This career day for sophomores has been made possible through a partnership between

• O’Brien County Economic Development Corporation,
• Sheldon Chamber & Development Corporation,
• Northwest Iowa Community College, and
• Iowa State University Extension & Outreach

as well as the following school districts:

• Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Community Schools,
• Sheldon Community Schools,
• South O’Brien Community Schools, and
• Sibley-Ocheyedan Community School District.

Healthcare and Construction sectors were added in order to accommodate additional students. The following business partners will make it possible for our students to see a wide variety of careers available in O’Brien County:

• DK Plastics, Archer
• JTV Manufacturing, Sutherland
• Maintainer, Sheldon
• Mill Creek Machining, Paullina
• Rosenboom Machine & Tool, Sheldon
• White Wolf Web, Sheldon
• Ziegler CAT, Sheldon

• Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital
• Prairie View Campus
• Sanford Sheldon Hospital
• Village Northwest
• NCC (to tour construction of house)

Business tours will take place from 9:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. with a break for lunch at the NCC LLRC from 11:45 a.m. until 1:15 p.m.

Steven Brockshus will be the featured speaker at 12:40 p.m. Steven is a 2011 Sibley-Ocheyedan graduate who served as a State FFA Officer, Iowa FFA State President and in 2013 was elected as the National FFA Vice President. Mr. Brockshus is a 2017 graduate of Iowa State University with a degree in agricultural education and entrepreneurship. Steven is an entrepreneur himself, who started Terva, an ag tech business that is building ‘Zillow’ for farmland.