Career Day was Amazing!

Yesterday, Chets Creek 5th graders got a treat, members of the Jacksonville community took time off of work to visit us and share information about their careers. We had an amazing mix of talented professionals visit us! Some of our guests were: Michelle Jacobs a meteorologist from NBC and ABC, Mr. Appleby our favorite FBI agent, Officer Bingham from the Jax Beach Police Department and Mako the crime Dog, Dr. Willingham a transplant surgeon, Ms. O'Neil a nurse, Mr. Joswick a computer genius, Mrs. Surrency a nurse who brought along the ambulance from Wolfson's Children's Hospital, Mrs. Acosta from a credit union, Mr. Nash a firefighter from Jax Beach Fire Department, Mr. Powell from Swason Fire Protection, and Commander Almon and friends from the U.S. Navy! We also had a Navy Helicopter piloted by Commander Metcalf land on our Baseball field! The entire day was such a great experience and we learned many things.

Here are some of the new facts we learned on Career Day:

1. News Anchors have great shoes!
2. When a Helicopter lands near you, close your eyes!!
3. Drug sniffing dogs don't like ambulance sirens!
4. You can have new kidneys put into your body!
5. Credit Unions can tell when you pay with counterfeit money!
6. Not all fires can be put out with water...
7. Don't mess with the FBI.

We want to thank all of our visitors for taking time from the busy schedules to share with us at Chets Creek! Career day was an awesome experience for the fifth grade and we have Ms. Symons and Miss Wickert to thank as well for organizing everything for us!!