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Upcoming career expo focuses on students who live around the airport

(Left to right) Curtis Evans, Jeremiah Williams and Siera McMullin listen to a college recruiter during a college and career expo hosted at Fredrick Douglass High School, in Atlanta, on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, as part of a program targeting recent Atlanta high school graduates.
(Left to right) Curtis Evans, Jeremiah Williams and Siera McMullin listen to a college recruiter during a college and career expo hosted at Fredrick Douglass High School, in Atlanta, on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, as part of a program targeting recent Atlanta high school graduates.
By Ben Brasch
Oct 16, 2019

A Friday career expo is aimed at students around the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport area.

The Aerotropolis Atlanta Education Collective will have more than 20 businesses explain the following industries: aerospace, logistics, agriculture, multimedia production and biology.

The Fulton County School District said this will be for students in 11th and 12th grade.

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The exposition will be at the Georgia International Convention Center, 2000 Convention Center Concourse, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Students from Banneker, Creekside, Langston Hughes, and Westlake high schools will join Clayton County students for the event.

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