PERHAM
— Getting hands-on experience is crucial when you’re learning anything, especially when what you’re learning is your future career. And the younger you get that experience, the better.
One Perham High School junior, Kallie Rourke, is getting that hands-on experience as a clinical assistant at Perham Family Dentistry through the school’s work-based learning program, with hopes of pursuing a career in dentistry post-graduation.
“Ever since I was younger, I’ve always loved going to the dentist’s office,” Rourke said. “I would like to beg my mom to take me back because I literally loved the dentist so much when I was a kid … The hygienist and the dentist — they were always so nice and so kind when I walked in, and they made me feel very comfortable there. I just thought it was so interesting looking at the…