{"id":27184,"date":"2026-02-13T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27184"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:48:56","slug":"conservation-districts-represented-at-penn-states-earth-environment-and-sustainability-career-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27184","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Districts Represented at Penn State\u2019s Earth, Environment, and Sustainability Career Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27185\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27185\" class=\" wp-image-27185\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PennStateCareerFair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PennStateCareerFair.jpg 480w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PennStateCareerFair-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken by Shannon Wehinger.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>On February 11, 2026, PACD Director of Communications &amp; Education Shannon Wehinger traveled to Penn State\u2019s main campus in University Park, PA. PACD was invited to host a conservation district booth at the Penn State Earth, Environment, and Sustainability Career Fair.<\/p>\r\n<p>Shannon met with Penn State students interested in\u00a0careers and internships related to science, the environment, agriculture, and conservation. A sign with a QR code to the PACD jobs webpage was prominently displayed.<\/p>\r\n<p>The booth space was sponsored by the Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training (CACAT), which allowed conservation districts to have a booth at no cost to PACD.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Earth, Environment, and Sustainability\u00a0Career\u00a0Fair\u00a0featured employers focused on environmental science, sustainability, conservation, geosciences, geography, meteorology, and agriculture. The event is a collaboration between the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the College of Agricultural Sciences (Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science), Penn State\u00a0Career\u00a0Services, and Penn State Sustainability.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 11, 2026, PACD Director of Communications &amp; Education Shannon Wehinger traveled to Penn State\u2019s main campus in University Park, PA. PACD was invited to host a conservation district booth at the Penn State Earth, Environment, and Sustainability Career Fair. Shannon met with Penn State students interested in\u00a0careers and internships related to science, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}