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STUDENT NEWS > Notes for 2007-08 School Year > Culinary Arts Wins HS Iron Chef > WINNERS Summer 2007 For last year's news archive click here WELCOME! click here for Press Release about Thomas Fulton click here for the Performing Arts website or click here for students applying to the Performing Arts Academy CHECK HERE for Excel TECC Calendar Information ************* HORTICULTURE CENTER RENOVATIONS HAPPENING NOW: *for ALL interested high school parents/students* 10th grade students will attend as a field trip during the day- Parents/Guardians & students are invited to attend For more information - call 440-995-6761 Click here for directions to Mayfield HS APPLICATIONS FOR 2008-09 CONGRATULATIONS! CULINARY ARTS WINS CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL IRON CHEF CONTEST!
Click here for video of the Dinner Plate Presentation ************* INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PROGRAMMING
>>Junior ITP Team consisting of Byron Brown, Roland Cross III , Lamar Hinchen and Walter T. Moore earned a Silver Medal with their Tech Prep project entitled "The Original Grill/C&C Music Service" a professional experiential learning project completed for an external client. The Skills USA National Championships are represented by state and regional champions from all 50 states, several territories and Washington D.C. These National qualifiers represent the top one-percent of over 600,000 career-technical students throughout the U.S.A. HORTICULTURE Students from the Gates Mills Horticulture program competed at the State Horticulture Contest held in Columbus this summer with the following accomplishments: >>The team of Anthony Pivonka, Nick Martines and Constantine Boltyansky placed first in the Open division. The students have qualified to attend and compete at the 2007 National Junior Horticulture Contest held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana this October. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS!! Career Technical Programs Offer Opportunities To High School Students Excel TECC (Technical Education Career Consortium) programs emphasize the core academic knowledge, advanced technical knowledge and the integration of both academic and technical coursework. This is what we do best. If you can't motivate students, it is impossible to teach them to higher standards. We integrate academic and career/technical studies that result in students gaining deeper knowledge in both areas. Our goal is to produce graduates who meet workplace requirements and who can go on to postsecondary study without remediation. Our Career Technical program teachers have their students read the technical materials of the field, use mathematics to solve real-world problems, and perform thought-provoking, open-ended writing assignments in a team learning environment. A well-crafted concentration of academic and career technical courses above and beyond a solid academic core enables students to see high school as a beginning rather than as an ending, and it increases student achievement in reading, mathematics, and science. It is about learning, and finding direction to make the college education the pursuit of the student's chosen profession, not using college tuition to find themselves. At Excel TECC our teachers have a tremendous impact on students and the profession in which they work. Students who graduated from our programs come into my office to tell me that they are so far ahead of their college classmates in their field because of the experiences that their Career Technical Teacher had provided. When you as a student, or you as a parent are evaluating academic offerings for high school, consider Excel TECC programs and how they will assist in educated college and career choices down the road. Explore Programs at the ‘ Opportunity Day/Night' Excel TECC is getting the word out to the nine consortium high schools that we serve about offerings for the 2007-08 school year. Mr. Joe Hayes is presenting to all the 10 th graders in the Aurora , Beachwood, Chagrin Falls , Mayfield, Orange , Richmond Heights , Solon, South Euclid-Lyndhurst and West Geauga school districts. Students see an overview of the twenty-two programs available to them. Two-year courses for junior and senior years are: Auto Mechanics; Business Academy; Construction Trades; CADD Engineering Technology; Information Technology & Programming; Computers, Networking & Electronics; Construction Management; Cosmetology; Public Safety Services Academy; Culinary Arts; Early Childhood Education; Horticulture; Hospitality & Food Service Careers; Interactive Media; Medical Technologies; Video Broadcasting; and Visual Art & Design. One-year senior-only programs (apply in junior year) are: Biotechnology; Cooperative Business Internship; Marketing; Teaching Professions; and Medical Careers Technology. Courses are held at Aurora, Beachwood, Brush, Mayfield, Orange , Richmond Heights and Solon high schools as well as Alpha Park , Legacy Village Giant Eagle, the Cleveland Botanical Gardens and the Horticulture Center in Gates Mills. College Tech Prep classes are an attractive path combining two years of high school instruction with a seamless connection to two years of college study in the program field. They include college credits earned for the high school course. After Mr. Hayes' presentation, the students are given a chance to choose two of the programs which interested them for a visit during Opportunity Day, Wednesday January 25, 2007. All parents/guardians of consortium 10 th graders received a flyer describing Excel TECC as well as a postcard invitation for a visit to Opportunity Night, held on the evening of the same day, Thursday January 25, 2007. All programs will be represented at Mayfield High School . After the Opportunity event, applications will be accepted for the 2007-08 school year and an interview for each student will be arranged with program teachers. For more information, contact Joe Hayes at 440-995-6761 or jhayes@mayfieldschools.org . Consider giving your child the advantage of in-depth study in a field of their interest and preparation for both college and the world of work through an Excel TECC education. |
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