Career Day



Lone Star College Cy-Fair will be hosting a Career Day on Monday, May 1, 2017. The event will take place in the Instructional Part of the CASA building in Tech 102 and will start at 10am and will end at 2pm.
The purpose of Career Day is to give students at Lone Star College Cy-Fair Campus an idea for what they would like to do in the future. In order to do this we brought four people from different career fields to discuss what led them on the path they are on today as well as any obstacles they had to overcome and to give advice to any students that still don’t know what to make of themselves. Our guests include Jill Larsen, Joyce Westerdahl, Tracy Keogh, Kathleen Hogan and Mia Parker all who have years of experience in their field and have a ton wisdom to bestow upon the many students at Lone Star College Cy-Fair.


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