North High Career Expo for SASD Students

The North High Career Expo brought together over 1,500 students from the Sheboygan Area School District and 50 employers and community partners for a day filled with hands-on career exploration. Representatives from local businesses and industries, military branches, and colleges welcomed students into interactive booths and displays designed to spark curiosity about future careers and post-secondary opportunities.

📌 Take a one-minute look inside the event (video)

Events like the Career Expo help students gain a broader understanding of the types of careers offered by different employers. It also helps students connect with opportunities such as job shadows, nine-week co-op work experiences, and semester-long youth apprenticeships, where students earn high school credit and a paycheck. 

Recent North High graduate Cynthia Martinez returned to the Career Expo representing Lakeshore Community Health Care (LCHC). As a student, she benefited from events like this to explore career possibilities and plan her path after high school. During her senior year, Cynthia participated in a youth apprenticeship at LCHC, attending classes part of the day while gaining hands-on, real-world experience the rest of the day. After graduation, Lakeshore hired Cynthia as a full-time dental assistant. Cynthia shared, “Applying to Youth Apprenticeship and getting experience in the field helped me to know what I wanted with my career, where I want to go after high school, and my next steps into college.”

The Career Expo is held every other year, giving students a chance to attend as both underclassmen and upperclassmen as their career interests and post-secondary plans evolve throughout high school. 

This event is hosted by North High, along with Inspire Wisconsin and the Northeast Wisconsin Building and Construction Trades Council.