Hinds County Career & Technical Center

Ms. Ashmore’s Corner

Career ExplorationInside this Issue:Thomas’ Place- Law Enforcement

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Tighe’s Techies- Simulation & Animation

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Mrs. Caston- The Marketing Mix

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Fults’ News- Automotive News

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Payne’s AEST News 3

Fairchild/Causey- Health Science Team

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Counselor’s Corner 4

Student Services’ News 4

More News 4

SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST:

• CPAS Testing• Student Awards Day• Adult Education Classes• RES 5th Graders Tour

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: Mr. John Neal, Title IX, or Dr. Joycelyn Whipps, 504 Personnel, Phone: 601-857-5222, Raymond, MS 39154

Counselor’s Corner

Student Services’ News

Upcoming Activities

Carver Middle School hosted its annual Career Exploration for its eighth grade students. The Career Center was invited to speak to the students about what they would like to do for their career. The presentation also highlighted career opportunities based on each student’s interests. Students watched a recruitment video, which highlighted the classes offered at the Career Center. Additionally, the CTC discussed “Non-Trad in the Class.” This segment brought awareness to seeking a career in nontraditional areas. For example, a woman can work in the automotive field and still be successful; a man can become a nurse if he chooses. Students enjoyed playing the CTC’s own original gigantic board game, “Smash Path.” This game is split into three categories: drawing,

acting, and trivia. We are excited and looking forward to the Raymond Elementary School fifth graders visiting us at the Career Center. Students will watch a short video clip entitled Career Pathways and hear from some of our students speak about our current CTC programs.

Student Services strives to provide student-centered services which promote equality, enhance the educational experience, stimulate success, and contribute to the students who are members of special populations. We are available to meet the needs of students with subject remediation, test preparation, and note-taking skills. Additionally, we work with students to help improve their job-seeking skills. Guest speakers come and speak to our students on the responsibilities for real life situations. We encourage students and prepare them for a post-secondary education. We would like to give a special thanks to Mrs. Clarissa Hickmon and Mrs. Debra McGee from BankPlus for speaking with our students. They discussed banking responsibilities and the appropriate use of paychecks. Mid-March, our AEST students were

chosen to be tested in a pilot program, KITE Client. They were tested on the courses “Concepts of Agriculture” and “Agriculture

and Natural Resources”, which gives them more preparation for the incoming CPAS. ■

Volume 3, Issue 2Spring 2014

Career Exploration is the focus of classroom guidance lessons during the year here at CTC.

All year long our school will travel out to HCSD schools to help provide Career Exploration and information on the different Career Pathways offered. Students of all ages will identify their interests, skills, and abilities to begin thinking about what types of jobs may be a good fit for their personality.

Students will learn more about the sixteen Career

Clusters and take Interest Inventories to better understand the connection between education, future goals, and career choices.

As the CTE counselor, it is my goal to help every student at the Career Center and across the district to be the best student that they can be; this includes working directly with students, as well as collaborating with families and staff.

Please contact me if there’s anything I can do to help your child be more successful in school. Hinds CTC Counseling and Student Services team

helping all students in: ►Finding a rewarding career. ►Finding a college that’s right for them. ►Finding ways to pay for college. ►Finding Success in and after college.

April 23: Administrative Assistant Day! We want to thank Ms. Moreland for her work.April 29-30: All CTC students will be testing

for the MS CPAS or certification. (Simulation students will be tested April 23-25 on a Performance Based Assessment.) We’re pushing for our students to succeed!May 2: Student Awards Day! + Fifth Graders Tour at the CTC.

May 5-9: Teacher Appreciation Week! Let’s show some special appreciation for our teachers.May 7-8 is Professional Dress Day. CTC students will dress professionally.

Tighe’s Techies - Simulation & Animation (Continues from page 2) Brandon Land received 1st place in the entire state of Mississippi for Promotional Graphics as well as 1st place in Video Game Design with his partner Jacarious Redd. Jaimie Banayat was awarded 1st place in Desktop Publishing for the state of Mississippi as well as 2nd place in Webmaster with his partners Trevyon Walker and Thomas Mayes. We are so proud of our students’ accomplishments and that they now have the honor to go to Washington, D.C. 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 fund raise 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!

The end of the 2013-14 school year is fast approaching! We have had a busy year with lots of new changes. We have gone through: Baseline CPAS, MSTAT, MPES, PARCC, NATEF and an AEST Pilot test; as well as student organizations’ competitions such as HOSA, DECA, SkillsUSA, TSA, and FFA. WHEW!!! If you have no idea what those acronyms are, then you need to become more involved with the Hinds County Career & Technical Center. This is the first year that we have offered Adult Education classes. We will finish both Powder Puff Mechanics and Pixel Perfect classes on May 1, 2014. Next year, we plan to offer American Sign Language and Basic Bookkeeping in addition to the present classes. Watch for our announcements. Our student organizations have done well this year. We have four Technology Student

Association (TSA) students from the Simulation & Animation Design class going to national competition in Washington, D.C. June 27-July 1; and one student from Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) going to national competition in Orlando, Florida, June 25-28. All of our student organizations did very well this year in competitions. The Career Center will be offering an Industrial Technology Class next year where students will learn welding, electrical wiring, plumbing, etc. Also, we are in the first stage of writing for the Robotic/Engineering program to be included for the 2014-15 school year.

Dates to remember:• April 23 Director’s Advisory Committee• April 23 - 30 CPAS Testing• May 2 Student Awards Day

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Thomas’ Place - Law Enforcement

Tighe’s Techies- Simulation & Animation

Mrs. Caston- The Marketing Mix

Fult’s Automotive News

Payne’s AEST News

Fairchild/Causey - Health Science Team

Student of the Month

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In the second semester of Law & Public Safety, the classes have learned the history and process of finger printing. Students were given different tasks and assignments to try and recover finger prints from numerous items and locations. Students also had the opportunity to retrieve finger prints from a motor vehicle. Also within the semester, students

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 software during our remaining game design units. They have reviewed their collision theory logic within a game engine for basic programming, drawn their own character concept art created from vector graphics using the pen tool 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 real case 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 CPAS. This is the first year that the Simulation and Animation Design II students will be taking a performance based CPAS exam instead of a multiple choice exam, but we anticipate that they will do well considering their level of achievement during the seminar experience. Our local TSA chapter has been doing amazing things this year! We had 14 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 Olive Branch, MS. We had 5 students qualify for the National TSA Conference this year! (Continues on page 4.)

The future technicians of Automotive I are racing to finish electrical and advanced electrical units before CPAS. They are all wrapped up in series, parallel, and series parallel circuits. Good luck to all of them for their hard work and efforts. On the other hand, Automotive II future techs are knee deep into engine performance and advanced engine performance. They are fine tuning several projects for a final lab grade. Keep up the good work. Also during this semester, we’ve been keeping very busy prepping for competitions. Along with the Health Science and Law & Public Safety students, we’ve competed in the SkillsUSA District and State conference. The results are below:

▶Opening & Closing Team (1st at District & 3rd at State) Justice Blalock,

Jalan Edwards, Tafallah Heard, Elijah Clayton, Julia Clayton, and Chareia Pugh

▶Auto Service Technology (1st Place)Trevon Rucker

▶Job Demonstration A (1st Place)Daryl Walker

▶Job Demonstration Open (1st Place)Dajai Sutton

▶Quiz Bowl (3rd at District & 2nd at State) Ashlyn Billie, Robert Harvey,

Shamiyah Logan, Summer McGee, and Brittney West

▶Auto Skills Demonstration (2nd at State) Jonathan Woodard

Some of our automotive students have taken the Ford AAA qualifying test and one even made one of the top scores to qualify for competition. We are very proud of our students, the hard work they demonstrate, and how well they represent the Career Center!

Good Study Tips

1Move Before You StudyMoving before you do homework

can help get your brain ready to study.

2 Pick Your Study SpotFind a place where you’ll pay

attention. Do your homework in different places, just to break up the

routine.

3 Listen to Music While You Study

Some students study better with music because it helps them to ignore

other sounds around them. Pick music that won’t have you singing

instead of paying attention.

4 Take Breaks While You Study

When you work on something for so long, you may start daydreaming about other things. Short breaks will

help you to concentrate.

5 Don’t Cram for TestsIt’s not a good idea to wait the

night before to study. It’s best to go over it many times before so you’ll

really learn it and not just memorize.Source: http://fit.webmd.com/kids/move/

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The Agricultural Environmental Science Technology program is off to an exciting spring. We have just returned from the FFA State Contest in Starkville, Mississippi where we competed in three different events. We have also attempted to get our chicken business back up and running. We have run a few egg hatchings with some luck. At the moment we have an approved a major Easter biddy sale and are awaiting the hatching of over 400 hundred

eggs. They should be hatching on April 16, 2014. On the plant side of agriculture, the students have tilled up a plot and as of last week we completed planting a relatively large vegetable garden for this spring. With that said, all is well in the Hinds CTC AEST program. We are just waiting on the super outcome of all the projects we have in the works. Currently, we are looking forward to a good spring and a great summer break.

Health Science II Happenings Mrs. Fairchild’s Health Science II students have been very busy. They have gone on several field trips lately. Some of them include: The George Ball Simulation Center associated with Hinds Community College. They also toured Hinds Community College Nursing/Allied Health programs. Various instructors spoke with students regarding admission requirements, courses taught and skills learned. Students also attended UMMC’s School of Health Related Professions Program Awareness Day. Most recently, they visited HCC Veterinary Technology Program and Community Place Nursing Home. Terry High students will soon travel to the Bolton-Edwards School to teach proper hand washing/germ prevention to kindergarten classes.

Health Science I News Ms. Causey’s Health Science I students have accumulated key information and matters in the health science field. Students have learned details on the skeletal system, respiration system, digestive system, integumentary system (skin), OSHA, CPR (adult, child and infant) and hospital & business ethics and etiquette. Earlier this semester, some of our students participated in the HOSA district competition at the Meridian Community College. Joshua Lewis placed second in the area of Clinical Specialty and Dajai Sutton placed first in Personal Care. They are preparing for the upcoming state conference.Some students were selected to visit the Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital and gave gifts.

This year’s DECA District Comp. Winners:▶Principals of Business Administration: Ilka Stewart, 5th (first year student)▶Principals of Marketing/Business: Aalyciah Hillard, 6th (first year student)▶Automotive Services Marketing: Voneisha Bullock, 6th (first year student)▶Team Decision Making Buying & Merchandising Event: Akia Jackson, Dache Bridges 6th (second year students)

Akia and Dache went on to compete at the state competition. They made a good showing but did not place in the top 3 to compete at nationals. First year students have just completed their study of economics. The unit culminated in a research project on the stock market

crashes. Students gave presentations in class of their findings. Students will begin now exploring the world of business ownership and entrepreneurship. Second year students have completed the selling unit and are now enjoying exploring the product service management unit. Students were able to test their knowledge of product branding and positioning with a game called “Logo Trivia.” They were surprised by how much they learned from advertisements and how it affects the consumer. Students will begin our spring state community service project by selling shamrocks for support of MDA next week. In the fall, we raised $40 during our footballs for MDA . Our goal for this year is $100. Students received a thank you certificate from the Mississippi MDA for last year’s service of a $90 donation.

Keyanna Robinson is a second year student in the Simulation & Animation Design program here at the Career Center. She is a member of TSA and participated in both the district and state conferences.

We asked her, “What helps you to be a great student?” She replied, “I’m always positive and outgoing, so it helps me to have a positive outlook on everything. I strive to do all of my work!”

Dache Bridges is a second year student in the Business & Marketing program She is a member of DECA and competed in the district and state conferences.

We asked her, “What helps you to be a great student?” She replied, “I listen earnestly and pay attention in class. I strive to do my work within the class period, instead of waiting with the last minute. I am academically inclined.”

Good night Sleep for

Better Learning

Sleep is necessary for learning. Lack of sleep can impair your cognitive skills like having a shorter attention span, bad memory and longer reaction time. Being sleep deprived can prone you to have psychological troubles. So yes, going to bed at a modest hour will allow you to get seven or eight hours, which will be a big help to your learning. Plus, with good learning comes better classroom grades and better test scores!

have learned the handcuffing procedure. Students had the chance to practice handcuffing the handcuffing manikin and also each other.