EXCEL TECC 2007 Competitions

*STUDENTS WIN-WIN-WIN!*

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!

*EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION*
Early Childhood Education students attended the FCCLA [Family, Career and Community Leaders of America] Regional Skills Competition at the University of Akron on Saturday February 24, 1007. Congratulations to the following winners: Chrissy Nemeth (Mayfield senior) - Gold Medal in Teacher Resource Kit; Melanie Engbert (Mayfield junior) - Silver Medal in Teacher Resource Kit; Janine Johns (Mayfield junior) - Silver Medal in Language & Literacy; Geniese Terrell (Mayfield junior) - Silver Medal in Language & Literacy	Early Childhood winners [L-R] Melanie and Geniese
*HORTICULTURE*
STATE FLORICULTURE CONTEST Erin Pryatel, Prentice Roy, Nick Birr, and Lea Jordan qualified to participate at the State Floriculture contest held at ATI/OSU. The team placed tenth out of 27 teams. Erin placed 13 th out of 125 student participants. Lea placed 44 th and Nick and Prentice placed 52 nd and 53 rd respectively.Congratulations team! NORTHEAST SKILLS CLASSIC William Marcrum, Chris Cortez, Nevan Lovano, Constantine Boltyansky, and John Mascaro participated in the NE Skills Classic. William received a second place for walk-behind mower operation and a first place finish for plant identification. John and Chris placed second for tree transplanting . Nevan competed in the turf grass maintenance section while Constantine competed in the assembl y section. DISTRICT 3 FLORICULTURE CONTEST Horticulture students completed a 50 question objective test, identified over 150 plants, flowers and supplies, judged plant quality and constructed several designs for evaluation. Gates Mills Horticulture took Second Place Team: Erin Pryatel (Mayfield), Nick Birr (Mayfield), Prentice Roy (Brush) and Lea Jordan (Solon). They have qualified to compete at the state level next month at The Ohio State University. Over 100 students participated in the Floriculture Contest. Individual results are as follows: Erin Pryatel (Mayfield) - 2nd place Nick Birr (Mayfield) - 8th place Prentice Roy (Brush) - 12th place Lea Jordan (Solon) - 14th place Michelle Weissman (Beachwood) - 15th place Bob Chapline (Brush) -19th place Peter Martin (Beachwood) - 31st place Alicia Richards (Mayfield) - 32nd place Anthony Pivonka (Brush) - 33rd place Megan Luczywo (Chagrin Falls) - 34th place Mario Mazzarino (Mayfield) - 62nd place Floriculture Team 2007: [Bottom row L-R] Mario, Megan; [Middle row L-R] Alicia, Lea, Michelle, Erin; [Back row L-R] Peter, Anthony, Bob, Prentice and Nick. CLEVELAND HOME & GARDEN SHOW The following Horticulture students were awarded ribbons for their floral designs at the Cleveland Home & Garden Show: Bob Chapline (Brush) - 1st place for design sprouting from an Irish cap Tricia Larson (Mayfield) - 2nd place for a Pot of Gold including Bells of Ireland and the rainbow Megan Luczywo (Chagrin Falls) - 3rd place for her Irish wedding bouquet Anthony Pivonka (Brush) - Honorable Mention for his arm bouquet NORTHEAST OHIO TECH PREP SHOWCASE Horticulture students were winners in the Tech Prep Showcase: 2nd place went to the team of Erin Pryatel (Mayfield), Megan Luczywo (Chagrin Falls) and Bob Chapline (Brush) for 'OH Gnats! A Search for the Best Management Techniques'. Instructor Becky O'Linn was their advisor. 3rd place went to the team of Constantine Boltansky (Mayfield), Nick Wolf (Brush), Nick Martines (West Geauga) and John Mascaro (Chagrin Falls) for 'Rebuilding a Mist Bench'. Instructor Ed Tuhela was their advisor. John, Nick M, Nick W, Constantine at Tech Prep Showcase / Megan, Bob, Erin at Tech Prep Showcase Nick with display for 'Rebuilding a Mist Bench' STATE NURSERY AND LANDSCAPE COMPETITION The following Horticulture students competed against 40 teams at this competition in Columbus on January 23-24, 2007: Nick Wolf (Brush), William Marcrum (Mayfield), Andrew Ferreri (West Geauga) Constantine Boltyansky (Mayfield), Jace Schmidt (West Geauga) and Nick Martines (West Geauga) placed 14th as a team; Jordan Centofanti (Brush), Dan O'Donnell (Brush), Thomas Cox (Brush), Eddy Jerome (Brush) and Emin Abdullayev (Brush) placed 16th as a team. Out of over 250 students competing the following are individual results: Nick Wolf (Brush) - 22nd place Jordan Centofanti (Brush) - 50th place Dan O'Donnell (Brush) - 54th place William Marcrum (Mayfield) - 69th place
*MARKETING - JEAN GETZ*
Ten students competed in the DECA Career Development Conference in Columbus on March 9 & 10. Two students made the top 10 in their events: Brittany Jackson (Aurora) and Erica Henkin (Beachwood). Erica Henkin came in 2nd Place in the Retail Merchandising Series Event and has advanced to the International DECA Career Development Conference to be held in Orlando, Florida on April 28 to May 1. There will be 14,000 students attending. The Retail Merchandising Event is sponsored by Johnson & Wales University. She will receive $750.00 for placing 2nd in the event. She has received $2,750.00 so far from J &W from being in Marketing and being active in DECA. She also has received $3,000 from J&W for the Dean's Choice Scholarship. All of these scholarships are renewable per year.	Erika with 2nd place trophy
*COOPERATIVE BUSINESS INTERNSHIP*
Jeremy Saham is currently enrolled in the Cooperative Business Internship Program at Solon High School . He is an active member of Business Professionals of America Region 18 and won 3 rd place Banking & Finance contest at the Regional Conference in January, 2007. On March 8 and 9th , Jeremy traveled to Columbus , Ohio to compete in the BPA Ohio Association Skill Competitions and won 1 st place in the State of Ohio in the Banking & Finance contest. He went on to compete at the BPA National Conference which will be held in New York City.	Jeremy with a winning smile!
*COSMETOLOGY - MAYFIELD*
CONGRATULATIONS!! to the Mayfield Cosmetology senior students which scored 100% passage for all the class at their State Boards Certification in Columbus.
*CADD ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY*
SKILLS USA The following CADD students competed at Polaris Vocatinal Center on March 3, 2007 in regional Skills USA events: Ken Gardner (West Geauga) in Technical Drafting Joe Matovina (West Geauga) in Architectural Drafting Josh Bencke (Chagrin Falls) in Job Skill A Mike Buettner (West Geauga) took 1st place in Job Skill B
*CULINARY ARTS*
FCCLA REGIONAL SKILL EVENTS Twelve Culinary Arts students traveled to the University of Akron on February 24 for the FCCLA (Family, Career & Community Leaders of America) regional skill competitions. Silver Medal Winners: Todd Harris (Brush) Shannon Wood-Catell (Brush) Katelyn Burkeen (Brush) Joe Kozelka (Aurora) Rachel Biben (Aurora) Kelly Lange (Mayfield) Dustin Wolf (Mayfield) Toni Tenn (Mayfield) Cat Alaimo (Solon) Sean Driscoll (Orange) Gold Medal Winners: Allie Hammond (West Geauga) Matt Anderson (Solon) Allie Hammond advances to state competition in April to compete in the pastry arts category. CONGRATULATIONS & GOOD LUCK!! Slice of Rachel's cake	Rachel hard at work in the competition Allie from West Geauga in pastry arts Rachel from Aurora in pastry arts
INTERACTIVE MEDIA
NORTHEAST OHIO TECH PREP SHOWCASE & SKILLS USA Two Interactive Media seniors took 2nd place in the Tech Prep Showcase competition at Cuyahoga Community College for their display/presentation of 'Consortium Promotional Video'. This project also earned them a Silver Medal in the Skills USA competition: Vincent DeCapite (Mayfield) Tiffany Tse (Richmond Heights) Also competing at Tech Prep Showcase were seniors Catherine Crichlow (Solon), Galina Rivina (Beachwood) and Tony Cavalier (Solon) with their project: 'Extreme Makeover: Web Edition'. Catherine and Tony also took a Silver Medal for this project at the Skills USA state competition. Vincent and Tiffany with Silver Medal for Skills USA competition.	Vincent and Tiffany with 'Consortium Promotional Video' at Tech Prep Showcase Catherine, Galina and Tony with 'Extreme Makeover: Web Edition' at Tech Prep Showcase
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PROGRAMMING
SKILLS USA ITP senior Alexandar Flagg (Mayfield) took 1st place in Related Mathematics and moves on to State Competition in Columbus on the last weekend of April. The following ITP junior students accomplished First Place Team & the Gold Medal in Tech Prep Showcase category at Skills USA for their project titled 'The Original Grill/C&C Music Service' which was completed for an actual client: Byron Brown (Brush) Roland Cross (Brush) Lamar Hinchen (Solon) Walter Moore (Solon) The team advances to the National Skills USA Competition in Kansas City in June. They were the only team to earn Gold from the Ohio North Central Region this year. CONGRATULATIONS & BEST OF LUCK! OHIO COLLEGE TECH PREP SHOWCASE On Tuesday, March 13th the Senior ITP Team of Taylor Dolezal (Mayfield), Dima Lyner (Solon), Doug Fuhrer (Aurora) and David Hubrins (Brush) earned a First Place Award in the Information Technology Division at the Ohio College Tech Prep Showcase held at Cuyahoga Community College for their project, “The Wildcat Youth Football Club” dynamic web-based application. The IT division had 39 total team registered.
*MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES*
SKILLS USA On Tuesday, March 13th ; the Senior Medical Technologies Team of Carolyn Straub (Mayfield), Sammi Messina (Mayfield), Katie Niedzwiecki (Brush) and Nicole Balogh (Brush), under the direction of Dr. Karen Hale, earned a Third Place Award among a strong field of 25 teams at the Ohio College Tech Prep Showcase held at Cuyahoga Community College for their outstanding project “C-Diff, The Next Epidemic.”