“The students will have the opportunity to spend about 10 minutes in each classroom with the instructors and students doing a fun activity to give them a feel for what happens in that program area,” said Jennifer Dressler, career coach at the Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology.

“We have been doing tours with local fifth graders as far back as 15 years,” Dressler added.

The fifth grade tour is an opportunity to introduce Career and Technical Education when students begin to consider careers and explore options.

Each day this week, a different class of fifth graders from Mifflin, Juniata, East Juniata, and Sacred Heart will explore the Academy.

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Academy student, Emma Herwig, shows fifth graders, Remington Gisewhite, 11, Mason Dietz, 10, Blaize Heider, 11, and Axton Helm, 11, how their healthcare machine works.

Lewistown Intermediate School fifth graders attended the Academy Tuesday, traveling from room to room, except for the welding area, where they had the privilege to see what Academy students learn every day.

In the culinary classroom, students were hard at work prepping cookies to be baked.

In the health classroom, the students were shown different life-saving equipment and how it works.

In woodworking, students worked with various tools, and in cosmetology, they learned all about the color wheel.

Students built model cars in the automotive technician class.

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(From left) Lewistown Intermediate School fifth graders, Trey Myers, 11, and Shyanne St. John, 10, hammer some nails during the Academy fifth grade tours Tuesday.

They learned what it would be like to be a caregiver or educator in the early childhood classroom.

Agriculture production instructors guided fifth graders through a glimpse of farm life.

engineering and more.

Students also worked with robots in the electrical mechatronic classroom.

Fifth graders attended a total of 11 different classrooms today, and tomorrow another group of fifth graders will join the Academy students and teachers for a morning of fun and learning.

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(From left) Academy student Phoenix Bryon teaches fifth graders, Matthew Hartsock, 11, and Mason Royer, 11, how to roll cookie dough balls.

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Fifth graders Matthew Hartsock and Kaleb Swineford tie-dye.