Visit to UI exposes students to job opportunities

CHAMPAIGN – Fourth-grader Virtuous Thomas pulled a lever on a machine about a half-dozen times and soon had a new key made.

She and 20 classmates from Washington Elementary School made their own keys Thursday morning in the locksmith shop at the University of Illinois Division of Facilities & Services. Then they tried them in a lock to see if they worked.

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