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CTE Administrative Staff
Chip Lucas, Exec. Dir.
Carson Phipps, Coordinator
Taneka Williams, CP Coordinator
Instructional Management Staff
Kim Brewington, Coordinator
James Colombo, Coordinator
Michelle Davis, Coordinator
Diane West, Admin. Asst.
CTE Support Staff
Barbara Britt, Bookkeeper
Nancy Kebort, Admin. Asst.
Storie Smith, Admin. Asst.
Storie Smith Newsletter Editor
Phone: 910.678.2442
Fax: 910.678.2610 Email
http://www.cte.ccs.k12.nc.us
FEBRUARY 2016
C U M B E R L A N D C O U N T Y S C H O O L S What’s WORKING in
Career & Technical Education
February 1-29, 2016 has been designated as Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Month, in Cumberland County Schools. Nationwide awareness and celebration events
highlight the positive opportunities for career exploration and career skills development
that career and technical education offers to all students. The 2016 theme,
“Opportunities for Career Success” emphasizes the effectiveness of CTE in preparing
students to be both college and career ready by providing core academic skills,
employability skills, and technical, job-specific
skills.
Cumberland County Schools, along with local
business partners and community organizations,
are celebrating CTE Month with a variety of
activities promoting CTE programs to include
displays, community speakers, field trips, contests,
and career fairs. Students are able to put the
skills they have learned in the classroom into
practice in the community. Health Science classes
host blood drives and blood pressure checks,
Culinary Arts classes host cafés, and Criminal
Justice classes host mock trials.
Students gain a school-to-career connection as a
direct result of Career and Technical Education
programs creating the background of a strong,
well-educated workforce. CTE courses provide students practical hands-on experience
while incorporating meaningful applications of reading, writing, and mathematics.
Participation in Career and Technical Student Organizations, (FBLA, HOSA, FCCLA, FFA,
DECA, SkillsUSA, and TSA) affords students leadership opportunities while engaging them
in their communities.
We are ready to embrace this opportunity to educate students, parents and the community
about all of the services and benefits offered by CTE programs in our secondary schools.
Contact the CTE Facilitator in your high school to find out more about local CTE events in
your area.
CELEBRATING CTE MONTH:
OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAREER SUCCESS
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Alger b. wilkins high: Students will create a newsletter to highlight
technical careers and requirements and how to
pursue them. The newsletter can be published
on the school website, as well as, copies at the
front office and in the guidance office.
Cape fear high: Culinary Arts and Foods will have speakers
coming from: Johnson and Wales, The Art
Institute, and The Chef’s Academy.
Business classes will conduct an experiment in
which they will have to give up an item/device
that was created by a CTE career.
Douglas Byrd High: Broadcasting I – Several students will create
promotional videos to highlight CTE for the
YouTube channel.
Broadcasting II – Students will demonstrate
practice for SkillsUSA leadership competitions
consisting of job interviews, prepared speeches,
TV production skills, broadcast news and digital
film contests.
E.E. Smith High: FBLA extended an invitation to the entire school
to join in the live broadcast to kick off FBLA
Week.
CTE students will host a breakfast on February
5, 2016 and a luncheon on February 25, 2016 in
honor of Counselor Appreciation.
Gray’s Creek High: CTE “Evening of Etiquette” will be held at Huske
Hardware.
Marketing students will produce a commercial
informing the student body on upcoming events.
Jack Britt High: Health Science classes will hold their annual
blood drive along with a presentation of the
human body.
Accounting and Personal Finance class will
choose a career and prepare a PPT Presentation
that will incorporate education, training and
qualifications needed.
Pine Forest High: The Cumberland County Sheriff Department will
bring out the mobile jail for the Criminal Justice
students to review and they will also get a first
hand look at how inmates live in the detention
center.
FCCLA (School Wide Service Project) - “Help
the Homeless.” The school will collect hygiene
items and personal supplies that will be donated
to Operation InAsMuch.
CTE Month Highlights
GCHS Club Day
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CTE Month Highlights
Anne Chesnutt middle: Students created a bulletin board to represent
both Black History and CTE month.
TERRY SANFORD HIGH:
Career Management classes will participate in
Virtual Career Shadowing
TSA hosting faculty pageant for American
Cancer Society
Westover High: AOET- FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics
demonstration during lunches
Criminal Justice Day, February 18th
Mac Williams Middle: BCT classes will create a computerized
advertisement on careers that interest them.
CTE classes will come together to create a Graffiti
Wall that will be put on display in the cafeteria.
New century int. middle: Dress for Success Week
Recognize Students of the Month, Leadership
and Community Service Traits
Nick Jeralds Middle: Create a CTE Newsletter to send home with
students.
Business students will research (4) successful
people and write on their accomplishments (i.e.,
how they got started and how they became
successful)
Pine Forest Middle: 6th graders are creating digital posters to highlight
an engineering career.
7th grade students will choose a name for a
business career of their choice and use Microsoft
Publisher to create a business card for that
business.
Seventy First High: HSE Students will make and deliver valentines for
residents of Autumn Care.
CTE students will create a spreadsheet showing
charts of pay in different career clusters.
South View High: Record and profile CTE Classes on Tiger TV
(SVHS television news program)
Health Science students will sponsor a school-
wide blood drive.
Westover Middle: Students are creating posters about STEM.
FACS has a parent speaker addressing students
about Exploring Careers.
Gray’ s Creek High School
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On January 9th, 2016, Mrs. Donna Allen's Health
Science II Honors students held their inaugural Inhale
Courage, Exhale Hope fun 5K walk/run at Cape Fear
High School.
This event was a project to raise money, awareness
and education about lung cancer. They chose to put
on this event as some of the students lost parents,
grandparents and other loved ones to lung cancer.
The students designed the t-shirts that were worn
that day and sold the t-shirts to help raise money.
The students obtained several, in-kind items for this
walk. Starbucks donated coffee, Krispy Kreme
donated wonderful doughnuts, and the Renaissance
Day Spa donated a gift basket that was raffled off on
the day of the race. Astra Zeneca drug company
donated $1,000 to their cause and the students raised
$3,430 for a total of $4,430 going to the Lung Cancer
Initiative of North Carolina.
We are looking forward to next year's event.
#COLTPRIDENEVERSTOPS!!
Article submitted by Donna Allen, RN, HSE Instructor
Front of T-shirt Back of T-shirt
CFHS Supports 5K Walk/Run
Career Academy Spotlight
John Jones, Navy Federal Credit Union
In honor of Career and Technical Education Month, the
Academy of Finance at Douglas Byrd High School
sponsored a guest speaker for business classes.
Mr. John Jones, branch manager from Navy Federal Credit
Union was the honored guest. He spoke to the students
about personal banking, retirement funds, and future savings,
as well as car buying.
Students were given a wealth of information that will help
them with their future finances and savings options.
Article submitted by Tracy Hill, BFIT Instructor
FEBRUARY 2016 What’s WORKING in
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On Saturday, December 5, 2015, the CCS’
Technology Department joined forces with the
Academies of Information Technology from
Gray’s Creek and Pine Forest High Schools
for the third annual CCS “Computer Refurbish
Project.”
The Technology staff and academy students
refurbished dispositioned school computers and
donated them to students who did not have home
computers. One hundred fifty adult and student
volunteers made sure 500 refurbished computer
systems were given to deserving families in
Cumberland County.
To help with the costs involved in this project, the
SkillsUSA chapter from Pine Forest High School
was awarded a Lowe’s grant in the amount of
$10,000. The generosity of Lowe’s will go a long
way in keeping this worthwhile project going for
years to come.
Article submitted by Elaine Vallery, AOIT Director
3rd Annual Refurbish Day
Do you have any CTE news or information to share? We would love to hear
from you about CTE accomplishments in our schools, with our students, and our
teachers. Community projects, volunteer work, and personal achievements
relating to CTE are great reads. Please submit any highlights, or articles in for
consideration to [email protected]. Be sure to send the article in
Word format, include some background information, an article heading, pertinent
details and a relevant picture.
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Fire Academy Receives PNG Grant
It is with excitement and genuine appreciation
that the Cumberland County Schools
Fire Academy announces that they received
a $1,500 grant from Piedmont Natural Gas.
This grant will be used to purchase digital
training aids and props that will allow academy
members to train in a real life environment.
Students that complete the curriculum in the
Fire Academy with hands-on equipment are
better prepared to enter into the fire science
career field.
Piedmont Natural Gas is very interested in continuing to partner with
Cumberland County Schools. While they cannot get corporate
approval for a field trip to their facility, they are more than willing to
come into our schools.
Below is a list of opportunities available to our students:
Offering guest speakers in our schools
Assisting with grant funding through PNG foundation
Providing volunteers for testing
Providing community service opportunities for our
students through Earth Day (April 22), Relay For
Life and City Rescue Mission
We were excited to learn that they have a large crime unit that is interested in opportunities to talk with our
Criminal Justice students. Ms. Thurman also indicated that she has five grants available to teachers/academies that
have her as a guest speaker. Douglas Byrd High School received a $1,500 grant last year for the Green Academy
and E. E. Smith High School received at $1,500 grant this year for the CCS Fire Academy.
We also discussed the WorkKeys assessment available to our CTE Concentrators. Ms. Thurman was interested to
know more about WorkKeys and how PNG may use this assessment for their hiring purposes. The PNG call center
is located above Hamrick’s clothing store on McPherson Church Road. Ms. Thurman indicated that starting pay at the
call center is $18 per hour and a college degree is not a requirement.
If you would like to have Piedmont Natural Gas come to your school to talk with your students, please contact your
CTE Facilitator. Chris Sanders and Barbara Crumpler will be most happy to assist with setting up a time and date.
Submitted by Barbara Crumpler and Chris Sanders, High School to Work Partnership Coordinators
Tammy Thurman
Community Relations Manager, PNG
Article submitted by Patricia Strahan, Fire Academy Director
CCS Schools Partner with PNG
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The 2015-2016 game, FIRST® RES-QSM, is modeled
after rescue situations faced by mountain explorers
all over the globe. Played by two Alliances of two
robots each, robots will score points by: “resetting”
Rescue beacons; delivering Rescue Climbers to a
shelter; parking on the mountain; and parking in the
Rescue beacon repair zone or floor goal.
Robots may also score points by retrieving debris
from the playing field and placing them in mountain
or floor goals, and also by hanging from a pull-up bar
during the last 30-seconds of a match.
The Academy of Engineering at Westover High
School has three FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics
Teams, #9061, #9062 and #9063. All three Teams
have been designing, building and programming
robots for competition since the beginning of school.
In January they had the opportunity to test their
robots at two FIRST Tech Challenge Competitions.
The first competition was held on Saturday, January
16th at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh.
There were 23 teams from around the state at the
competition. At the end of five qualifying rounds,
Team # 9061 Clawdettes, an all-girl team was ranked
in 3rd place and progressed to the semi-finals. They
did not advance to the championship round.
At the same competition, Team # 9063 Claws of
Steel received the “Think Award” which gave them
an invitation to compete in the North Carolina FTC
Aggieland Championship Competition. The Think
Award was given by the judges to the team that was
able to remove engineering obstacles through
creative thinking and who documented in their
Engineering Notebook, the journey the team took as
they experienced the engineering design process with
pictures, drawings and detailed documentation of all
stages of robot design during the building season.
The Engineering Notebook also had to include
entries describing underlying science, mathematics
and game strategies.
FIRST Robotics Teams: 9061 , 9062 , & 9063
Westover High’s FIRST Robotics Competitions
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The second FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) was held at Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill on January 30,
2016. All three Westover Robotics Teams competed. There were a total of 25 teams competing. Team #9061
Clawdettes won all five qualifying rounds and
ended up in 3rd place to advance to the semi-finals.
After six semi-final rounds, they lost to the
championship winners. The Clawdettes will
advance to the North Carolina FTC Aggieland
Championship Competition on February 20, 2016
in Greensboro.
Team # 9062 Jr. Clawbotz finished the qualifying
rounds in 6th place and advanced to the semi-finals.
They did not advance to the championship round.
Team # 9063 was ranked in 16th place after
qualifying rounds.
The Clawdettes were one of three teams that
were recognized for the “Rockwell Collins
Innovate Award.” Elements of this award include
elegant design, robustness, and “out of the box”
thinking related to design. Their Engineering
Notebook had to document the design process
and how the team arrived at their design solutions.
Article submitted by Jeannie Johnson, Director of AOET, WOHS
Westover High’s FIRST Robotics Competitions
SCHOLARSHIPS DUE DATES
March 25 — Florence Rogers Scholarship
April 15 — FTCC Scholarship
FEBRUARY 2016 What’s WORKING in
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Howard Health & Life Sciences High School
houses an innovative approach to learning health
careers. The curriculum utilized at Howard, from
the Paxton Patterson program, is one of two in the
state of North Carolina. Students are able to learn
about fourteen different health careers through a
hands-on, team approach. Students utilize
technology on a daily basis to learn more about a
specific career and perform tasks that are not only
engaging, but accurate to the career field with the
same tools the professional would utilize. Students
are able to explore various careers to include:
dentistry, sports medicine, ophthalmology, mental
health, veterinary medicine, speech therapy, nursing,
forensic science, emergency medical technician,
biomedical engineering, pharmacology, medical
imaging, clinical labs, and therapeutic services. In
addition to the learning within the classroom,
students are given ample opportunities for
supplementary learning. This year students have had
numerous guest speakers and work site tours on the
topics of dentistry, emergency medical services,
forensics, and much more.
This past December, students were given the
opportunity to learn about the various duties and
experiences of an EMT- Paramedic, as well as
explore their ambulance. One senior stated that,
“Captain Lee Westbrook and Lieutenant Sarah
Autry led a very interesting, informative, and
interactive presentation on emergency medical
services.” The students also had the opportunity to
ask questions. One student asked, "How did you
react to your first call?" Lieutenant Autry explained
the excitement and fear that one feels while on duty
and overall joy of knowing you are directly making
an impact on many lives. Afterwards, students had
the chance to take a look inside the ambulance and
were surprised by the amount of items kept on the
truck while still being spacious. Overall it was a fun,
educational experience for everyone. While in
January, students were able to shadow medical
professionals at Cape Fear Valley Hospital to include
nurses in various medical units, physical therapists,
radiologists, and even oncologists.
In February, students were invited to a work site
tour of the Fayetteville Police Department Forensics
Unit. Students were able to learn more about the
various tasks of the forensics unit and understand
how they utilize technology to recognize the syntax
of fingerprints for identification and how they are
able to determine the point of contact from a
murder weapon using trigonometry. Nonetheless,
learning is exciting, engaging, and innovative at
Howard Health and we are bridging the gap between
learning in the classroom and the local health
community.
Article submitted by LaKeisha Bradley, HSE Instructor
Howard Health Uses An “Innovative Approach” to Learning
Taneka Williams, former Chairperson of School Counseling at Jack Britt
High, has joined the Career and Technical Education Team serving as the
Career Pathways Coordinator. Filling the vacancy left by Pam Gibson
who transferred to FTCC in November, Taneka will be the community
college liaison as well as working with High School to Work Partnership
coordinators who serve as liaisons between schools and businesses where
students participate in work-based learning activities. Taneka received her
B. A. in English at North Carolina A & T State University, and her M. Ed. in
School Guidance and Counseling at Liberty University. We welcome
Taneka and look forward to the passion, knowledge, and resources she
will bring to our Central Services CTE Team!
CTE Welcomes Taneka Williams
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* CTE & CTSO UPCOMING EVENTS * DATE EVENT LOCATION
March 10 - 12 DECA State Conference Greensboro
March 11 SkillsUSA State Conference FTCC
March 15 - 17 FBLA State Conference Greensboro
March 31 - April 2 HOSA State Conference Greensboro
April 11 - 13 FCCLA State Conference Greensboro
April 12 Youth Entrepreneurship Conf. FSU
April 14 - 16 TSA State Conference Greensboro
April 19 - 21 SkillsUSA State Conference Greensboro
April 22 - 27 DECA Int'l. Career Development Conf. Nashville, TN
April 27 CCS-CTE Honors Banquet Crown Center