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Tucson Unified Career and Technical Education Teachers and Students had a busy and successful summer.
Read about their accolades and accomplishments in this issue of
CAREER CONNECT
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SkillsUSA 1st place Gold Medal design by
Nour Tanbal.
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SkillsUSA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
More than 16,000 students, teachers and business partners participated in the 53rd annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, KY.
Two Tucson High Magnet School Graphic Communications students were among the top competitors in the nation.
Nour Tanbal returned to nationals for the 2nd year in a row and earned a 1st place Gold medal in T-Shirt Design.
Jonathan McCullough
competed in Pin Design and earned a 2nd place Silver medal.
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Jonathan McCullough and
Nour Tanbal at SkillsUSA National competition in Louisville, KY.
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From Left to Right:
Pete Pederson, Advisor;
Nour Tanbal, Gold Medalist;
Jonathan McCullough, Silver Medalist;
Jerald Zivic, Advisor.
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| Regional and National Champions from THMS |
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FCCLA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
Students from Rincon and Cholla High joined more than 7,500 Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) student leaders, members, and advisers at the Music City Center in Nashville, TN, July 2nd-6th to participate in the annual FCCLA National Leadership Conference.
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Caroline Farkas, Cholla, FCCLA National Bronze Award.
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Jessica Class, Rincon, FCCLA National Champion
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J
essica Class, Rincon, earned a 1st place Gold Medal in F
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shion Design creating a dress from recycled materials.
Caroline Farkas, Cholla, competed in the Ill
ustrated Talk and earned a 3rd place Bronze Medal.
Farkas said the entire event and time leading up to it helped her "increase self-confidence and speak her opinions."
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Left to Right:
National Champion Jessica Class, Rincon; Advisor Gloria Nelson, Cholla;
Bronze Award winner, Caroline Farkas, Cholla.
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THMS FBLA
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THMS FBLA STATE CHAMPIONS
Tucson High Magnet Business Students competed in the Future Business Leaders of America competition and won state titles.
Ali Abdulameer, 1st place, Economics;
Jaime Ortiz, 1st place, Securities and Investments and 1st place in Business Law; Bianca Fuentes, 1st Place in Journalism.
Advisor Mona Rutherford took and her team competed at Nationals
in Anaheim, CA.
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| LEARN More about Tucson High Magnet School FBLA |
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PALO VERDE FILM/TV PARTNERS WITH PBS
Laura Caucci, Film and TV Teacher at Palo Verde Magnet High School announced Palo Verde High is the newest PBS affiliated Student Reporting Lab. Caucci said she applied more than 1 year ago there are only 3 high schools in AZ and less than 100 nationwide to have this status. Her students will research, write and report on issues vital to the community. Once stories are produced, they are submitted to PBS for possible national broadcast on the PBS Newshour.
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CURRICULUM 4.0
For the past 6 months, CTE teachers worked with CTE-ELA Curriculum Trainer Kristi Esquerra, to refine the TUSD CTE curriculum maps, scope & sequence and align plans with standards for: ELA, Math, Culturally Relevant, Employability and Technical standards.
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WATCH this 3:00 minute video tour about the Tucson Unified CTE Curriculum
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Pueblo Magnet High School Bioscience students work as
Summer Interns at the
Pima County Bioscience Academy
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BIOSCIENCE:
Front Page News!
Tucson High, Pueblo and Sunnyside Bioscience students interned at the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department's Bio-Science Academy at the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility, in a month-long summer program.
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Arissa Gonzalez, Entrepreneur |
YEA! National Competition
Arissa Gonzalez is a 2017 graduate of Tucson High Magnet School and the CEO of her own company: EmergenFeet. Arissa won the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA) Investor Pitch and qualified to compete in New York at the national Saunders Competition.
LEARN MORE
about the collaboration between YEA! and TUSD1 CTE in the video below.
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50 TUSD CTE INTERNS
High School students from Cholla, Pueblo, Tucson High, Rincon and Sahuaro participated in paid summer work experiences
to enhance skills, knowledge and earn college credit.
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Teachers build solar go-karts at Sahuaro High with
Jack Ramsey and Ann Marie Condes.
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ACTEAz State Conference
21 Tucson Unified CTE Faculty and Staff members participated in the
Arizona Career and Technical Education Summer Conference.
TUSD CTE Presenters included: Chuck McCollum and Ismael Guerrero: Microsoft Specialist Certification; Jack Ramsey, Sahuaro Automotive and Ann-Marie Condes, Palo Verde Engineering: Solar Car Construction; Ben Davis, Sahuaro Engineering: Legos.
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| Shabach Jimenez, Pueblo Graphic Communications student is Adobe Certified. |
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ADOBE, MICROSOFT & SPORTSMEDICINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CTE Teachers and students from throughout Southern Arizona including Pima and Santa Cruz County participated in Adobe Certified Specialist and Microsoft Office Specialist software training culminating in certification testing.
Tucson Unified teachers who completed the training were assigned iPads or Surface Pros to work with in their labs.
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| Adobe Training and Certification |
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Cholla Welding students earned 14 individual certifications with some students earning more than 1 cert. These trained welders as graduates are moving into high paying jobs:
1 graduate is working for the Davis-Monthan with a starting salary of $52/hr and
1 graduate is enrolled in the Phoenix area studying Underwater Welding.
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PHARMACY TECH
Cholla Pharmacy Tech students Arianna Camacho and Adriana Kendrick passed the rigorous national certification exam administered by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.
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SUMMER PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS
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ALL AUTOMOTIVE:
Alignment Racks are now operational at all high school Automotive Technologies Programs.
SAHUARO AUTOMOTIVE Air Management System
CHOLLA WELDING: Plasma Cutter
SAHUARO CULINARY: Electrical upgrades;
CATALINA CULINARY: Walk-In, Prep Area
COMMUNICATIONS LABS:
20-70" LED monitors with Sound Bars and Apple TV were installed in Communications Media Technology labs to facilitate collaborative learning.
TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHERS: iPads or Surface Pros to facilitate wireless delivery of instruction were issued to Communications and Business Teachers following Adobe Certified Specialist and Microsoft Office Specialist PD training.
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Catalina Culinary New non-skid flooring and Prep Are
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Catalina Culinary Industrial Walk-In Refrigerator
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Chuck
McCollum
presented Tucson Unified CTE year-end accomplishments to the Pima County JTED Governing Board June 15th.
The video showcase below was presented to the PCJTED Governing Board and features Palo Verde's Optimal Robotics, Pueblo's Bioscience, THMS Precision Machining and more.
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View the TUSD1 CTE SPRING SHOWCASE
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Michael Gradowski, Catalina High Culinary, TUSD Rising Star. |
EDUCATOR RECOGNITION
Incase you missed it, two of our TUSD CTE Teachers were recently honored:
David Herring, University High software development teacher, was named Teacher of the Year by the Air force Association, Tucson Chapter.
Michael Gradowski, Catalina Culinary teacher was recognized at the TUSD Celebration of the Stars event as a Rising Star.
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| David Herring, UHS, Software Development |
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This full page color advertisement recognized some of the achievements of our Career and Technical Education students in the Arizona Daily Star, May 21, 2017.
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CTSO OFFICER TRAINING
Career and Technical Student Organization Advisors and Students are invited to participate in a leadership training hosted by Curt Bertelsen of the Pima County JTED. This training will facilitate the development of skills and a program of work. See dates and locations of the training below.
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ANNUAL PROGRAM EVALUATION
As part of the Carl Perkins Federal Grant, select programs are part of the Annual Program Review held on September 21, 2017. The September 21st event will take place at Santa Rita JTED Starting with a hot breakfast. Students, industry partners, parents and additional stakeholders will participate. See the Program Evaluation link below for more information.
PROGRAM EVALUATION INVITATION
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