Hinds County Career & Technical Center
Ms. Ashmore’s Corner
Inside this Issue:Cotten’s Place- Law Enforcement
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Tighe’s Techies- Simulation & Animatoin
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Mrs. Jones- The Marketing Mix
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Fults’ News- Automotive News
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Neely’s AEST News 3
Fairchild/McCarty- Health Science Team
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Counselor’s Corner 4
Student Services’ News 4
More News 4
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Volume 4, Issue 2Spring/Summer 2015
• CPAS - Testing• Student’s Awards Day• State and National
Conferences
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Spring is here and CPAS has passed! We tested both first and
second year students on April 22 and 23, 2015. Testing went well on
both days. This year we had more students to place as advanced than
ever before. We appreciate the support of our staff and community
volunteers for administrating and proctoring. All teachers and
students were prepared and testing went smoothly. This past year,
we had several students to place either first or second in the
state in their various student organizations. We are extremely
proud of them! TSA has ten students going to nationals in Dallas,
TX. HOSA has one student going to Anaheim, CA. We are also proud of
our 2015 graduates! Graduation is fast approaching. Many of our
students will be progressing on to post-secondary institutions to
receive further training in the career paths which they began here.
Our Student Appreciation Day went very well. We had visitors from
MDE, Central Office, and our district schools to come and join the
fun. Hamburgers and hotdogs with all
the trimmings were provided to the students. We would like to
thank Hinds Community College for their assistance with setting up
for the event. This has been a great year. Our Career Center has
grown in enrollment as well as with programs. We are looking
forward to next year. ■
Student Awards Day
Cotten’s Place - Law Enforcement
Tighe’s Techies- Simulation & Animation
Mrs. Jones- The Marketing Mix
Fult’s News - Automotive News
Neely’s AEST News
Fairchild/McCarty - Health Science Team
We’re Having Fun at CTC!
Robotics &
Engineering
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Happy spring! The AEST class has been busy preparing for the
warmer weather. The first year students have been busy learning
about animal nutrition, animal reproduction and animal health and
evaluation. They have been caring for the incubating eggs, the
newly hatched chicks and of course Wilbur, the growing pig. The
second year students have also had their hands full with starting
seedlings for the spring plant sale and planning the expanded
vegetable garden. They have learned about various greenhouse
structures, plant nutrition and propagation, as well as fertilizer
and watering conditions for house plants as well as vegetables and
flowers. The students have germinated seeds for straight neck
squash, Marion tomatoes, okra, sunflowers, Black-eyed Susan’s, bell
peppers, banana peppers, and even a few jalapeno peppers.
We are excited to see how all their hard work pays off when the
garden is up and going. The FFA has state contest scheduled for
March 27th. We will have a few teams competing so we want to wish
them luck. We will have the Dairy Cattle Evaluation team competing
(Tanner Dodson, David Starks, Ally Clegg, Candace McKenzie, and
Makayla Allen) and a Poultry Science Team Competing (Nick Quinn,
Kendaryus Mitchell, Christin Cole, and Christion Powell). We will
also have an Envirothon team (Tanner Dodson, Nick Quinn, Candace
McKenzie, Christin Cole, Kendaryus Mitchell) competing in March. We
will also be conducting the The students will be finishing up the
year with the repair of the barn outside for the addition of a sow
and the preparation of the chicken pen for the addition of quail.
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The Robotics and Engineering program is a great course that
teaches students technological skills and enables them to solve
problems in applyingknowledge in a technological context. This
program helps our students with hands-on experiences related to the
application of engineering concepts in the workplace.
Students will learning about the history of engineering and the
careers associated with the field. They will also be learning the
foundations and fundamentals of engineering and materials, as well
as the engineering design process and the steps on follows for
successful design planning.Students participate in district and
state conferences for the student organization, TSA (Technology
StudentAssociation).
This semester has been very busy for Law and Public Safety. We
have learned how to fill out traffic citations and how to
communicate with codes via the hand radios. Another topic we have
studied is the use of force issues within private and public
security. The second year students are gearing up for the NIMS
(National Incident Management System for FEMA) testing in April.
The first year students are gearing up for the CERT (Community
Emergency Response Team) testing in April. On February 17, several
of the Law and Public Safety students competed in the Skills USA
District
Competition. The following students placed in the
competitions:Jaylon Donerson, Alonipse Hayes, Jaylan Mosley (1st
Place for Opening and Closing Ceremonies), Shakita McGraw (2nd
Place for Job Interview Skills), Keashunda Goodwin (1st Place for
Extemporaneous Speaking) Second Year Student, Lania Allen, says
that she has enjoyed learning the NIMS material. She has learned
the proper protocol for what to do in fire structures and flash
floods. She also said she has learned what not to do at a traffic
stop. ■
Fairchild’s Class The second year students started their
clinical rotations in January and will continue through April. They
are shadowing in 19 different areas of the hospital. The students
are able to see real-time, hands-on medical care from experienced
professionals. We are completing our unit on Direct Personal Care.
This huge unit is full of skills that they student enjoy. They
learned bed making, bathing, dressing, oral hygiene, wound care,
physical therapy skills and all about urinary catheters. Seven
students competed in various events at the HOSA District
Competition January 31. 2015. We had two second year students to
place: Joshua Branch placed 5th in Medical Terminology and Joshua
Lewis placed 3rd in Researched Persuasive Speaking. Both are Terry
High School students and qualify to compete at our State
Competition March 18-20, 2015. We are planning several field trips
to finish our second year. Two favorites are to Hinds Nursing/
Allied Health where they students will tour all the programs
available related to Health Science. Another great trip will be to
the Simulation Lab, where they will observe life-like mannequins in
medical situations, all controlled by computer. This lab is
utilized by programs at Hinds Nursing/Allied.
McCarty’s Class Health Science Core is continuing to strive for
the best as they learn new things about the circulatory system. As
some would say, “The heart is a marvelous thing!”. Along with
gaining knowledge about the heart, the students are also learning
about diseases and abnormal conditions that can result when the
heart does not function as it should. In addition to learning about
the circulatory system, the students are perfecting Range of Motion
exercises during lab time in the class. Health Science Core is
excited about their next fundraiser launch - Pennies for Patients.
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It has been such a busy year for all of the Simulation and
Animation Design students. Since returning from winter break, year
one students have been working in multiple computer softwares
during our remaining game design units. They have started learning
about collision theory logic within a game engine for basic
programming, drawn their own character concept art created from
vector graphics using the pentool in our Adobe Illustrator
software, and 3D modeled both characters as well as world designs
in our Autodesk 3DS Max software. Simulation and Animation Design I
students will finish up the year by creating animations inside of
our Autodesk 3DS Max software. The second year students came back
from winter vacation ready to start their business in gaming unit.
The students have learned how to use marketing surveys and
demographic segmentation to find their game’s target audience,
create game pitch presentations, write a contract between a
publisher and an independent game designer, and even create the
game packaging art for a game in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe
Illustrator. Simulation and Animation Design II students are now
spending their class periods creating an edutainment genre game
together and functioning as a real video game design team. They
each have their own game department roles and jobs and have
completed all of the concept phase and preproduction phase
together. The students are now involved in the production phase of
the
game and will continue working in this phase until after their
state exam, the CPAS. Our local TSA chapter has been doing amazing
things this year! We had 19 students compete at our Central
District TSA Conference this year with multiple wins from both
Terry and Raymond. Those students advanced to the State TSA
Conference this past week in Jackson, MS. We brought 14 students to
the conference and had 10 students qualify for the National TSA
Conference this year, WOW! A team of six from Terry highschool:
Shane Bryant, Jeremiah Boxley, Johnny Coleman, Rashad Plumpp,
Justin Summerlin, and Jacarious Redd, received 1st place in the
entire state of Mississippi for their Video Game Design entry and
our second team, consisting of Brandon Land and Jaimie Banayat,
placed 2nd place as a team of two for their entry in the event as
well. Justin Summerlin and Brandon Land received 2nd and 3rd place
in the Promotional Graphics event respectively. Jaimie Banayat was
awarded 1st place in Desktop Publishing for the state of
Mississippi as well as 3rd place in Webmaster with his partners
Adrianne Rhodes and Al’iza Miller. We are so proud of our students’
accomplishments and that they now have the honor to go to Dallas,
Texas this summer and represent the state of Mississippi for the
National TSA Conference. Simulation and Animation Design’s local
TSA chapter hosts game tournaments throughout the school year to
help fundraise for the student organization and conference
participation. We hope to see some new faces at our next game
tournament hosted at the Career Center in April as well as
May!■
WOW! Spring is here! The first year business students have
completed the units on professional development, business etiquette
skills, and economics. Now they are working on the unit related to
business, management, and entrepreneurship. They will be able to
identify business risks and opportunities. Once this unit is
complete, they will move on to business law. The second year
marketing students have just finished the unit on product and
service management. They have covered several things including how
to design a product mix and how
to evaluate the impact of product packaging and labeling. The
next unit we will be covering deals with examining the distribution
process. Three of my first year students went to compete in the
DECA competition for district, and they all placed. They were then
able to compete in the DECA competition for state. We all had a
great time, met new people, and learned so many things. They did
awesome, and I am so proud of my students! Now, we are preparing
for our fieldtrip to New Orleans, LA. We are going to the World of
Wheels for Student Career Day. I am sure that we will have loads of
fun! ■
Greetings from the automotive side of the world. Our automotive
students here at the CTC are the greatest. They have been working
extremely hard to become respectable young productive adults in the
transportation field. We recently qualified for the annual Ford AAA
hands on competitions that will be held at the Trade Mart building
downtown Jackson, MS. There were six students entered (Geoffrey
Cameron, Shannon Thompson, Aaron Fairchild, Jonathan Woodard, Devin
Bouldin, and Gray Ross) for testing but unfortunately only the top
two highest scorers will go on to compete at the hands-on level.
Congratulations to Jonathan Woodard and Devin Bouldin, they will be
representing Hinds County CTC at the hands on competition. Let’s
wish them the best of luck!!! The Auto I students are busy
finishing up brakes
and electrical fundamentals. The students are building a variety
of series and parallel circuits. They are using some really cool
electrical boards that were just recently added to our program.
(Thanks Ms. Ashmore) The boards allows the students to design many
exciting projects such as installing the wiring for stereo
amplifiers and many electrical tunes for fuel economy models. On
the other hand, Auto II students are busy with engine performances.
They are being challenged with some very complex simulated hands-on
projects in the lab such as check engine lights, misfiring codes,
and emission control sensors. The most exciting project that they
are working on now is the engine rebuilds. They must disassemble
and reassemble a typical V-8 combustible engine. (Continues on page
4)
Hinds County Career and Technical Center is an equal opportunity
employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
national origin, religion, sex, age, disability or veteran status
in its programs and activities. The following person has been
designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination
policies: John Neal, Title IX, Phone: 601-857-5222, Raymond, MS
39154
Counselor’s Corner
Student Services’ News
Upcoming Activities
Student Services has had an exciting few months. We just began
using a new online learning tool, USATESTPREP. It is a great
program that helps students to prepare for their Subject Area Tests
in Algebra I, English II, Biology I, and US History. If you are
interested in coming into the lab to utilize this program, please
talk with your teacher and set up a time to come into the lab. In
January, Reggie Harris from Hinds Community College was with us. He
talked with CTC students about the admission requirements,
available programs of study, and scholarship opportunities. By the
way, for all Seniors who plan on attending Hinds Community College,
please see Mrs. Marjanovic about completing an application for the
Development Foundation Scholarships. The applications are due by
March 1. There are a few hundred scholarships offered with varying
criteria. On March 4th and 5th, we will have Office Brice from the
US Navy to come and speak to us about the opportunities with the US
Navy. The Navy offers many scholarships to its recruits. We hope
that you will find his upcoming presentation interesting
and useful. Also in March, we will have a FAFSA Day for Seniors.
On March 19, representatives from the non-profit organization,
Get2College, will be in the Student Services Lab to help Seniors
complete the Federal Financial
Aid Forms. These forms are necessary in order to receive any
federal grants or loans and most state grants or loans. Seniors,
there is money available to help you pay for college. You must take
advantage of it! Even a score of 15 on the ACT qualifies you for
the Mississippi Tuition Assistance Grant (MTAG). Please see Ms.
Marjanovic or Ms. Horton for more information on any financial aid
questions. Lastly, we are in our recruiting season! If you have
friends who are freshmen or sophomores at Terry High School or
Raymond High School who are interested in CTC programs, please
encourage them to talk with their school counselor about
enrollment. We are the most top-notch facility in the Hinds County
Schools! We want more students to have the experience of being in
Career and Technical classes. Studies show that students who have
studied in CTC programs perform better in college, than those who
did not. If you have had a good experience here, please share with
your friends and encourage them to come on over to CTC! ■
The impact that elementary and secondary school counseling could
have on the lives of students is evidenced through student success.
We know that working with the “whole child” in terms of academic,
social, behavioral, and career issues has proven to increase
graduation rates. Students struggling academically or with personal
issues can seek help from a high school counselor:
• Group counseling: Group counseling in a school setting can
address many issues at once. Group counseling is time efficient; it
allows counselors to work with multiple students of similar
ages,
who are dealing with some of the same issues. These students can
be grouped together to
accomplish similar
goals.• Individual counseling: Students can seek one-on-one help
from their
school counselor in order to discuss personal issues, such as
bullying, or seek crisis counseling.
School counselors are in this profession because we want to
connect and because we want to help, and help students achieve
their highest potential. School counselors work to make a
difference in student’s lives,” Parental counseling and support:
Counselors can also offer families strategies on parenting,
academic achievement, future postsecondary goals, and helpful
advice on how to connect with their children. Financial aid
assistance, scholarships, secondary and post secondary guidance are
all things that counselors can assist parents and students with.
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Visit our website:www.hinds.k12.ms.us/careercenter
Videos, newsletters, CTC application & more!
April 15 - 17, 22 - 24: CTC students will be taking their CPAS
and PBA test. We’re pushing our students to succeed!April 21: Ford
AAA competitionMay 1: Student’s Awards DayMay 21: Last of school
for students and teachers!June 28 - July 2: TSA National Conference
in Grapevine, TX
Fairchild/McCarty - Health Science Team (Continued from page
3)The student plan to work diligently to raise money to help
children who suffer from disorders like Leukemia and Lymphoma.
Employability Skills are a must when it comes to Health Science
Core! In Health Science, students learn(on a daily basis) the
skills that are needed to become successful employers and
employees. These skills include honesty, integrity, the use of
proper grammar, respecting others, time management and many other
aspects that play an important role in the work force. Students are
learning the “nuts and bolts” of what makes a great employee!
Health Science Core students are proud members of HOSA and Skills
USA. HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America) is a student
organization that involves preparing students for the workforce
while creating future opportunities for students to meet the
healthcare needs of the community. Skills USA is a student
organization that prepares students to become leaders and
responsible citizens. Health Science Core had students to recently
complete in District Competitions (both organizations). Health
Science is excited to announce that Health Science students placed
in competition for Skills USA and is preparing for State
competitions! ■
Fult’s Automotive News (Continued from page 3)The engines must
run and pass all pressure readings upon completion. Good luck guys.
Lastly, the automotive classes have been working very hard for CPAS
testing that’s approaching very soon. We are very proud of the work
ethics that they have applied. Until next time think automotive.
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