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DCTC Landscape Students Participate in Student Career Days
A group of landscape students recently participated in the PLANET Student Career Days (SCD), held this year at the Michigan State University in Lansing on March 29-April 1. The SCD is an annual national event for landscape students sponsored by the Professional Landscape Network and hosted by a different college each year.
This year, 54 two-and-four year colleges from around the country took part, with some 700 student participants. The event includes tours, workshops, a career fair, social activities, and a series of competitive events like skid-steer operation, woody plant identification, landscape design, or business management. About 100 employers from around the country had booths at the career fair.
We are one of the small teams to participate: this year we brought eight students. But we have fun, make valuable employer contacts, meet students from around the country, and can hold our head up during competitions. DCTC is the only program in Minnesota that participates in the annual SCD, and we have been doing so since 1985.
Above: Connie Sokolouski receiving her $1000 scholarship during a recognition ceremony for scholarship winners. PLANET has a foundation that selects scholarship winners on a competitive basis from submitted applications.
The team on a tour of the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, MI.
Above: Connie Sokolouski doing the Interior Design competition. She was 8th out of 50. Interior Design means designing an interior landscape.
Above: Second from left in the foreground is Christa Bitter, competing in the Personnel Management competion. In the background are the judges. The team consisted of students from 4 colleges, thrown together a few hours before the even, and presented cases studies they had to role-play before the judges.
Above: Will Richartz, our club president, identifying landscape pests in the Pest Management contest
Above: Dan Miller loading a mower unto a trailer in the Truck and Trailer competition
Above: Errik in the Wood Construction competition, where they had to build a garden bench. Errik had the 10th highest total score summed over his events of the 700 students competing
Above: Matt Wolfe examining a shrub in the Woody Plant Identification contest.
Above: John Fahey on left, Dan Miller on right, during the career fair, where about 100 firms from around the country were recruiting
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