Burly boys strolled down the hall in full firefighter regalia, rolling down a stretcher with a fake body as they wandered through the clamor. Biomedical sciences students offered microscopes showing blood cells to wide-eyed junior high kids, and rows of silver colored structures lined the tables of the home classroom of the RBHS robotics team.

Students enrolled in classes at the Columbia Area Career Center got a chance to show their hard work and favorite classes.
“I get a lot of hands-on experience,” senior Electronics and Robotics II student Clarissa Curry said. “I’m not just sitting and taking notes. I plan on being an electrical engineering, so it translates well into my career path.”
Senior Nathaniel Acton, a student in Lab Technology, performed a gel electrophoresis lab, showing the middle schoolers one possible experiment the class performs.
“The best part of the expo was trying to get people interested in the subject. In my case, it was the science and lab classes,” Acton said. “We focused mostly on informing people on what we were demonstrating and how it pertained to our classes.”
CACC teacher Mrs. Christine Roberson teaches both Biomedical Sciences and Lab Foundations. Roberson persuaded her current students to come and help with the Expo to encourage the incoming round of students.
“The showcase is to make sure that people make informed choices about the classes that they take,” Roberson said. “I want students who come into the door to know what the class is about and that’s what they want.”

By Luke Chval