Every year, the third, fourth and fifth graders of Jefferson Elementary School visit area businesses to learn about careers.

Dinah Eslinger, teacher, said the kids look forward to the mini lessons every year.

“We try to stick with quite a few of the same places. Sometimes when we call the following year, they don’t want to do it or something came up and they can’t do it, so we do add in a couple new ones every year,” she said.

This year, students got to pick from Dakota Sew & So, Players Bar and Grill, Logo Magic, High Plains Dental, DSU Science, the local fire department, Southwest Grain, Southwest Water, Dickinson Ready Mix and DSU agriculture and rodeo.

“A lot of them really like to go and do things where they work with food or they get to learn about making food … I went to the vet one year, and the kids I went to the vet with loved going to the vet. Those are pretty popular ones, so is like the police station and going to see what police officers do,” Eslinger said.

Adyn Emard, third grader, and Jesse Burman, fourth grader, chose DSU’s agriculture and rodeo where they got to practice roping and barrel rolling.

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