Sean Tamura, the career specialist at Camas High School (CHS), has a variety of important and impactful roles in the CHS community. Tamura loves to be an active member of CHS and have a positive impact on the lives of his students.

One of Tamura’s most important jobs is his role as the Career Specialist. This means that he helps students come up with ideas and a plan for where their life is headed after high school. Students are able to visit Tamura in his office located in the CHS library to get their post high school questions answered.

“I consider myself kind of a realist. Not a pessimist, but a realist,” Tamura said. “I’m just trying to make sure that students have realistic goals and plans.”

Outside of Tamura’s normal day job, he is involved in many different clubs and activities at CHS. He has taken on the role of being the advisor for the investment club, which holds meetings every Thursday during student support time (SST) during the 2025-26 school year. This club creates a fun environment for students to learn about different financial and investment topics.

“I really love it because it’s just not a huge time commitment for me, and pretty much everybody in there is there to just have fun,” Tamura said.

Additionally, Tamura is one of the advisors for the Link Crew club at CHS. This club allows junior and senior students to be paired with a group of freshman students with the goal of helping them get integrated into the school community.

“I feel like things have been going really well. There’s always awkwardness when you’re dealing with around twenty 14 year olds. But in general, I feel like it’s been going really well,” Tamura said. “I think if it’s not broken, don’t fix it and just look for small little opportunities to make it a little bit better.”

Another big club that Tamura has invested a lot of time into is mock trial. Mock trial is a club where students are able to roleplay a court case. They have had a lot of success this school year.

“Mock trial has been especially a lot of fun this year, since we did qualify for state. It’s been a few years since we were able to qualify. So that was really exciting,” Tamura said. “The zoom call after the district tournament, when we found out that we qualified, was probably the highlight.”

Some of Tamura’s other roles include assistant concessions manager where he worked to fill in gaps at CHS events. He is also the sophomore class associated student body (ASB) advisor. This year, the Glo-Lo dance was their big project.

Although he is not involved in this anymore, Tamura used to play a big role in coaching the unified basketball team.

“I felt like when I was coaching unified basketball, that was one of my favorites,” Tamura said. “I really miss it. You’d never leave unified basketball feeling unfulfilled.”

Tamura has put in seemingly endless hours of positive contribution for the CHS community. As someone that loves to involve himself in many different activities, he has been able to create a positive impact on a variety of students.

“If there was a way to clone myself so I could be in many places at once I would honestly be part of everything that I would have the opportunity to be part of,” Tamura said. “It’s just sometimes hard to be in multiple places at the same time. But other than that, I just really like being involved, and I think it’s a lot of fun.”

Despite the challenge of being in many places at once, students agree that his role in each of these activities is beneficial and unparalleled.

“He’s willing to kind of play whatever role and put on a different hat each day to help us out,” Olivia Steele, CHS mock trial member, said, “So, I say that my experience with Sean Tamura has been nothing but positive and funny.”

Based on student feedback, Tamura has a very balanced strategy of having fun and maintaining focus and organization.

“He is very happy and positive all the time, but if you’re not acting right he can also put you in your place,” Scott Johnson, CHS investment club member, said.

“Just making sure that students know that they can always come talk to me and hopefully they feel a little comfortable just expressing whatever they’re feeling,” Tamura said. “Because it can be scary if you don’t know what you’re going to do after high school or how you’re going to pay for it or even just the process of how to go about something like college admissions. I just want to be approachable for students.”

Through his various activities, Tamura has shown a commitment and passion for his career and a genuine desire to help the students.