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=Welcome to Mountville Elementary School, Hempfield School District, Mountville, PA=

**Biography:**
====Dave is a graduate of Penn State in Food Science. Dave worked as an intern in the Hershey Foods Technology Center and for Nabisco in their Research and Development Center. He began his career in a family milk processing plant that created products for many well known companies such as Dairy Queen, Wendy’s, Burger King, and Arby’s. He was the company President before it was sold. He was on the Board of Directors of the Food Industry Group (FIG)working to encourage high school students to choose Food Science as the primary study in college and their career. Currently, as Business Development Sales Manager, he is working on projects as far away as Russia and as close as Columbia, PA. Turkey Hill is known locally for their Iced tea, Ice Cream and Milk and they want to expand that image to include Ice Cream Cakes, frozen drinks and more. They are working on developing Turkey Hill Creameries that use ice cream on marble slabs, in soft serve, in hand dipped, and in milkshakes. There are already 2 in place, one at Kutztown University and one at Millersville University. They are working on a Chocolate World like destination in Columbia, PA that will be an Experience Center for Turkey Hill. Dave currently lives near Harrisburg, PA with his wife, Mary Ann, also a Food Scientist who is currently employed in the research and development lab at Turkey Hill, and his 2 sons.====

Description of Experiment:
With food safety at the top of every company’s priority list, Dave will show how easily food and food contact surfaces can become contaminated by showing a SPC (Standard Plate Count) of bacterial growth from both washed and unwashed hands.

Description of Jobs:
Many Options with a Food Science Career. Specialties within Food Science can use your biology skills, your chemistry skills, your math skills, and certainly your English skills. Examples of careers include:
 * Product Development
 * Food Ingredient Development
 * Quality Assurance
 * Production / Operations Management
 * Sensory Evaluation
 * Food Sales
 * Food Ingredient Sales
 * Food Transportation
 * Food Engineering
 * Packaging Engineering
 * Food Law/Regulatory