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June 2022
News for students, families and friends
Full of Pride
I spend a great deal of time with Career Tech students and staff, and the feeling of pride is no stranger to me. But this year has been especially gratifying as I've seen our young people thrive and succeed following a couple of very challenging years. Congratulations to our students, their families, and their teachers and local schools for their many impressive accomplishments, commitment to hard work, and good citizenship. Please take a moment to enjoy just a handful of our many student accomplishments below.

I look forward to following the success stories of our students well into the future.

Respectfully,
Pat Lamb
Assistant Superintendent of Career & Technical Education
Career Tech Enrollment Still Open!
Rising high school juniors may still enroll in Career Tech programs that have space available for the 2022-2023 school year.
Learn more about Career Tech programs and enrollment:
Students Overcome Barriers
Eleven Career Tech students were honored at the 2022 MDE Breaking Traditions Awards. These students were celebrated for overcoming obstacles and stereotypes in their areas of study.

“It is rewarding when students achieve in fields where they may be extremely underrepresented,” said Pat Lamb, North Ed assistant superintendent of Career & Technical Education.
Programs for Everyone
The Career Tech Program Overview below showcases our education programs that prepare high school students for work, certifications, college and life.

Career Tech offers more than 20 programs to inspire and educate students with all sorts of interests.
Looking Ahead to
Career Tech Events

June 10 - Last Day for Students
June 21 - 23 - Cool Tech Camp
September 8 - First Day of School
September 18 - Scholarship Golf Outing
Film Wins Gold
Career Tech Film & New Media students Josephine Miller and Camden West (both from TC West Senior High) were invited to display their Skills USA Digital Cinema gold medal-winning work at the CTE Showcase in Lansing this spring.
Pollinator Habitat Builders
Career Tech Agriscience students got their hands dirty planting around 2,000 pollinator plant seedlings at the Great Lakes Incubator Farm. Their project was the first of its kind in Michigan made possilbe through a $1,000 Pollinator Habitat Grant.

Graphic Artistry in Action
Congratulations to several Career Tech Graphic Arts (GA) and Graphic Design & Promotional Marketing (GDPM) students for their creative submissions to the Career Tech Scholarship Golf Outing poster contest. The first and second-place prizes are sponsored by North Ed Career Tech Scholarship Golf Outing Fund.
First Place - $250 prize
Lydia Bissonette (GDPM - Kalkaska)

Second Place (tie) - $100 prize
Jazryel Freeland (GDPM - TC Central)
Antonio Bonanni (GDPM - St. Francis)

More Awards
Alexa Brown (GA - TC West) won the Out of the Box $125 award, sponored by local graphics and printing professional Meg Young.
Lydia Bissonette (GDPM - Kalkaska) and Paige Adams (GA - TC Central) were presented with Professionalism Awards for $125, sponsored by poster judges Bruce & Jenny Caylen, Liz McKellar, Adam Warren, Sarah Schwendeman and Ed Olsen.

Left: winning artwork by Lydia Bissonette
MITES Winners
The students in these graphic arts programs also participated in the Michigan Industrial Technology Education Society (MITES) state competition where many of them were selected for awards in specialty areas. See the list of awards winners.

Poetry with Heartbeats, Screams and Crackles
Career Tech Writers Studio students recently learned audio poetry, enhancing their written and spoken poetry with sound effects. With the help of Juliet Hinely, a Ypsilanti-based, award-winning freelance story producer and sound designer, the students learned how to add sound clips to their written work as an extra layer to enrich a listener's experience.

“This project encapsulated many technical skills, conceptual development, editorial decisions -- and those kinds of skills are applied to any kind of audio work,” Hinely said, mentioning audio journalists, podcasters and screenwriters as examples.
Career Tech Scholarship Awards
Career Tech is proud to announce 2022 scholarships for seniors, ranging in value from $500 to $5,000 per award. Many of the scholarships fall into the two categories listed below. In addition, several other scholarships are available to students - learn about all of the scholarship opportunities here and see the complete list of 2022 Career Tech scholarship award recipients.

Tools of the Trade Scholarship was created for students who want to go directly into the workforce or attend a trade school after their senior year. Scholarship winners use the money to buy tools they need to be successful in their chosen field. 

Academic Scholarship was created for students who want to go to a two- or four-year college or university. Scholarship winners have their scholarship money transferred to their college/university account. 

Outstanding Students Honored
In addition, Career Tech selects honorees each year to be named Outstanding Students. See the list of 2022 Career Tech Outstanding Students.
Career Tech News
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