JOBS FOR MONTANA’S GRADUATES

School Activities 2

Winning Banners 2

Scholarship Recipients

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Competitive Event Winners

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Chairman’s Recognition Awards

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CDC Snapshots 5

Award Photos 6

Inside this issue:

The 22nd annual JMG Career Development Conference (CDC) was a success! Three hundred JMG students attended the conference held May 1st and 2nd at the Billings Hotel & Convention Center in Billings. The competitive events are the main focus of the CDC with over 17 categories that relate directly to JMG’s curriculum. There were 384 competitive event entries. It was wonder-ful to have so many students competing! The students also attended career related workshops. Cass Staton, Outreach Coordi-nator for Eastern Montana Area Health Education Cen-ter, presented information on health care careers, one of the fastest growing career fields in the nation. Cass gave an over-view of health careers and then the students got to practice suturing and wound care using a banana. Once again, Chet Leach and his drumming workshop was a hit! Chet shared his story of

building a career he was pas-sionate about by working smart and from the heart. Chet involves all the students in drumming by supplying drums for all to use. Chet owns the Rhythms Drum & Dance Store in Bozeman.

Need help? Learn how to de-fend yourself! FAST (Fear Adrenal Stress Training) was presented by martial arts experts, Dennis Forleo and Alex Taylor. They explained how their martial arts back-ground became a career and a business. They then showed the students basic self defense moves such as SHOUTING!

The Montana Conservation Corps and Sarah Sadowski, Young Adult Service Corps Director, presented an inter-active workshop on leader-ship and volunteering. Joining Sarah in this work-shops was Program Coordi-nator for the Montana Con-servation Corps, Kevin Syl-vester. This year’s CDC also included the Coordinated Chaos activity, an Ice cream Social, Talent Competition, swimming and the Awards Luncheon on Wednesday. Throughout the luncheon all of the competitive event win-ners received awards, schol-arships were presented and the Chairmen’s Recognition Award winners were recog-nized. Steve Bullock, Montana At-torney General, was the luncheon special guest. He welcomed the students and presented them with their awards.

22ND ANNUAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

May 2012

COORDINATED CHAOS Coordinated Chaos is cer-tainly the right name for this crazy mixed up series of team activities that has become in-creasingly popular at CDC.

This opening activity is a great ice-breaker and provides stu-dents the opportunity to meet and mingle with participants from different schools from around the state.

Students are divided into 32 teams from different schools. They then work together to complete activities at 8 differ-ent stations within a 10 mi-nute time limit. Activities included Wordles, Charades in Motion, Scavenger Hunt, Professional Pictionary, JMG Challenge, Landing the Per-fect Job, The Climbing Wall, and Team Roping.

Prizes were awarded to the top three competing teams.

E d u c a t i o n f o r L i f e

Department of Labor and Industry

Dennis Forleo, certified instructor in FAST Defense, taught a self defense lesson to the conference participants.

The logo pictured above was designed by Culbertson student, Garrett Reid, and was placed on the cover of the program brochure.

Pictured at left is the Montana National Guard Climbing Wall.

CDC Most Professional School

Award

Frenchtown High School

1st Runner Up Whitefish High School

2nd Runner Up Butte High School

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Winning Banners

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

The Jobs for Montana’s Graduates Foundation is proud to have a partner-ship with the Student Assistance Foundation (SAF). This year SAF provid-ed a grant to the JMG Foundation for five scholarships with a value of $500 each. Those awarded scholarships from SAF are: Patricia Ayre & Kylee McDonnell, Roberts HS; Brooke Calloway, Libby HS; Haley Lipszyc, Glas-gow HS; and Kara Royan, Cascade HS. The State Workforce Investment Board provided funding for three $1000 scholarships for JMG students. Those receiving the $1000 scholarships are: Robert Earhart, Plains HS; and Katherine Hibbs & McKenzie Ropp, both of Roberts HS. Jobs for America’s Graduates awarded a $1000 Smith Scholarship to McKenzie Ropp of Roberts HS.

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Culbertson Middle School

Farmers Market

Billings Career Center

Back Art Exercise

SAF Scholarship Winners

McKenzie Ropp Roberts HS

SWIB Winners

GLASGOW HS FROMBERG HS DUTTON-BRADY HS

FRENCHTOWN HS SIDNEY HS HELENA HS

Wood / Metal—Plains High School Fiber / Paper—Helena PAL

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Event Place Name School Career Exploratory Notebook Grade 10 1st Hunter Weber Helena PAL

Career Exploratory Notebook Grade 11 1st Eric Wakeland Helena PAL

2nd Kylie Nienhuis Philipsburg, Granite High School

3rd Dakota Buerman Glasgow High School

Career Exploratory Notebook Grade 12 1st Cedar Lewis Sidney High School

2nd Jaycee Jean Searer Sidney High School

3rd Brandyn Smith Plains High School

Chapter Banner—Fabric/Paper 1st Helena PAL 2nd Rudyard, North Star HS 3rd Dutton/Brady High School

Chapter Banner—Metal/Wood 1st Plains High School

2nd Billings Career Center

3rd Philipsburg, Granite HS Chapter Civic Activities 1st Sidney High School

2nd Plains High School

3rd Cascade High School

Chapter Manual 1st Helena PAL

2nd Sidney High School

3rd Helena High School

Critical Thinking 1st Shayla Drummond Scobey High School

2nd Jasmine Sherman Fromberg High School

3rd Brandyn Smith Plains High School

Decision Making—Grade 10 1st Emillie Surratt Frenchtown High School

2nd River Riotto Whitefish High School

3rd Coty Allard Fromberg High School

Decision Making—Grade 11 1st Jonathon Mahoney Helena PAL

2nd Caleb Bridgeman Frenchtown High School

3rd Elsie Gardner Eureka, Lincoln County HS

Electronic Presentation 1st Plains High School

2nd Glasgow High School

3rd Helena High School

Employment Preparation 1st Diamond LaDeaux Plains High School

2nd Laura Danhof Plains High School

3rd Zach Hulse Helena High School

Individual Civic Activities 1st Chelbi Brugh Culbertson High School

2nd Kara Royan Cascade High School

3rd Ana Torres Frenchtown High School

CDC COMPETITIVE EVENT STARS

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CDC COMPETITIVE EVENT Event Place Name School

Life Math Skills—Grade 12 1st Kristin Geer Whitefish High School

2nd Chris Burlison Glendive, Dawson County HS 3rd Jordy Donoven Rudyard, North Star HS

Poster Slogan—Grade 10 1st Joron Pomroy Helena PAL

2nd Ellen Walstad Glasgow High School 3rd Garrett Zanto Malta High School

Poster Slogan—Grade 11 1st Donald Weinburger Culbertson High School

2nd Aly Losleben Glasgow High School

3rd Britni Green-Nelson Whitefish High School Poster Slogan—Grade 12 1st Kassy Cottingham Libby High School

2nd Robert Earhart Plains High School 3rd Chelbi Brugh Culbertson High School

Public Speaking—Grade 10/11 1st Aly Losleben Glasgow High School

2nd Christa Konopatzke Whitefish Independent HS 3rd Elizabeth Hendrickson Culbertson High School

Public Speaking—Grade 12 1st Devin Reynolds Helena High School

2nd Dominique Kovar Plains High School 3rd Derek Bergman Frenchtown High School

Talent—Group 1st Plains HS (Group 2)

2nd Plains HS (Group 1) 3rd Bridger High School

Talent—Individual 1st Dylan Trevor Helena High School

2nd Elizabeth Hendrickson Culbertson High School 3rd Jasmine Sherman Fromberg High School

Telephone Techniques—Grade 11 1st McKenzie Clampitt Nashua High School

2nd Rachel McIntosh Helena High School 3rd Hallie Finnicum Culbertson High School

Telephone Techniques—Grade 12 1st Robert Earhart Plains High School

2nd Shanna Johnson Philipsburg, Granite HS 3rd Shannon Saxbury Glasgow High School

Web Page Design 1st Helena High School

2nd Glasgow High School 3rd White Sulphur Springs HS

Words in the Workplace—Grade 11 1st Brody Carpenter Helena High School 2nd Braden Wall Helena High School 3rd Brianna Johnson Billings Career Center

Words in the Workplace—Grade 12 1st Mikayla Bingham White Sulphur Springs HS

2nd Jen Day Frenchtown High School 3rd Paige Kriedeman Helena High School

3rd Gerome Lamb Malta High School 2nd Tayber Goff Philipsburg, Granite HS

Life Math Skills—Grade 10/11 1st D.J. Wigal Frenchtown High School

Poster Slogan—Grade 9 1st Tess Wigal Frenchtown High School

2nd Alysia Sweet Bridger High School

3rd Haley Maher Butte Career Center

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Chairman’s Recognition Award Each year the Career Specialists nomi-nate for the Chairman’s Recognition Award those students who have done superior work in JMG. These awards are given to the students who have contributed, not only in the classroom, but in their communities as well. The students recognized at the Career Development Conference in Billings were: Dylan Nelson, Billings Career Center; Sierra Roukey, Bridger High School; Jacob Van Norman, Butte High School; Justine Berger, Butte Career Center; Kellee Boland, Cascade High School; Sarah Wilcoxon, Culbertson High School; Derek Bergman, Frenchtown HS; Abigail Herman, Glasgow HS;

Amber Riddock, Helena High School; Whitley Roberts, Hele-na Project for Alternative Learning (PAL); Brooke Calloway, Libby High School; Phil Shields, Philipsburg, Granite High School; Je’anna Farrar, Plains High School; Rebecca Costil-la, Polson High School; McKenzie Ropp, Roberts High School; Aron King, Rudyard, North Star High School; Ash-lee Olson, Scobey High School; Samantha Wick, Sidney HS; James Sommers, Whitefish HS; Hadley O’Laughlin, White-fish Independent HS.

POSTERS

CHAIRMAN’S RECOGNITION AWARDS

Pictured at left is Dylan Trevor, student from Hele-na HS. Dylan placed 1st in the Individual Talent competition with his rendition of Jabberwocky.

HEALTHCARE WORKERS NEEDED!

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CAREER SPECIALISTS STARS There were 28 high schools repre-sented at this year’s Career Development Conference. Our Career Specialists were recognized for their dedication to JMG and the JMG students. Those attending this year’s conference are pictured above.

WORKSHOPS

FINDING YOUR INNER RHYTHM

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Jobs for Montana’s Graduates PO Box 1728

Helena, Montana 59624-1728 406-444-0978

http://wsd.dli.mt.gov/jmg/jmg.asp

PHOTO GALLERY

800 copies of this document were published at an estimated cost of $1.57 per copy for a total cost of $1,256.00, which includes printing and distribution.

Chapter Manual Banner—Wood / Metal Banner—Fabric/Paper Career Exploratory Notebook, Grade 12

Critical Thinking

Telephone Techniques-Grade 11

Individual Talent Electronic Presentation

Telephone Techniques-Grade 12

Employment Prep

Public Speaking-Grade 10/11

Decision Making-Grade 10

Words in Workplace-Grade 12

Public Speaking-Grade 12

Decision Making-Grade 11

Words in Workplace-Grade 11

Poster Slogan—Grade 11 Poster Slogan—Grade 10

The banner, shown at left, was designed by the Billings Career Center and re-ceived 2nd place in the Wood/Metal category at this year’s CDC.