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

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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 storiesmith@ccs.k12.nc.us. 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

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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