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Career Expo: Event highlights jobs, adventures, robots

By: Dave Thompson|September 28, 2023
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    • Travis Mickelson, back and on the left, an employee with Nestle Purina in Clinton, Iowa, shows some of the features of a dog-like robot named “Spot,” shown in the foreground. “Spot” uses a special camera to locate possible problems with machinery in the factory. “Spot” was on display on Wednesday, Sept. 27. 2023, at the Career Expo in East Moline. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

    Hundreds of students and recent graduates were searching for that perfect job on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

    Some were looking for computer science jobs. Others were looking for careers in communications, store management or with the military. But no matter what job they were looking for, they were all in one place – the Career Expo that was sponsored by Quad Cities colleges and held at the…

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