DARTMOUTH – Students got an opportunity Wednesday to interact with RCMP and Halifax Regional Police officers in a program that allows students to learn more about jobs they may be interested in later in life.
Nineteen Grade 9 students from Graham Creighton junior high school have been participating in the Discovering Opportunities pilot program. The school is the only one in the Halifax Regional School Board with the program.
Teacher Cynthia Hellesoe said it works much like job shadowing.
The students played a game with the officers called ‘true or false’, where the audience had to figure out which of three statements was false.
The officers and students participating seemed to enjoy it.
The event was held at the Black Cultural Centre in Dartmouth where a video about black heritage was screened.
The students and police officers went on a scavenger hunt together in the centre.
Student Natalie MacDonald was paired with two members of the RCMP, matching pictures with phrases. She said she found the program enlightening.
“We go out on field trips a lot more than other kids, now we get to hang out with police officers. We’re going to a carpentry college, we’ve done cooking classes instead of school work and things like that,” she said.
MacDonald said she’s already made up her mind about her future.
“I want to be a heavy-duty mechanic.”
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