Welcome Mandy Diller - New Career Awareness & Adult Ed. Coordinator

Tri Star is happy to introduce you to Mandy Diller, our new Career Awareness and Adult Education Coordinator. She has been on the job for a little over a month now, replacing the retiring Marcia Helentjaris who had worked in a variety of capacities in that position for 39 years. Diller began her career at Tri Star three years ago as the Teaching Professions instructor before deciding to make the switch to Career Awareness/Adult Ed. Prior to Tri Star, she spent 25 years teaching elementary and special education.

Diller’s responsibilities as the career awareness coordinator include working with all nine Tri Star member school districts. Her role is to support career awareness activities for kindergarten through grade 12 but she plans to focus on the lower grades where there is a greater need for these types of activities. Familiar with career awareness, Diller collaborated with Helentjaris on several career awareness activities during her time as Tri Star’s teaching professions instructor. The pair organized free craft and scavenger hunt nights for elementary students. She will continue established activities like the scavenger hunt, Tri Star’s public job fair, and the career notepad contest but will also organize additional activities to continue supporting career awareness with students. This year she plans eight craft/scavenger hunts for second, third, and fourth graders.

The other part of her position will be coordinating adult education classes. Tri Star has been offering adult classes for the last five years as a service to our local communities. Diller is currently offering four classes for adults ages eighteen and older: PLCs, machining/CNC, FANUC robotics, and welding. These 30-hour short-term classes offer enough training to help anyone be more employable – job seekers or incumbent workers who want to advance or change positions within their company. She is open to offering other types of adult classes if a need arises. Don’t hesitate to call her at 419-586-7060 or email her at mandy.diller@tristarcc.org

Diller says, “I’m looking forward to all the amazing opportunities to work with others and to help Tri Star continue to prosper in this position at Tri Star.”

Best wishes to Mandy as she takes on this new role! Have a great school year!