District bi-weekly newsletter | March 3, 2022 | Volume 2, Issue 16 |
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When my kids were young, we didn’t go out to dinner all that much. It was just easier and less expensive to eat at home. But as a treat, we would occasionally take our two children out to dinner at a restaurant for a sit-down meal. Of course, the restaurant had to have a kids’ menu and usually, there were crayons and a paper placemat on which we could play tic-tac-toe or do a word search puzzle.
While the kids would mess around with the games on the front of the placemat, they generally wanted to turn the placemat over to the open white space on the back and create their own fun. My son, always a Matchbox car in each hand, generally wanted some type of road and parking lot with plenty of spaces, including those for handicapped drivers. (My mom had one of those placards, so including a spot for Grandma was a requirement.) He would draw the roads and landmarks, creating a unique driving experience each time we were out for a meal. The open white space was so much more engaging and allowed for more creativity than those pre-printed games.
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Launch Your Future at Any Point in Life! |
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Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools has so much to offer students at any period in their lives. If you are in need of a career change, searching for a way to jump into an in-demand field, or looking to propel yourself forward with new skills and a better paycheck, the programs provided by Adult Workforce Development are excellent options to consider whether it's welding, dental assisting, HVAC, or another of our seven full-time programs. Our ASPIRE program can help bridge language gaps with ESOL classes or help learners garner their High School Equivalency (formerly known as GED), at no cost.
Eastland-Fairfield's adult education programs can be life-changing and will open doors you may never have known were there to be opened. See just how passionate our staff is to make sure you know your options to launch your future.
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A look inside Modern Cultivation Technologies |
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Grow your future by learning about the future of urban growing! |
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The future of growing is here!
The Modern Cultivations Technology (MCT) lab at Eastland Career Center is a program that growth is all around, whether it is the vegetables, flowers, or plants growing via the aqua- or hydroponics systems, or the minds of our young learners. We stopped by the MCT greenhouse to see what our students were working on and the sights, smells, and knowledge sharing did not disappoint! Check out what the seniors in the MCT lab were working on during our most recent visit.
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Nick (Bloom Carroll) shows us what it looks like in the aquaponics system when plants are growing well. |
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Did you know that using these systems, plants can grow more than 20% faster and are toxin-free? |
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David (Amanda Clearcreek) and De'wan (Pickerington Central) are making one turn into many through propagation. |
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In our aquaponics and hydroponics labs, fish waste is the key ingredient to sustainable growing. These systems are built to use the nutrients provided by more than 70 fish to fuel the growth of cabbage, lettuce, mint, basil, jalapeno peppers, rosemary, and dill (just to name a few). Ian (Pickerington North) ran a PH level test to show the water inside the tanks the fish reside in is suitable. Ian and Nick (Bloom Carroll) were seeding and placing the pods for the next round of Green Ice Lettuce, which they say will be ready in about 40 days (nearly 20-30% faster than traditional growth). De'wan (Pickerington North) and David (Amanda Clearcreek) showed us how through the art of propagation they can take pieces of one plant and turn them into many smaller plants. The group will soon look forward to preparing raised bed gardens as the weather begins to turn and the ground begins to thaw. |
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Ian (Pickerington North) shows us the results of her PH water test. The fish are good to go! |
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Around Eastland-Fairfield |
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BioSci Students are Big Winners in Capstone Presentations |
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Congratulations on a job well done to all of the Bioscience students that presented capstone projects. |
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Edna, Harshitha, and M'Kaia (L-R) are presented their scholarship awards after presenting their winner capstone projects! |
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The Bioscience satellite program at Lincoln High School (Gahanna) held its 10th annual Senior Capstone Project Presentation on February 25. Twenty-two students gave presentations on a wide variety of tops that spanned all areas of the course curriculum and overlapped with students' personal interests in the field. Students have been working on their capstone projects, which are independent experiments that a student may carry out in class or with their mentor at their facilities, for between three and six months. The top three projects were awarded scholarship money toward their future pursuits, donated by the Gahanna Rotary and BioOhio.
Congratulations to the three winners of the competition:
1st place - M'Kaia Trent (Gahanna Lincoln), Investigation Between Schwann Cell Nuclei Counts and Internode Length in CMT-2E Models
2nd place - Edna Boadi (Gahanna Lincoln), Analyzing Protein Expression in Chicken Samples from Various Food Stores Using Proteomics
3rd place - Harshitha Vathyam (Gahanna Lincoln), The Influence of Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease in Rodent Models
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Students Celebrate Black History Month at
Fairfield Career Center Town Hall
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Micah Abraham '22 (Reynoldsburg Encore) chose local dental practitioner, Dr. Portia Bell. |
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Daylin Golden '22 (Groveport Madison) highlighted Ohio State Highway Patrolman Louis Dale Sharp. |
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Seth Carson '23 (Whitehall Yearling) celebrated innovator Charlie Wiggins. |
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Fairfield Career Center hosts a regular Town Hall meeting each month to discuss important issues, announcements, and events occurring at the school. In FCC's February meeting, students were given the platform to share a class project in which they highlighted an important member of the Black community that contributed toward an area that relates to their lab. Here are a few of the individuals our students chose to highlight while celebrating Black History Month. |
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Tyra Santiago Eldred '23 (Hamilton Township) chose EFCTS alumna and carpenter, Sidney Harrell. |
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March is Youth Art Month! |
Career technical education is beautiful, as is some of the art our students in our programs create! March is Youth Art Month and we want to take this opportunity to bring out some of the creations coming out of our labs. In this edition, we feature vertical and horizontal line art pen and ink illustrations that come from the Graphic Design program at Eastland Career Center. Well done! |
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Artist: Gabby Backer
Pickerington High School North
Junior
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Artist: Jack Preece
Teays Valley High School
Junior
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ECC Hosts Last Leg of FCCLA Regional Competition,
Seven Bring Home the Gold!
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Eastland-Fairfield is proud to announce that 22 students competed at local Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) events over a two-week span. Eastland Career Center had the honor of hosting multiple events on Saturday, February 26, and welcomed more than 100 competitors from multiple local career technical schools. The EFCTS students competing in those events represented the District and their programs well. Seven students earned gold medals, 10 earned silver, and five took home bronze medal honors. State qualifiers will be announced on March 14. Below is a list of the gold medal placers from the FCCLA regional competitions. Congratulations to all! |
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Gold Medalist
Abbie Heskett '22
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Students are ready to present their projects to the judges! |
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The team behind the scenes preps to serve those in attendance. |
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SENIORS
Daniela Rank (New Albany), Culinary Math Management
Kylie Eckert (Groveport Madison), Product Development
Brian Ziegler (Groveport Madison), Product Development
Abbie Heskett (Gahanna Lincoln), Event Management
Faith Horton (Pickerington North), Leadership
JUNIORS
Maricsa De Jesus-Reyes (Groveport Madison), Product Development
Debora Kawogo (Reynoldsburg-BELL), Product Development
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MARCH
March 5: SkillsUSA Regional Competition (hosted at ECC)
March 8: 8th grade tours (ECC)
March 8: EFCTS Board of Education Meeting
March 26: Fairfield Career Center Prom
APRIL
April 7: General Parent Information Night
April 9: Eastland Career Center Prom
MAY
May 18: Senior Recognition at Fairfield Career Center
May 19: Senior Recognition at Eastland Career Center
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If you could have any of the following super powers, which would you like to have?
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Check out the results plus a new poll question in the next edition of the District Newsletter! |
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Last week: What is your favorite Olympic sport?
Figure skating: 27.3%
Hockey: 20.5%
Bobsleigh: 18.2%
Other: 18.2%
Curling: 15.9%
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