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CURRENT NEWS & EVENTS
>News for APPLICANTS 2010-2011 School Year >PROGRAM POWER: News Happenings >Career Tech Notes-Director's Report >BLOG WITH US! Click here to enter the TECCtalk blogsite NOTES for 2009-10 School Year
CHECK HERE for Excel TECC Calendar Information Click here for EXCEL TECC BUS CODE OF CONDUCT & ATTENDANCE POLICY HAPPENING NOW: Performing Arts Academy ---------------------------------- APPLICATIONS and PROGRAM INFORMATION Click here for Excel TECC program opportunities CONGRATULATIONS to EXCEL TECC WINNERS - Summer 2009 National Competitions 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.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION NJHA (National Junior Horticulture Association) Competition 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 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 *************
************* PROGRAM POWER: Environmental Education Performing Arts Academy
************* Click here for other Excel TECC Career-Technical Highlights – Director's Notes by Cyndi Anderson "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." 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. |
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