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HAPPENING NOW:

Performing Arts Academy
LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL
FEBRUARY 12-13-14 2010
Chagrin Falls Performing Arts Center
Studio Theatre
400 E Washington St, Chagrin Falls
Friday & Saturday: 7:30pm
Sunday: 2:00 & 7:30pm
click here for press release

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Beachwood Marketing
T-Shirt Fundraiser
“Coming Together…One Shirt at a Time” is the slogan of the latest social marketing experiment by Beachwood Business and Marketing classes. Using a simple 100% organic cotton shirt that the students designed, they are creating a comprehensive marketing plan to sell the shirts to the entire Beachwood community, past and present around the world. Using the students new website www. beachwoodapparel.com, customers can place their orders online and pay using Paypal. Shirts will ship in time for the Holiday Season 2009.

APPLICATIONS and PROGRAM INFORMATION
FOR 2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR

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Planning for your CAREER - click here for tips and information on high school and post-secondary options that will help you find the right career for you

Plan with the PLAN - use the PLAN/ACT test results, World of Work or Holland Codes to see what career fields &/or career tech programs will be a good match for students - click here

AWARDS 2009-2010

CONGRATULATIONS to EXCEL TECC
Principal's List and Honor Roll Students
for the First Quarter 2009-2010
click here to see the Lists

WINNERS - Summer 2009 National Competitions
CONGRATULATIONS to all Excel TECC winners

In June 2009, Excel TECC students competed in Skills USA National Championships in Kansas City, Missouri, with the following accomplishments:

In the Information Technology Tech Prep Showcase competition the team of ITP 2009 graduates Greg Gutmann, John Kilbane and Jason Myers with their project bubbaCore earned the Gold Medal and 3rd consecutive SkillsUSA National Championship for Excel TECC ITP. 

Placing 5th Nationally in the SkillsUSA Tech Prep Health Science competition was the team of Maurice Chazaro, Melissa Fuerst and Lauren Kraska, all Mayfield 2009 graduates of the Medical Technologies program, instructor Dr. Karen Hale. Their project, ASSISTING DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE, was sponsored and supported by University Hospitals.

The Skills USA National Championships are represented by state and regional champions from all 50 states, several territories and Washington D.C.

[L] Teacher Ron Suchy [L-R] with Gold Medalists Greg, John and Jason;
[R] Melissa, Maurice and Lauren with their display

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

 NJHA (National Junior Horticulture Association) Competition
October 16-20, 2009
Held in Harrisburg – Hershey Pennsylvania.  The students took a national level completion along with 160 other students, representing 19 states, in the FFA division. 

Third Place Team: Chris Yagour (West Geauga), Steve Clucas (West Geauga),  Jon Van Wagoner (Chagrin Falls) and  Cheyenne Bailey ( Mayfield)

 Individuals:   Jon Van Wagoner – 5 th place;  Cheyenne Bailey – 9 th place

FFA District 3 Landscape Competition
October 22, 2009
Hosted by Fellows Riverside Gardens in Millcreek Metro Park, Youngstown

Second Place Team: Cheyenne Baily (Mayfield), Steve Clucas (West Geauga),  Jon Van Wagoner (Chagrin Falls), Chris Weist/Aaron Jaskiewicz (tie) (both Aurora)

Individuals: (116 students participated): Cheyenne Baily -1 st place;  Jon Van Wagoner-3 rd place; Steve Clucas-8 th place       

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CONGRATULATIONS!
to Excel TECC Culinary Arts teacher
DANETTE McHALE
recipient of the
2009 CULINARY EDUCATOR AWARD

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PROGRAM POWER:
Recent News Happenings

Environmental Education
RAIN GARDEN
Installation at Mayfield Board of Education
click here for Dedication brochure

Performing Arts Academy
CELEBRATION
The Chagrin Falls Performing Arts Academy students performed 'Celebration' to sold-out crowds on the weekend of November 6-8. Performances were at the Studio Theatre in the Chagrin Falls Performing Arts Center.

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Click here for other Excel TECC
News Events 2009-10 for:
Interactive Media
Marketing - Mrs. Getz
Public Safety Academy
Medical Technologies

"A simple question to ask is, 'How has the world of a child changed in the last 150 years?" And the answer is, "It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed! But if you look at school today versus 100 years ago, it is more similar than dissimilar."
— Peter Senge, senior lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The students who come to learn in our schools are incredibly different from the students encountered a century, fifty or even ten years ago. As educators and parents, do we actually understand how they think, learn, communicate, and socialize? Students today can instant message, Google, twitter, talk on a cell phone, watch television and play a video game wirelessly with a friend down the street seemingly all at the same time. They don't learn the way their grandparents or even their parents learned.

At the same w e live in a world where economy is driven by innovation and knowledge, marketplaces are engaged in intense competition, society faces complex business, political, scientific, technological, health and environmental challenges. In order to be effective in a global economy and environment students need authentic learning that is student centered, project based, coupled with business and industry and delivered in context. Students need to be 21 st century learners. The mandate has become clear that students emerging from high schools, colleges and technical training centers need to be equipped to deal with the complexity of our new world.

Students in Excel TECC programs are met with a fresh approach to education. They are immersed in programs where field professionals present contextual problems they are expected to approach and solve. It is refreshing to see students constructing new facilities for programs and schools, rehabilitating homes to revitalize a neighborhood, improving design, working with preschoolers as educators, planning and preparing menus and running events, planning and implementing appropriate medical protocols, dreaming of a market for green products, working to effectively interface with the public, developing and designing safety protocols and working to develop better maintained turf and gardens. Our students are asked to be business savvy, fiscally responsible, fast thinking and critical evaluators. Our faculty demands the best of our students and it is a pleasure to watch them meet or exceed expectations. Students in Excel TECC emerge ready to meet 21 st century demands.

Thank you for the opportunity to help students develop the skills, knowledge and competencies to be successful in the 21 st century. I consider the opportunity an honor and a privilege. Thank you for choosing and supporting Excel TECC.