Wednesday, Apiil 10, 1991 ~ North Shore News - 39

WY student making dre

SOME STUDENTS are so
litthe motivated you have to
light a fire underneath them
to get them excited.

ream a reality

By Barbara Black

Mews Reporter

Wrest Vancouver Secondary stu-
dent Kyle Bubbs doesn’t have that
problem -- iistead, he pets ex-
cited about putling fires out.

As part ola career desclopment
program sponsered by West Van-
couver School District, Bubbs,
who is in Grade 12, makes the
West Vancouver Fire Department
his classroom) once a week to
study firefighting skills.

Th program wus established to
give students the opportunity to
gain practical experience in their
prospective careers while still at-
tending school. It allows students
to test their career interets und
abilities with real jobs and also to
develop an understatding of the
responsibilities of employment.

Students must complete an in-
schoo) course componeni before
proceeding to th. practicum in
their chosen field. Both sections
are designed, through cooperation
between teacher and employer, to f noes
camiplement each other. : " NEWS photo Pau! McGrath

Bubbs is in the second year of THE CAREER development program at West Vancouver Secondary schoool has been a success for all participants — teachers, stu-
his work experience program. dents and community sponsors. Grade 12 student Kyle Bubbs, (pictured far right) has been working once a week studying firefighting
While he does not altend fires, with the West Vancouver Fire Department. Pictured with Bubbs are (teft to right) Gayle Woeste, Assistant Chief John Rowlands, ca-
assistant chiel John Rowlands reer development coordinator Barbara Hunter and Lieutenant Don Steinbart.
says he has done almost

everything else required of a main thing. tt gives him a good with them to do inspections. community to actively participate — protected environment.
firefighter. insight into what we do here." The success of the program is in the education of the student. For Bubbs, the program seems
**He gets involved in all parts of As part of the 100 hours Bubbs thar it builds a relationship be-  Vhere is a smoother transition to have ignited his ambition to

firefighting except going to fires,’ has to complete, he has worked tween studies in) school and trom graduation to career, rather become a firefighter. After gradu-
Rowlands said. ‘‘He fits in quite with the municipality's fire employment in the “real world, than the “abyss that so many ation he plans to enrol in. fire-
well. He's imerested, that's the prevention team and has gone out Cooperative education allows the students face after 12 years ina training courses,

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