Career & Technical Education

Bethel School District

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

CTE Happenings 1

Tech Fair Review 2

SLHS Student 3 Store Grand Opening FLL 4 FTC 5

CTE Staff Info 6

Upcoming Events 7

Did you know? & 8 Quotes

March 2013

CTE would like to thank everyone who participated and visited the

2012-13 Technology Fair and Art Festival. This is a time for our

district and department to really shine and we definitely did that!

Special thanks goes out to the technology department who worked

endless hours organizing, arranging, setting up and taking down

everything needed for this fair to be a success.

The Bethel School District and its community is an awesome

place to call home.

Registrations are in full gear at the high schools and middle schools.

Our programs offer hands on training that closely matches many jobs

in the real world.

Please share with your students our new CTE Parent/Student

webpage http://www.bethelsd.org/programs/cte/parents_students

.

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Thank You!

Time to Register for CTE Classes

Are you looking for your

Pot of Gold?

You will find it here in

Career and Technical

Education programs The next big thing for CTE will be our

End of Year CTE Advisory

Showcase and Awards Event

BHS Commons May 16, 2013 5:00 – 7:00.

What’s next for CTE?

Tech Fair Participants

3 Vendor Booths

Aruba Networks Saxton-Bradley Troxell 11 District Booths Energy Construction BSD Librarians Child Nutrition Pierce County Skills Center CTE STEM Information Student Records Assessment Internet Safety Technology 6 Community Booths Boys and Girls Club YMCA Graham-Kapowsin Comm Council BEST AJAC Mobile Training Unit

(not sure what the other training unit was called) **21 CTE Teachers participated**

2012-13 Technology Fair and Art Festival

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CTE Teachers having fun!

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Hey Ryan…you know that’s not

a real Twinkie right?

Say ‘Cheese’ Randi!

Look out Vanna, here

comes Jennifer

Future of CTE

Another success!

Each year the number of

displays and attendance

increases and this year

was no exception.

CTE Teachers Paula

Misely and Jenna

Wallace coached the

winning Technology

Challenge team!

Spanaway Lake Student

Store Grand Opening

March 4, 2013

Students from Ms. Bradley’s Introduction to Business and Marketing class will launch the Grand Opening of the SLHS ‘Sentinel Spot’. The new student store will open its doors on March 4, 2013. They will start out selling Spirit Gear and custom embroidery items such as t-shirts and scarfs. Currently their customers will be students and staff of SLHS; however they hope to venture out to other schools and eventually the economy with their custom embroidery inventory.

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Students were asked why they are taking this class. Here are some of their answers: “I plan to go into Business and Marketing” says Andrew Ludeke. “I want to learn the basics concepts of entrepreneurship”.

Wanieda Taing says “I was actually placed in this class and was planning to transfer out. But now I really enjoy it. We do a lot of hands on real life projects”. Alysea Dillard wants to open her own cake shop some day, “I think this will

help me in my marketing skills”.

SLHS

Career & Technical Education

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FLL

FIRST Lego League

44 teams from throughout Western Washington advanced to the FLL State Championship on Sunday, February 10, 2013. Among the teams that advanced to the state competition included two teams from Bethel School District, Lego Elites from Shining Mountain Elementary and DawgBotics from Bethel Middle School. Our two veteran teams have been competing at the state level for the past four years. This year’s challenge was “Senior Solutions”. Teams explored the topic of aging and how it may affect a person’s ability to maintain his or her lifestyle and worked on improving quality of life for seniors by helping them continue to be independent, engaged, and connected in their communities.

Both teams did very well at the State Competition, but unfortunately not well enough to move on to the national competition. Bethel DawgBotics placed 17th and Shining Mountain LEGO Elites placed 24th. Both teams exhibited incredible time-management and presentation skills. Their experience at the state level was invaluable!

Both teams gained priceless insight

from other teams, and can’t

wait for next year’s challenge!

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The FIRST Robotics Competition challenges teams of young people and their

mentors to solve a common problem in a six-week timeframe using a standard

"kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and

enter them in competitions designed by Dean Kamen, Dr. Woodie Flowers, and

a committee of engineers and other professionals.

FIRST redefines winning for these students because they are rewarded for

excellence in design, demonstrated team spirit, gracious professionalism and

maturity, and the ability to overcome obstacles. Scoring the most points is a

secondary goal. Winning means building partnerships that last.

FRC

FIRST Robotics Competition

FIRST Robotics

Competition (FRC)

is a unique varsity

sport of the mind

designed to help

high-school-aged

young people

discover how

interesting and

rewarding the life

of engineers and

researchers can be.

FIRST ROBOTIC Teams form

Graham Kapowsin High School,

Bethel High School, and

Spanaway Lake High School

attended the FRC Kickoff on

January 5th, 2013. At the kickoff

they received their kit of parts and

immediately began the six-week

build session. Each team, along

with their coaches and community

mentors have spent countless

hours building, programming, and

refining their robots. Tuesday,

February 19th was the last day of

the “build” session and the robots

were “bagged and tagged” and

wait for the Western Washington

Regional Competition, starting on

March 27-March 30, 2013. Total

of 64 teams will be competing at

the Western Washington Regional

competition held at CenturyLink

Event Center in Seattle. The event

is open to the public free of

charge. Community members are

encouraged to attend and support

our high school teams.

CTE Staff Information

Inventory:

Shawna will be out in all the schools throughout the month of March conduction CTE inventory. If you have

any questions concerning Inventory, please contact Shawna at x6092

Stories & Photo’s needed:

We are looking for newsletter stories and events from our staff and students. Please include names and

quotes and send to Shawna.

Budgets:

Budgets will close on April 15, 2013. Please have all orders submitted prior to Monday April 15, 2013.

If you have any budget questions, please contact Christina Rucker at x6035

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Action Photo’s needed:

Please send your action photos of students working in CTE classrooms to Diane or Shawna for use in our

new CTE brochures.

End of Year Advisory Event:

It’s time to start thinking about your displays for the end of year event. The event this year will be held at

Bethel High School on May 16th, 2013.

Career & Technical Education

Daylight Savings

Don’t forget to set

your clocks ahead

on Sunday March

10th.

Correction:

Last month we listed many of the courses that CTE offers and FACSE was accidently missed. Family and

Consumer Science Education courses are a large part of our curriculum and are available in all of our

secondary schools.

March 10

Daylights Savings

Begins!

March:

2 Read across America Day

2 Dr. Seuss Birthday

8 End of 2nd

Middle School Trimester

10 Daylight Savings Begins

12 7:00 p.m. School Board Meeting ESC

17 St. Patrick’s Day

20 First Day of Spring

26 7:00 p.m. School Board Meeting CMS

April:

1 – 5 Spring Break

9 7:00 p.m. School Board Meeting ESC

13 Daffodil Parade

22 Earth Day

23 7:00 p.m. School Board Meeting LMS

May:

16 CTE End of Year Advisory Event

Upcoming Events

Career & Technical Education

2012/13

End of Year Advisory

Event

May 16, 2013

5:00 – 7:30 p.m.

BHS Commons

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WE NEED YOUR INPUT:

Photos

Teaching Tips

Quotes

Education-related web links

Recent Events

Student Acheivements

CTE OFFICE INFO

Office Hours:

7:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. (Mon.-Fri.)

Phone: 253-683-6950

Fax: 253-683-6079

Michael Christianson

Director, x6951

George Aszklar Assistant Director,

x6908

Diane Carver

Assistant Director, x6909

Shawna Calvert,

Secretary, x6092

Doris Hominda

CTE Clerk, x6945

Christina Rucker Financial Tech., x6035

Hours

Molly Schelbert CTE Online Instructor

X6766

Tonya Narramore

CTE Instructional Technology TOSA,

x6985.

Bethel School District

516 176th St E Spanaway, WA 98387

QUOTES OF THE MONTH

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the

world.”

― Nelson Mandela

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from

the dead.” ― Aristotle

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by

what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with

accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” ― Plato

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who

keeps learning stays young.” ― Henry Ford

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Did you know?

According to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 43% of young workers with Licenses and Certificates earn more than those with an associate degree, 27% of young workers with Licenses and Certificates earn more than those with a bachelor’s degree, and 31% of young workers with associate degrees earn more than those with a bachelor’s degree.

(Center on Education and the Workforce, Valuing Certificates, Presentation, 2009)

For more CTE facts visit https://www.acteonline.org/ctemonth.aspx