This issue:

• From the Director's Desk • Career and Technical News • ESL • R.E.A.C.H. • Art News • Senior Spotlights • Around Campus

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April 30, 2014

Greetings from the faculty and staff of the Lake Charles-Boston Academy of Learning. It is hard to believe that we have almost completed another year at the LCB Academy. We hope that you enjoy this senior spotlight edition of our newsletter. We are thankful to our senior students for their attendance and their contributions to our school, and hope the very best for them as they pursue their post-high school plans. Thanks also to the schools for sharing their students with us this year. Registration for summer school continues. Students enrolling in a face-to-face class in summer school also have the opportunity to earn an additional high school credit through our summer virtual program. Enrollment in each class is limited so register now to make sure you have a place in the classes. Thank you again for the opportunity to work with your students!

Bobbi Yancey 2014 National Secondary Art

Educator of the Year

Happy Retirement Mr. Reon

We will miss you and your fruit flies!

From the Director's Desk

Happy Retirement Mrs. Jackson

What will do without you?

Pharmacy Tech and CSE Pharmacy tech students teamed with CSE Credit Union to create billboard ads to be shown throughout the city.

Career Readiness Career and technical students at LCBA participated in career readiness tips and tricks from local human resource employees. They learned valuable tips from applying for jobs to interviewing skills.

Sports Medicine

LCBA sports medicine students who went on the field trip to LSU to learn techniques and information from college athletic trainers. There were around 170 high school students from all over the state attending.

TELEVISION PRODUCTION by Pam Dixon

www.cpsb.org/academytv

Television production students attended the Student Television Network Convention in Orlando, Florida, in March. Kyle B. of Barbe, Valeria D. of Westlake, Sophia L. of Barbe, Devon F. of LaGrange, and Bryce M. of Sulphur joined more than 2,000 other video students from around the country to compete in film and broadcast journalism contests on-site. The LCBA team produced a short TV pilot and music video and attended professional workshops during the four day convention. They also heard from and met keynote speaker Andrew Jenks of MTV's World of Jenks.

Academy TV earned a silver Addy Award for a series of anti-smoking public service announcements. Devon F. of LaGrange and Jerard J. of Washington-Marion accepted the student award at the annual American Advertising Federation Lake Charles Chapter banquet.

It was a busy, busy, BUSY 2013-2014 school year for Academy TV students. Here is a wrap up of what TVP students did in less than 9 months. Way to go, team!

$4,000+ raised. 400+ DVDs produced and sold for video fund raisers, 50+ videotaped football, basketball, and soccer games, 12 news stories, 9 KPLC 7 Teen Reports, 7 CPSB meetings, 5 short films, 4 Lake Charles city exhibit videos, 4 awards, 3 CPPJ government channel newscasts, 3 public service announcements, 2 music videos, 2 live online broadcasts ,2 times featured on KPLC-TV, 1 feature in the Lake Charles American Press, 1 career day video, 1 T.S. Cooley lip sync contest, 1 Sulphur Christmas concert, 1 Sulphur beauty pageant, 1 LaGrange Aladdin play, 1 Student Television Network Convention

Did you know that we added

game programming this year?

Student "real life" projects and

awards

Advertising Posters

Video Trailer Click to preview

Usable websites

Video lessons Click to preview

Animations

Logos

Adobe Certifications Game Programming

Certificates

School Newsletters

Middle School ESL Gerry Blalock

Intermediate ESL students have learned that participles can be part of a verb phrase for a progressive tense or can be adjectives. The following participles could introduce magazine articles about activities in the morning and afternoon ESL middle school classes this last quarter: “Modeling Atoms of the Periodic Table” “Circling Up Covered Wagon Models on the Oregon Trail” “Planting May Flowers” “Comparing Plant and Animal Cell Models” “Designing Colored Light Spinners to Demonstrate White Light” “Hanging Mobiles on the Electromagnetic Spectrum” “Writing Novel Scenes into Play Form” “Creating Slides from American War Research” “Comparing Ellis and Angel Island Immigration” “Reading the Novels: The Secret Garden and War of the Worlds”

ESL-High SchoolLinda Dewey-teacher

High school intermediate ELL’s(English language learners) are finishing the academic year by writing a research paper in which they compare and contrast two well-known cities in the United States. Examples include such places as New York, New York and Los Angeles, California; Denver, Colorado and Charlotte, North Carolina; Minneapolis, Minnesota and Dallas, Texas. No students have the same cities. Since the cities represent a broad range of locations across the United States, oral class reports after the projects are written will provide ELL’s with information about the major areas of the United States.

The intermediate ELL’s are in their last year of the ESL program. One of our students, Alejandra G., is a senior and will graduate with plans to work and to go to college. The other students will be in regular education classes at their home schools next year.

Beginning students in ESL enjoyed reading Pocahontas, a book about the relationship between the Englishmen who founded Jamestown, Virginia, and the Algonquin Indians, who were the native settlers of the area. Pocahontas, the Indian king’s daughter, played a large role in helping the English. Students learned that the Disney movie about Pocahontas was not at all like the book, which was from notes that Captain John Smith, one of the Jamestown settlers, wrote.

Beginning ELL’s will move up to the intermediate level of ESL(English as a Second Language) next fall.

Virtual Program

Now is the time to begin thinking about virtual courses for the summer and next year. Our enrollment is limited so now is the time to plan.

SUMMER

Students can enroll in one of our summer courses if they also enroll in a face to face course at LCBA. The cost of the face to face course is $100 but then the virtual course is free. Visit our website or get an application from LCBA to see what courses are available. This is an excellent opportunity to get ahead or catch up with your high school program.

2014-2015

We are planning to offer a complete list of required courses next year as well as some exciting new electives. We will provide a complete list of the courses on our website and to the high school counselors as soon as it is complete. We hope to be able to help more students who need courses to complete their areas of concentration for graduation.

NEWS FROM THE ART DEPARTMENT

Bobbi Yancey 2014 National Secondary Art Educator of the Year

National Art Education Association has named Bobbi Yancey, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, to receive the 2014 National Secondary Art Educator of the Year Award. This prestigious award, determined through a peer review of nominations, recognizes the exemplary contributions, service, and achievements of one outstanding NAEA member annually at the National level within their division. The award was presented at the NAEA National Convention in San Diego, California, March 29-31, 2014. NAEA President, Dennis Inhulsen stated, "This award is being given to recognize excellence in professional accomplishment and service by a dedicated art educator. Bobbi Yancey exemplifies the highly qualified art educators active in education today: leaders, teachers, students, scholars, and advocates who give their best to their students and the profession."

Congratulations to LCBA art student and Barbe senior, Myranda R. Myranda's poster entry for the DTLC Crawfish Festival received first place honors and her

artwork is the featured poster design for the 2014 Downtown Lake Charles Crawfish Festival. Myranda's art work was also chosen for the recent CyPhaCon

Conference poster and you can see her art work on the Contraband 5 milerTshirt !

Mika M. won first place honors in the K-12 juried exhibit.

The HeArt of Giving sponsored by the Junior League, at Art Associates Gallery in Central School.

As part of the art department's Artist in Residence Series...Art I-IV students were introduced to Louisiana Crafts Guild Master artist, basket weaver, Emma Hughes. She taught students the art of under and over to create small market baskets featuring ceramic sunflowers.

Art I - IV Students created symmetrical radial designs. Pictured below are samples from Andrea, Caroline, Myranda, and Mika

From the pages of student sketchbooks...

Elementary talented art students are sculpting in clay in the style of folk ceramic artist, Josefina Aguilar. A few examples of greenware are pictured below that were created by some of the 4th and 5th grade students. After their clay figures are kiln fired to approximately 1900 degrees, students will paint their ceramic figures and sculpt flowers/fruit to put in their baskets and hats.

Talented Art II students have been working with two-point perspective. They have created a maze using graphite pencils and indicating a light source and different values.

Kori – 9th grade – Barbe High

Devin – 9th grade – Barbe High

Talented Art IV students have been experimenting with different styles of painting. These are abstract paintings that are non-objective. This means that they have no object in them. The students are working with different shapes, color schemes, and values of colors.

Aeriana – 9th grade – LaGrange Collin – 10th grade – Sam Houston Nick – 10th grade – Barbe

Collin – 10th grade – Sam Houston Heidi – 10th grade - Barbe

Students also painted Triptychs in acrylics. Below are their paintings.

Aeriana – 9th grade – LaGrange

Nick – 10th grade – Barbe High

Collin – 10th grade – Sam Houston High

Titus – 10th grade – LaGrange High

Heidi – 10th grade – Barbe High

Crawfish Festival Poster Contest

Four of our students participated in the Crawfish Festival Poster Contest this year. Nick S. of Barbe High won 2nd place. He is shown here at the Gallery

By the Lake for the Presentation with the Queen of the Crawfish Festival 2014. Congratulations to Nick and the other participants for their fine work.

Other participants are shown with their entries and the Queen.

Aeriana – 9th gr. – LaGrange High Titus – 10th gr. – LaGrange High

Collin – 10th gr. – Sam Houston High

Brian Laraevente??? Sulphur High School

Go to Sowela for aviation.

Noah Fincher Sulphur High School

I plan to go to Sowela and get a

process technology degree

Alex Garcia Barbe High School

I plan on going to LSU-Eunice. I will

attend LSU-E for Sports Medicine/Allied Health

Casey Barbery

Iowa High School

Join the work force.

Michael Pradier LaGrange High School

Work for awhile and then go to

college.

Slade Virgadamo Sulphur High School

Plan to attend Sowela for Computer

Sciences.

Gus Stark Sam Houston High School

I plan on attending LSU in the fall.

Jackie Wade Sulphur High School

I will attend McNeese State

University and major in Graphic Design. I also plan to minor in

Spanish

Dale Vidrine Westlake High School

Not a clue. Probably go to Sowela.

Chris Langley Barbe High School

College.

Eric Farmer Sam Houston High School

I plan to attend college to become a

writing publisher or a network technician.

Trevor Duhon Barbe High School

I might attend college, but I'm not

certain.

Leander Adams Sam Houston High School

I am enrolled at McNeese for

Computer Science with scholarships. I will try to go into computer

forensics.

David Eccles Sulphur High School

Go to Sowela Tech and become a draftsman or engineering major.

Cesar Millares LaGrange High School

Go to Sowela.

Calvin Jonah Sulphur High School

I plan to go McNeese for a dual major

in mathematics and computer sciences. I also plan to advance my knowledge in computer networking.

Jacob Bogley Sulphur High School

I plan to go to college at McNeese for

two years. After that I will go to Louisiana Tech or the University of

Toronto for Civil Engineering.

Trey Long Iowa High School

Plan on going into the Marines and

also attending McNeese and earning a degree in the medical field.

Dylan Reed Barbe High School

After graduating, I plan on attending McNeese for a degree in computer

science/graphic design

Jerard Jack Washington Marion High School

Attend the University of Lafayette

and play football and major in sports medicine.

Bradley Rowell Sam Houston High School

I plan to go to Sowela for web design. Later in life I would like to create web

sites and video games.

Robin Benton Sam Houston High School

Go to Sowela and get a degree in

web design.

Treasure Smith Barbe High School

Apply for scholarships, get a summer

job and apply for online college courses starting the fall semester.

Nathan Rowell Sam Houston High School

Go to Sowela for general studies and

then to UL for game design.

Victoria Wills

Sulphur High School

I plan to go to Sowela to become

an operator.

Victoria Hatch

LaGrange High School

After graduation I plan to go to

college and become a veterinary technician.

Carli Guillory

Westlake High School

I want to earn a degree in visual art

and then pursue additional training in special effects makeup

Desiree Hebert Iowa High School

Go to LSU and become a vet.

Danielle Wilson Iowa High School

After graduation I plan to attend

Southern University. I will major in criminal justice while also running track

for the Jaguars.

Justin Wellingten LaGrange High School

I plan to go to

college after high school.

Trey Young Westlake High School

I plan to join the United States Marine

Corps.

Maxwell Reeser Westlake High School

Go to LSU for

mechanical engineering.

Claire Like Westlake High School

Major in civil engineering at LSU.

Austin McCartney Sulphur High School

Graduate from Sulphur and go to Sowela. At Sowela I will be taking

classes for welding.

Miranda Roberts DeQuincy High School

I plan to go to Sowela and pursue a

nursing degree.

Zoe Thomas Sulphur High School

Attend college.

Elizabeth Bernard Sam Houston High School

I plan to go through McNeese's RN program. Then I plan to work in a

hospital.

Kailynn Willis Sam Houston High School

I plan to go to college for nursing.

Nikki Doucet Sulphur High School

I plan to work in a pharmacy as a pharmacy tech, while going to

college at McNeese.

Ryan Bell LaGrange High School

I plan to attend McNeese State University or Sowela Tech.

Evan Derrick Sulphur High School

After I graduate high school I plan on going to Sowela to major in industrial

instrumentation.

Melanie Ryan Sulphur High School

I plan to attend McNeese State University and become a physical

therapist.

Lance Frelot Westlake High School

I plan on attending ULL to study computer science.

Keith Reynaud Iowa High School

Sowela.

Katie McCabe Sulphur High School

Go to McNeese for nursing. Once I become a RN, I will work towards

becoming a nurse practitioner.

Emily Vincent Sulphur High School

Madeline Brockman Sulphur High School

Attend college for massage therapy.

Alivia Braxter Sulphur High School

I am going to attend Sowela for two years. Then I will go to McNeese for four years to get my PhD. and major

in psychologist.

Traval Shanklin LaGrange High School

Plan to attend LSU in chemical engineering and eventually start my

own business

Brittany Hendricks Iowa High School

Two years of college to be a nurse.

Kenzie Stevison Dequincy High School

I plan to go to Lamar and pursue my nursing career.

Johnathan Findley Sulphur High School

Matt Crator Sulphur High School

I would like to go to Sowela.

Taylor LeBleu Sulphur High School

Go to college.

Myranda Love Romero Barbe High School

I will be attending the Art Institute of Colorado. I will pursue a

concentration in game art and design.

Justin McMichael Sulphur High School

Go to Sowela and major in process technology.

Anthony H. LaGrange High

Dillon Dees Sulphur High

Hannah W. Keeton P.

Lacey B. Iowa High

Tatiana Sarah

Cameron J. Sulphur High

Go on the senior trip and enjoy the summer. Then go to MSU to major in

nursing.

Alena R. Sam Houston High

Once I graduate from high school I plan to take the PTCE exam to become

certified for as a pharmacy tech. Then I plan to go to college at MSU for four

years and become a NICU nurse while having a side job at a pharmacy.

Lexie P. Sulphur High

After graduation I plan to take the PTCE. Taking this will allow me to become a pharmacy technician.

Then I will attend college for seven years to become a pharmacist.

Lexi R. Sam Houston High

I plan to take the PTCE to become a pharmacy tech.

Sarah P. Sulphur High

Take the PTCE to become a pharmacy tech and then going to ULM to

become a pharmacist.

Alejandra Guerrero Barbe High

I want to start college at McNeese and also have a job.

Shelby M. Sam Houston High