winter crop rotations Take Advantage of the exploding local BioFuel market opportunities Spectrum Crop Development :: Ritzville, WA Enjoy domestic marketing opportunities and try out alternate crops before foreign nations’ over-production forces you to grow other commodities. Curtis 509-659-1757 Todd 509-641-0436 SPAE15-2/#14 TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR TODAY’S AGRICULTURE Authorized Dealer for: THE DALLES, OR 3002 E. 2nd St. COLFAX, WA 425 Walla Walla Hwy 541-298-6277 509-288-4581 WALLA WALLA, WA Jody Boyd 304 N. 9th Ave. 509-592-9577 Jason Wilson Travis Hillman SPAE15-2/#14 FFA members will go from learning about career options at the Spokane Ag Expo and Pa- cific Northwest Farm Forum to meeting potential employers. The Expo offers a career fair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, following the FFA pre- sentation on the many opportu- nities agriculture presents. Many teenagers are unaware of the career opportunities in agriculture, so Expo organizers reached out to businesses to talk about the many careers that are available. In addition to farm- ing and ranching, they include accounting, legal, marketing, finance, technology, sales, ma- chinery design and maintenance and management. “Our goal is basically to en- lighten the high school students about the tremendous oppor- tunities there are,” said Myrna O’Leary, director of the Expo. O’Leary said 600 to 700 stu- dents typically attend the FFA presentation. She encourages FFA advisers to have their stu- dents attend. “There will be plenty of time to go through the career fair and hit the show floor, too,” she said. “Whenever my students can see the opportunities that may be available to them in the ag industry, they then can see themselves in those careers,” said Allen Skoog, adviser for the Cheney, Wash., FFA. “The possibilities in the industry open up to them in their minds. This is especially true for nontraditional career opportunities for women and minorities.” Students can see the applica- tion of their learning in school in many areas represented during the career fair and the Expo, Skoog said. “Students should consider a career in agriculture because it is so diverse and the science, mar- keting, business and communi- cation skills they learn in school in their ag course work (relate) directly to industry,” he said. “Employers should know that these students will come to them with knowledge in communication, sciences, me-