Students Ready For Job Olympics
March 7, 3026
Story By: Justin Dickerson
Job Olympics preparation has kicked off here at William Chrisman. Students and faculty are busy preparing for March 8th, in hopes to regain another 1st place trophy for back-to-back titles.
Job Olympics is where special education students showcase how they are ready for future careers.
“Not many people really care about doing simple things like sorting laundry, bagging groceries, or folding pizza boxes, but for these kids it is everything. This helps prepare them for what they are doing after High School.” said senior Ronnie Cravens who was a volunteer at last years event.
For several of these students, there's a lot of pride in showing prospective employers that they can be independent and dedicated to work.
“These special and amazing students have been ready and developing job skills in their classrooms for weeks now, to prepare for college or careers after they graduate.” teacher Andrea Martin said. “All they need is for someone to give them a chance.”
Other tasks allow the students additional practice on how to interview for a job, fill out a job application and create and write a Word document on computers.
This fun spirited competition helps build pride and self confidence among teens who need to believe that they can make it on their own. The many schools who are involved in this at the end of the day are just there to have fun and give these students time to themselves to have fun.
Chrisman won last year’s Job Olympics.
Story By: Justin Dickerson
Job Olympics preparation has kicked off here at William Chrisman. Students and faculty are busy preparing for March 8th, in hopes to regain another 1st place trophy for back-to-back titles.
Job Olympics is where special education students showcase how they are ready for future careers.
“Not many people really care about doing simple things like sorting laundry, bagging groceries, or folding pizza boxes, but for these kids it is everything. This helps prepare them for what they are doing after High School.” said senior Ronnie Cravens who was a volunteer at last years event.
For several of these students, there's a lot of pride in showing prospective employers that they can be independent and dedicated to work.
“These special and amazing students have been ready and developing job skills in their classrooms for weeks now, to prepare for college or careers after they graduate.” teacher Andrea Martin said. “All they need is for someone to give them a chance.”
Other tasks allow the students additional practice on how to interview for a job, fill out a job application and create and write a Word document on computers.
This fun spirited competition helps build pride and self confidence among teens who need to believe that they can make it on their own. The many schools who are involved in this at the end of the day are just there to have fun and give these students time to themselves to have fun.
Chrisman won last year’s Job Olympics.