On October 9th, 2025, Suffield High School hosted its annual College and Career Fair, hosting over one hundred universities and businesses so students could explore all their post secondary options. No matter what path students might want to take in life, the College and Career Fair has what they are looking for. The most popular colleges proved to be the University of Connecticut, Providence College, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. Along with the colleges present, the businesses that students could explore included the Ironworkers’ Union, Suffield Fire and Police Departments and Suffield Parks and Recreation.
Autumn Hirsch, Admissions Officer from Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire explained her connection to the college fair and students: “I love it. I love getting to interact with students. I have younger siblings, so they’re about your guys’ age, so it’s a good time.”
This event has been very helpful for students across various grades who don’t know what avenues their postsecondary experience could hold for them. Throughout the years that this event has been held, Suffield High students have been inspired and been given ideas about new colleges and various majors.
However, the College Fair aspect has been going on longer than the Career Fair aspect. In 2023, the career booths were introduced, including a photography business, a yoga studio and various unions. This was a very beneficial move, especially for our Suffield community. This is because of the abundance of agriscience students planning on entering the trades or a career rather than going directly into college.
This event has been infinitely beneficial to the students and staff as students begin to contemplate their postsecondary options at this event. The main demographic that benefits the most from this event is the juniors, as they are very soon deciding what colleges they want to apply to and what businesses they want to go to in the future.
“The college fair is very helpful to me picking out colleges I want to go to” said Suffield junior Jack Tautic. “I’ve never felt like I’ve been able to narrow things down in terms of colleges I’ve wanted to attend, or what I even want to major in, but the fair has really helped me with doing all of those things.”
Being involved in the National Honor Society, I had the special privilege of helping escort the admissions officers to their tables and talk with them one on one. What fascinated me about these interactions was that they loved being able to interact with students just as much, if not more, than the students like to interact with them. Whether it was their first day on the job or they’ve been doing it for years, they said they loved doing it and we as a school thoroughly enjoyed having them.
