CTE Spring Newsletter 2015

Career and Technical Education

ON THE MOVE

Volume 2, Issue 2 May 7, 2015

INSIDE THIS District 3 SkillsUSA Competition Held at South Plains College
ISSUE:

ATC Teacher of the 2 Students advancing to LISD students competed
Year state competition quali- against 450 students from
fied to do so after their 29 area Skills USA chap-
Ervin Visits Ag Farm 3 District 3 competition in ters.
Ag Students Excel 4 February at South Plains
College in Levelland, Shawndelle Kreger, Mon-
Estacado DIM 5 Texas. terey High School cos-
Students metology teacher, serves
as District 3 Director for
LISD-TV Helps 6 A total of 19 students SkillsUSA and Mike Gar-
rett, ATC automotive tech-
Training Videos 7 earned first-place honors nology teacher, serves on
8 the Board of Directors for
Graphic Design & and others placed 2nd or Texas Skills USA.
Illustration Artwork
3rd in Technical Tests.

Students also received

New Addition to 9 blue ribbons for projects
Program
Abigail Montoya, CHS senior, at the State Competition.
placed 1st in Men’s Haircutting
Industry Experience 10
Shared at District 3 SkillsUSA compe-

tition, February 20-21, 2015.

CHS Students 11 PSkeirlflosUrmSAWSetulldaetnStstate
Advance to State

Culinary Students 12
Prepare Breakfast 13

TAFE Students Had Lubbock ISD was well rep- in Welding Applications;
Success at resented by 123 outstand- and Lexie Bailey, Monte-
Nationals ing Career and Technical rey HS senior, placed
Education (CTE) students
HOSA Students 14 who qualified for the third in Cosmetology.  
Advance 15 SkillsUSA State Confer-
ence in Corpus Christi, Students competed in
FCCLA National Texas. These students Audio Video Production,
Conference earned a trip to the compe- Automotive Technology,
tition after winning at the Automotive Collision
TAFE Officers 16 district level in February. Repair and Refinishing,
Selected Computer Maintenance/
Skills winners from other Networking/Technician,
T-shirt Quilt Designs 17 CTE programs participating Cosmetology, Graphic
in hands-on contests were: Design and Illustration,
GIS Students 18 Coronado High School Law and Justice, Preci-
Compete senior, Abigail Montoya, sion Metal Manufactur-
second place in Men's ing and Welding.
To Infinity & Beyond 19 Haircutting; Lubbock High
20 School junior, Bailey Wil- Students also medaled
ATC Manufacturing son, second place in Auto- in Technical Tests and
Career Fair motive Service Technolo- received ribbons for pro- Harley McGuigan, Automotive Technolo-
gy; Coronado HS senior, jects. gy student and Lubbock High School
3-D Printing a 21 Taylor Golden, third place junior, proudly displays the first place
“Real” Bit award she won in Automotive Technolo-
gy—Mobile Electronics hands-on com-
Top Honors 22 petition at the State SkillsUSA competi-
23 tion in Corpus Christi, Texas. She quali-
ATC Scholarship fied to compete in the National
Winners SkillsUSA Mobile Electronics competi-
tion in Louisville, Kentucky, June 22-26,
Health Teacher 24
Recognized 2015.

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Pat Fritz Selected as ATC Teacher of the Year

The faculty and staff at the touched in such a special way  
Byron Martin Advanced Tech- by having the opportunity to
nology Center (ATC) voted Pat teach and work with each of
Fritz, 3-D Graphic Modeling & you (ATC faculty and staff).
Animation and Web Technolo- Thank you for your support
gies instructor as the 2014- and encouragement. This
2015 Teacher of the Year for honor belongs to all of you.”
the ATC. Pat has taught these
classes at the ATC since 2010 Congratulations
and has 28 years of experi- Mrs. Fritz!
ence in the teaching profes-
sion. She and her husband
came to Lubbock when he was
hired as the Interim Dean of
the Honors College at Texas
Tech University. Pat said, “My
life has been enriched and

Education Commissioner ATC Hosts Open House Event
and Senator visit ATC

Shown below are Texas Commissioner
of Education, Michael Williams, (left)
and Texas District 28 Senator, Charles
Perry, (right).

Williams and Perry toured the Byron
Martin Advanced Technology Center in
January. In the photo below, both
Williams and Perry are observing a
student’s project created on a 3-D
printer. 

Shown above (L to R) are ATC instructor, Dottie Garcia, parent,
Gabriel Benitez, Lubbock High student, Alexandra Benitez and
mom, Corina Benitez.
The Benitez family was one of many who stopped by the ATC
Open House event to explore the varied options that are availa-
ble for students. In this particular case, Alexandra is considering
taking Ms. Garcia's digital fashion art class.

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Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

Ervin Elementary Visits Ag Farm

FFA members of the students enjoyed
Coronado High School's
(CHS) Agriculture, Food touching the animals
and Natural Resources
program spent time and learning how to
sharing their animals
and information about plant seeds."  
the program with Pre-K
In the photo above, Coronado High School freshmen FFA members (L to R) students from Ervin Ele-
Wade Ellison and Cory Scifres hold goats for a photo op with Ervin Elemen- mentary School. Cassie
Sanders, CHS Ag teach-
tary School students and teachers. er, said, "This was a
great opportunity for our
students to interact with
younger students and to
share their Ag experi-
ences with them. The
Ervin Elementary School

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Ag Students Excel across the State in Stock Shows

It takes commitment, patience Coronado and Monterey High  
and the desire to travel thou- School students in Agriculture,
sands of miles to raise and Food and Natural Resources

care for an animal that stu- classes are given an oppor-
dents show at stock shows tunity to learn about animals
across the huge state of Tex- and to raise a rabbit, goat, pig
as. But, the rewards from this or lamb from just a few weeks
experience are worth it be- old to maturity. Classes like
cause they learn to care for
animals and, in many cases, Small Animal Management,
receive good money after sell- Livestock Production, Veteri-
ing their animal. nary Medical Applications and
others help students under-

Stocks shows begin in January stand the importance of taking
for these students with the good care of your animals.

showing of their animals at the

local stock show at the Lub-

bock ISD Ag farm on the Mar-

sha Sharp Freeway. Just a

few days after the local stock

show, the Texas Tech Univer-

sity show is held followed by Madison Phillips, Monterey HS senior, is
the Lubbock County, Fort shown holding her 2nd Place ribbon for her
Worth, San Antonio, Houston,
San Angelo and Austin, Texas “Cross” pig shown at the San Angelo
shows. Stock show. She also won 2nd Place in
San Antonio, 4th in Houston and 5th place

at the Austin stock show. In Houston,

there were 60 pigs in her category. There

were 5,000 entries in this show.

LHS Students Celebrate Earth Day

Pictured with her students and a representative from the Pictured planting are Rachel Holmesly and Abel Nieto,
Heart of Lubbock Community Garden holding a “thank seniors.
you” sign are (L to R) Marcy Ventle, Lubbock HS Ad-
vanced Plant and Soil Science teacher, Ford Canale, Earth Day 2015 was celebrated by the students in Marcy
Bianca Garcia, seniors, and Beth Rosler, Mrs. Ventle Ventle’s Advanced Plant and Soil Science class by
and her students have adopted a class called Structured planting, painting and cleaning up the community gar-
Learning where they provide hands on labs for these den for the Heart of Lubbock neighborhood.
students every Friday.

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   Arts, A/V Production & Communications

 

Estacado Digital Interactive Media Students Learn Photoshop

In Digital Interactive Media (DIM)
classes students design and cre-
ate multimedia projects through
software programs like Pho-
toshop. Oliver Morales, Estacado
High School (EHS) junior, used
filters on a photo of an EHS foot-
ball player to make the photo
look like it had been sketched.
Mariah Silva, EHS sophomore,
created an overlay and pulled the
pieces apart to give a puzzle ef-
fect to her photo. 

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LISD-TV Helps News Channel 11 after Accident

In the photo to the right,
KCBD news anchors, Karin
McCay and Abner Euresti,
can be seen on the set of
LISD-TV. The lower left
photo shows KCBD general
manager, Dan Jackson, ad-
dressing his staff, lower right
shows Karin and Abner pre-
paring for the broadcast.

After a small plane crashed
into the KCBD broadcast
tower, LISD-TV's staff and
management immediately
provided access to the LISD-
TV television facilities so that
the KCBD 10 p.m. newscast
could still go on the air.
KCBD continued to use the
LISD-TV studio facilities for
several days thereafter.  

March is Youth
Art Month

Coronado High School student, Gun-
ner "Griff" Griffith, stands beside the
poster he designed for Youth Art
Month 2015. Griffith was recognized
along with the other Blue Ribbon Art
winners at the Blue Ribbon Art Re-
ception, Tuesday, March 3.

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Training Videos Produced for Citibus

There is more to riding on Citi-
bus than just jumping on and
taking off, and students in the
Audio/Video Production pro-
gram at LISD – TV are show-
ing people how it is done.

Contacted earlier in the school In the photo, Audio/Video Production students from LISD-TV discuss the best
year by Citibus Marketing camera angles for the training video they produced for Citibus.
Manager, Val Cochran, stu-
dents in the AV Production CHS Students Advance to State
class were given an opportuni-
ty to produce four training vide-
os. Students competed
against each other for the best
video in one of four categories.
The winners were:

 Kelsey Weatherly, Monterey
HS sophomore, “Wheelchair
Accessibility”

 Alex Miranda, Lubbock HS
junior, “How to Pay the
Fare”

 Matthew Greene-Ramirez,
Monterey HS senior,
“Bringing your Bike on Citi-
bus”

 Dani Mata, Monterey HS
senior, “How to Ride Citibus”

The bus chosen for the videos Coronado High School Accounting 2015 2nd
was the Wing Stop bus and Place Regional UIL team are from (L to R),
the general manager of the Abigail Bradshaw, AnnaBeth Lane and Han-
Lubbock stores was incredibly na Taylor. For more information on this sto-
supportive of this project. The
A/V students were treated to a ry, refer to page 11.
Wing Stop luncheon for their
efforts and given meal certifi-
cates.

Coronado High School Computer Appli-
cations 2015 UIL Regional Winners
are from (L to R), Vince Rodriguez, 3rd
place; Jamie Dugan, 1st Place; and Chel-
sea Shideler, 6th Place. For more infor-

mation on this story, refer to page 11.

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Graphic Design & Illustration Artwork titled “Rebirth”

Digital arts classes at the Plains Fair Art Show, Scholas-
Byron Martin Advanced Tech- tic Art and Writing Awards
nology Center (ATC) including competition at Wayland Baptist
3-D Graphic Modeling & Ani- University in Plainview, Texas,
mation, Graphic Design and Lubbock ISD Youth Art Month
Illustration, Graphic Design show, iDigi Fest at South
and Fashion Illustration and Plains College, SkillsUSA Ad-
Animation offer outstanding vertising Design Job Exhibit,
opportunities for students to LISD Central Office art display,
explore their creative side and the Louise Hopkins Under-
to enter their artwork in a num- wood Center for the Arts
ber of art shows and competi- (LHUCA) exhibit, The Legacy
tions. Event Center and the Lubbock
Arts Festival. Students won
During this school year, more Gold, Silver and Honorable
than 200 students in these Mention ribbons and or certifi-
classes have entered their cates in each of these shows.
work in the Panhandle South

Lubbock High School Student Graphic Design & Illustration student
Travels to New York Juan Damine Alvarez, Coronado HS sen-
ior, designed this piece of art that he titled
“Rebirth.”

Professional Communica-
tions Teaches Great Skills

Congratulations to Rylee Ben- Coronado HS senior, Colton Kemp, gives
ton, Lubbock High School jun- a persuasive speech in his Professional
ior, who was recently awarded Communications (Speech) class. In this
a silver medal in the national course students are expected to develop
digital arts competition for the and expand their ability to write, read,
Scholastic Art & Writing edit, speak, listen, apply software appli-
Awards. Her work will be dis- cations, manipulate computer graphics
played in New York, New York and conduct Internet research.
in June. She has an oppor-
tunity to receive her certificate
at the national ceremony held
at Carnegie Hall in New York
City on June 6, 2015. Benton
is pictured with her award-
winning artwork.

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New Addition to Program at ATC   Introduction to Cosmetology
Offered Next Year at MHS
This year, the new Construc-
tion Technology instructor, Beginning in the 2015-16 school
Randall Hust, at the Byron year, the Cosmetology program at
Martin ATC has added another Monterey High School will offer an
project to the program for stu- Introduction to Cosmetology course
dents in the advanced class. for sophomore students. This
In addition to building a 1,200 course is designed to provide an
square foot home in the back entry-level experience for students
parking lot for Habitat for Hu- interested in careers in cosmetolo-
manity, students are building gy. Students will explore areas
the cabinets to go inside the such as bacteriology, sterilization
house. and sanitation.

Pictured (L to R) with one of the
kitchen cabinets they built are: Paul
Glenn, Coronado HS senior; Camer-
on Yeoman, Monterey HS senior; and
Xavier Guerra, Coronado HS junior.

Interior Design Classes Build Miniature Houses

Reading the directions and assembling
a miniature house kit with thousands of
small pieces is not always an easy
task, but the students in Interior De-
sign class at Coronado High School
enjoy the task and excel at it. From
beginning to end, the students work in
teams to sort, identify, glue and paint
the house as one of the final projects
in this class.

Above Gencie Houy, CHS Interior Design teacher (L to R), is shown with soph-
omore, Aubrey Torres and junior, Keauni Forster.

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Industry Experiences Shared at Monterey High School

With a degree in Hotel and Brian Achilles, General Manager at ARAMARK for Lubbock ISD, spent the first part
Restaurant Management from of his career in Sports, Entertainment and Marketing for a number of facilities in-
Cornell University, Brian Achil- cluding the Reliant Stadium, Minute Maid Park and The Cynthia Woods Mitchell
les, has been able to pursue Pavilion. He is shown above visiting with Monterey High School students in De-
many of his career dreams wayne Soto’s Sports, Entertainment and Marketing class about career opportunities
including working directly with in this industry.
the Houston Texans and Hou-
ston Astros while also support-
ing many special events like
Super Bowl XXXVIII, the MLB
All Star Game, and the MLB
World Series.

Achilles stated, “Special
events start the moment a cus-
tomer drives into the parking
lot. It is not just about the
event itself, but the concession
stands, ticketing, bathroom
cleanliness and much more.
You have to strive to make the
customer happy.”

LHS Students Present at Alaska Society for Technology in Education

Video Game Design (VGD) incredible opportunity to be In addition, the students de-
has become one of the most presenters at the Alaska Soci- signed a video game called
popular classes for Lubbock ety for Technology in Educa- “ASTEroids” and presented it
ISD high school students to tion (ASTE) conference, Feb- to an audience of 175 people.
take. This year, more than ruary 21 – 24, 2015.
200 students at Lubbock, Ventle shared with other VDG
Coronado and Monterey High The LHS students, Elia Mar- teachers and administrators
Schools enrolled in VGD clas- tinez, junior, and Hope Bustil- how an innovative course like
ses and it is only the second los, sophomore, presented 7 VGD can be used to teach
year that the course has been hours and 15 minutes of in- problem solving skills to high
offered. Because of her structional content that includ- school students and how gami-
knowledge in VGD, the Lub- ed teaching adults (teachers, fication in the classroom can
bock High School VGD teach- administrators, technology help with team building, lead-
er, Marcy Ventle, and two of leaders and superintendents) ership and discipline issues.
her students were given an how to create video games
using MMF2.

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CHS Students Advance to State   

Coronado High School’s ac- competition will be Vince one question per student on
counting and computer applica- Rogriguez who placed 3rd in the CHS team. CHS student,
tions students did an awesome Annabeth Lane, qualified to
job at the Regional University the region in Computer Appli- advance to state competition
Interscholastic League (UIL) in an individual category. Abi-
competition held in Dallas, Tex- cations. Alternate, Chelsea gail Bradshaw placed 5th and
as, April 24 - 25, 2015. Shideler, won 6th place. Hanna Taylor was in 8th place.

Jamie Dugan placed 1st in the In the UIL Regional Account-
Computer Applications compe- ing Competition, the CHS
tition which qualified him to team placed 2nd and will ad-
advance to state competition. vance to state in the wildcard
Also advancing to the state position. The 18 point differ-
ence between the 1st and 2nd
place teams equated to only

EMT Students Visit Air Ambulance Service
High school seniors in the
Practicum in Health Science II Shown above, Vance Laymon, AeroCare Paramedic and Registered Nurse
(Emergency Medical Techni- (standing next to helicopter), explains to Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
cian - EMT Basic) class at the Basic students about the mission of AeroCare.
Byron Martin Advanced Tech-
nology Center (ATC) toured
the AeroCare air ambulance
facilities last week and became
more aware of the require-
ments needed to become a
Paramedic and/or Registered
Nurse with an air ambulance
provider. According to Cathy
Dewbre, Health Science in-
structor at the ATC, "These
opportunities for students to
tour health care facilities gives
them a much better under-
standing of the real-world of
health care."

The EMT - Basic class at the EMT - Basic students will tour nine Health Science classes
ATC prepares high school sen- a number of health care facili- at the ATC this year. These
iors, interested in becoming an ties this spring including a mor- classes are part of the Career
EMT, with skills in basic life tuary, EMT station, fire station, and Technical Education
support measures. These skills clinical rotations and more. (CTE) program for Lubbock
are used as a member of an ISD.
ambulance crew at the scene More than 500 Lubbock ISD
of an accident, during transport students are enrolled in the  
to a hospital or medical facili-
ty.

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Culinary Students Prepare Breakfast  

Lubbock ISD Board of Trus-
tees were recently treated to a
special breakfast prepared and
cooked by students in the
Monterey and Lubbock High
School Culinary Arts classes
with the help of ARAMARK
Executive Chef, Jonathan
Keefner. This year, there are
more than 500 students en-
rolled in the Culinary Arts clas-
ses at Coronado, Estacado,
Lubbock and Monterey High
Schools.

Pictured above (L to R) are: Aramark Executive Chef, Jonathan Keefner; Monte-
rey Culinary Arts students, sophomore, Reagan Perry and seniors, Kenzie
McLucas and Jacob Gonzales before serving the Board of Trustees their break-
fast on Thursday, March 26, 2015. McLucas is interested in becoming an execu-
tive chef and has been accepted to The Culinary Arts Institute of Dallas in the
fall.

LHS Welcomes New
Cosmetology Teacher

Janeen Hackney (pictured be- shampoo bowls, chairs and
low) joined the Lubbock High manicure tables.
School faculty in January 2015,
as the Cosmetology teacher. Welcome to the CTE family at
Prior to coming to LHS, she LISD, Janeen.
was a High School Admissions
Pictured above (L to R) are Lubbock High Representative for Lincoln Col-
School Culinary Arts students: Angelica lege of Technology and she
Garcia, junior, and Christian Ruiz-Torrez, also spent 10½ years as the
senior, who prepared and served breakfast Cosmetology teacher at Mon-
to the LISD Board of Trustees on the morn- terey High School from 2001 to
2010.
ing of April 9, 2015.
Ms. Hackney is pictured teach-
ing a 90 degree haircut to LHS
junior, Desire Ramirez. Reno-
vations and additions have
been added to the lab including

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Lubbock TAFE Student Had Success at Nationals

In the photo at right, Azaria Ready Set Teach I & II cours-

Martinez (left) holds her first- es at the Byron Martin Ad-

place certificate from the Re- vanced Technology Center

gion 17 Texas Association for (ATC) offer all LISD high

Future Educators (TAFE) com- school juniors and seniors an

petition in the Exploring Stu- opportunity to "student teach"

dent Support Services compe- in elementary class-

tition from Lubbock City Coun- rooms. Students gain back-

cilman, Floyd Price. Martinez ground knowledge of child and

also won 2nd place at the adolescent development as

State TAFE competition and well as principles of effective

will advance to the national teaching and training practic-

Future Educators Association es.

(FEA) competition, April 23-25, TAFE is a state-wide organiza- Azaria Martinez, junior at Lubbock High School,
2015, in Arlington, Virginia. tion that offers students the had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC,
opportunity to explore the to compete in the National TAFE/FEA competi-
Ten of Lubbock ISD's Ready teaching profession and was tion. She competed in Exploring Student Sup-
Set Teach (Instructional Prac- recently recognized by the port Services Careers. Azaria job shadowed a
tices in Education) students Texas Education Agency as total of 16 hours at Lubbock High School and
participated in the Texas Asso- the newest Career and Tech- Centennial Elementary. We are so proud to say
ciation of Future Educators that Azaria placed 5th in the nation. Congratu-
lations Azaria!

(TAFE) state conference at nical Student Organization in

Texas Tech University in Lub- Texas. 

bock.

LHS Hosts Annual Fashion Design Style Show

Coming to the Lubbock High is the highlight of the program
School Auditorium on Friday, for my students. They always
May 15, 2015, is the annual look forward to the Style Show
Fashion Design Style Show. and they work very hard per-
Dr. Maria Leos, LHS Fashion fecting their ensembles.”
Design instructor, stated, “This

Shown in the photo are LHS juniors, Sabrina
Torres and Candi Casas, with the dresses that
they designed and made.

Pictured below is Isaiah Hernandez, Lubbock HS
senior, drawing designs for ensembles for the
style show.

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HOSA Students Advance to National Competition

Pictured to the left are Health the area and state competi-
tions this spring. At the Area
Science students Brook Conference, hosted in Lub-
bock, twenty-four students in
Nugent (left), Talkington the Lubbock ISD Health Sci-
ence program at the Byron
School for Young Women Martin Advanced Technology
Center won awards. Eighteen
Leaders, sophomore, and of which advanced to the State
HOSA Conference in Dallas,
Brandon Barbee, Coronado April 10-13, 2015.

HS senior, who will be repre- Eleven courses are offered at
the ATC in the Health Science
senting Texas at the National program including two new
courses for the 2015-16 school
Health Occupation Students of year, Practicum in Health Sci-
ence – Certified Medical Assis-
America (HOSA) Conference, tant and Practicum in Health
Science – Patient Care Tech-
June 24 – 27, 2015, in San nician.

Diego, California. Brook

placed 3rd at State competition

in the Life Support Skills com-

petition and Brandon was a

national qualifier for the Health

Care Issues Exam.

Leading up to the national
competition, Lubbock ISD HO-
SA students performed well at

EHS Students Conduct Mock Trial

The Law and Justice program
at Estacado High School con-
ducted a mock trial with the
help of Texas Tech University
School of Law students recent-
ly. In addition to the Principles
of Law, Public Safety, Correc-
tions, and Security, EHS stu-
dents may take Law Enforce-
ment I, Court Systems and
Practices, Law Enforcement II,
Forensic Science and an In-
ternship in the program.

Pictured are (L to R) Estacado HS Law and Justice students, Mickey Barrera, junior,
Sapphire Escobar, sophomore, and Samiah Walker, junior, preparing their defense
for the mock trial with Texas Tech University School of Law students pictured at far
right.

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Student Heading to FCCLA National Leadership Conference

Mikeal Garcia–Ramos will ad- organization for young men
vance to the FCCLA National and women in Family and
Leadership Conference in Consumer Science education
Washington, D.C. in July 2015, in public and private school
with her sponsor, Dr. Maria through grade 12. Involvement
Leos, after a 2nd place finish in FCCLA offers members the
in the Job Interview competi- opportunity to expand their
tion. leadership potential and devel-
op skills for life -- planning,
Student members participated goal setting, problem solving,
in Region I FCCLA conference decision making, and interper-
in February. FCCLA students sonal communication -- neces-
are enrolled in one or more sary in the home and work-
Family Consumer Science place.
classes including, Principles of
Human Services, Child Devel- Congratulations to Mikeal Garcia-
opment, Interior Design, Fash- Ramos, senior from Lubbock HS, pic-
ion Design, Lifetime Nutrition & tured above for placing 2nd in Job Inter-
Wellness and Dollars and view competition.
Sense.

FCCLA is a nonprofit national
career and technical student

Lexie Bailey, Monterey HS senior placed
3rd in the Cosmetology Texas SkillsUSA
competition. That contest is five hours-
long and competitors are judged on an
Updo, Men’s Haircutting, 90 degree hair-
cut, and a written exam.

Lexie is pictured with Cosmetology teach-
er and District 3 SkillsUSA Director,
Shawndelle Kreger.

Congratulations to the Parliamentary Procedure team from Monte-
rey HS for placing 5th at the Family, Career and Community Leaders
of America (FCCLA) State Leadership Conference in Corpus Christi,
Texas, April 9 – 11, 2015. The Parliamentary Procedure team from
MHS (L to R), consisted of seniors, Michelle Montes, Arra De Los
Santos, Kenzi McLucas, Meagan Sanchez and Alexus Montemayor
and freshman, Reagan Perry.

MHS freshman Maddi Banks scored a 98 on the Mission, Creed and
Purpose Assessment and received a gold medal.

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TAFE Officers Selected for 2015-2016

The RST program at the Byron
Martin Advanced Technology
Center (ATC) is for juniors and
seniors in high school who
have chosen to become teach-
ers after graduation from col-
lege. In the classes, RST stu-
dents are provided background
knowledge of child and adoles-
cent development as well as
principles of effective teaching
and training practices.

Congratulations to the new
2015-16 TAFE officers!

Cap-

The new officers for the 2015 - 2016 Texas Association of Future Education
(TAFE) – Lubbock ATC Chapter are pictured (L to R) Andrew Perez, Historian;
Ayde Marin, Secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, Ready Set Teach (RST) Instruc-
tor; Azaria Monique Martinez, President and Vanessa Medina, Vice President.

Cupcake Wars at CHS E HS Students Make
Fruit Pizza

Cap-
tion
de-

Coronado HS Culinary Arts students participated in
“Cupcake Wars” this spring to decide which student made
the most delicious cupcake. Pictured (L to R) are Valerie
Williams, junior and Landry Stone, junior mixing the batter
for their cupcakes.

Estacado High School Culinary Arts stu-
dents enjoyed making and eating their fruit
pizzas in class during Valentine’s Day in
February.

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CHS Students Design T-shirt Quilt STEM Challenge
Date Set

Advanced Fashion Design student, McKyna Hines, Coronado HS senior (L), gets The theme for the 2nd Annual
help with her T-shirt quilt from Linda Zickefoose (R), who works in CHS Student Summer STEM challenge for Lub-
Services. Hines has taken her favorite T-shirts and cut then into squares to make a bock ISD Middle School teams is
keep-sake quilt. Zickefoose has made quilts for many years and offered some sug- Rube Goldberg machines and will
gestions to Hines. be held in the Construction Tech-
nology lab at the Byron Martin Ad-
“Gru Crew” Compete in World Competition vanced Technology Center (ATC)
June 8-12, 2015.
Members of the “Gru Crew”
from Lubbock High School’s This year, the 2015 Texas Tech
Zero Robotics team are pic- University/LISD Middle School
tured above. This team of STEM Challenge will feature
students qualified for the Zero teams from each of the 10 LISD
Robotics World Competition by middle schools! In addition to the
placing high enough in the increased competition, the teams
quarter-finals and semi-finals. will face a new task: design and
The team traveled to Massa- build a machine inspired by the
chusetts Institute of Technolo- cartoons of Pulitzer Prize winning
gy (MIT) where they actually cartoonist, Rube Goldberg. As an
"flew" SPHERES (miniature added twist, the teams must con-
spacecraft) onboard the Inter- struct their complicated machines
national Space Station in the using mostly scavenged and recy-
world finals. Congratulations cled materials. Visit
“Gru Crew”! www.stem.ttu.edu/challenge for
photos and videos from last year
and updates about the upcoming
challenge!

L HS “Gru Crew having fun after competition Collision Repair & Refinishing stu-
dent, Logan Black, Coronado HS
with a candid selfie! sophomore, is welding the fender of
an El Camino prior to refinishing the
car.

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GIS Students Get First Runner-Up for National Award

Recently, Dr. Penny Carpen- spatial skills taught in their Ad- Each student and Dr. Carpen-
ter, Geospatial Technology vanced GIS class to conduct a ter will receive an award certifi-
Instructor at the Byron Martin tree inventory and assess mis- cate.
Advanced Technology Center tletoe infestation at the ceme-
(ATC) was notified that her tery. In addition to mapping Since 1971, the President of
student's "Lubbock City Ceme- tree locations, students identi- the United States has joined
tery Project" was named first fied tree species, measured with the Environmental Protec-
runner-up in the 2014 Presi- size, categorized health and tion Agency (EPA) to recog-
dential Environmental Youth rated mistletoe infections. Stu- nize young people across the
Award. The project-based ac- dents used geospatial analyt- U.S. for protecting the nation's
tivity and partnership with the ics to identify statistically sig- air, water, land, and ecology.
City of Lubbock's GIS & Data nificant hot spots of mistletoe Thousands of young people
Services and Cemetery de- infections. The city will use the from all 50 states and the U.S.
partments, provided students reports to implement a refor- territories have submitted pro-
an opportunity to apply geo- estation plan for the cemetery. jects to the EPA for considera-
tion in the contest.

“To catch the reader's attention, place an
interesting sentence or quote from the story

here.”

O.L. Slaton Students Shine Using VEX Robotics

Students in Travis Sharp’s See picture to the right: Travis
Ga  teway to Technology class Sharp (left), Gateway to Tech-
through a program called Pro- nology teacher at O.L. Slaton
ject Lead the Way (PLTW), Middle School, is seen with
designed and built cars while one of his students, 7th grader,
studying the Automation & Ro- Anthony Beltran, demonstrat-
botics module of the program. ing the car that Beltran built.
The students followed a basic
model to construct their cars,
but they applied knowledge of
programming and gear ratios
(learned earlier in the module)
to try to make their cars go as
fast as possible for their drag
race competition. They also
learned two different ways of
programming their car to turn
left or right.

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To Infinity and Beyond National Qualifier
According to Dean Kamen, Found-
Derrick Ramsey, The Infinity teacher at Smylie Wilson, is working with students er of For Inspiration & Recognition
on STEM lessons in the classroom. To support this, we challenged the stu- of Science & Technology (FIRST),
dents to come up with their own engineering project for an Engineering Fair the mission of FIRST is to show
that we held in conjunction with our Open House night. Projects included a students of every age that science,
28 ft. roller coaster, solar water heater, rocketry altimeter, Rube Goldberg ma- technology and problem-solving
chine, egg drop, robotics, and many more. are not only fun and rewarding, but
are proven paths to successful
Smylie Wilson began its first their ‘core’ classes to help careers and a bright future.
year of offering engineering to them provide a new level of
7th and 8th grade students, rigor and relevance. We are The Lubbock ISD FIRST team,
through curriculum designed surprised how far students will sponsored by Texas Tech Univer-
by SMU, called the Infinity Pro- go with this structure of learn- sity Electrical Engineering under-
ject. The course is designed ing. Some of the projects the graduate students, is made up of
around 24 modules of learning students completed involved students from across the district.
in areas such as Robotics, calculus and trigonometry, Those students are Lubbock High
Sound Engineering, Rocketry, which were done by students School students, Aiden Daniel,
and Electricity. The Infinity in their first year of algebra. Quinton Robinson, Esteban
Project is a national leader in Other schools with similar de- Romero, Dylan Samples, Mariah
high-tech engineering curricu- mographics to ours reported a Thomas and Erik Trevino; Monte-
lum for secondary schools. large rise in student scores on rey HS freshman, Patrick Buchan-
Developed by renowned uni- their STAAR tests as a result an; Coronado HS senior, Zackary
versity engineering professors of offering more STEM fo- Daniel and Hutchinson Middle
and education experts, this cused classes. As we are School eight grader, Bryson
innovative program sparks stu- preparing for the second year, McBroom. This team also quali-
dents to pursue careers in sci- we have reports from our fied for FIRST FRC World Cham-
ence, technology, engineering counselors that the students pionships in St. Louis, Missouri.
and math (STEM). are requesting engineering in
incredible numbers. Smylie Jacob McIntire (left) and Kevin Ibarra,
Our students are already Wilson Middle School is surely Monterey High School seniors, are
showing amazing progress, engineering something incredi- shown operating the MHS FIRST robot
and we are excited what the ble! they built along with other team mem-
future holds. We have man- bers for competition. There were 30
aged to create lessons that are other members of the team not pictured.
cross curricular with many of The MHS team qualified for the World
Championship, but were not able to go
due to scheduling conflicts.

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ATC Manufacturing Career Fair – Huge Success

The Manufacturing Career Fair Cody Allen, president of Vertical Turbine Specialists, Inc. (VTS) shows ATC students
held on Tuesday, January 20, Caitlyn Mitchell, Estacado High School sophomore, (Welding I class) and Roberto
2015, at the Byron Martin Ad- Rivera, Lubbock High School senior, (Automotive Technology class) a video of the
vanced Technology Center opportunities available to employees at VTS, Inc.
(ATC) was an overwhelming
success with more than 300
students visiting the exhibits
and listening to speakers from
the manufacturing industry.
Students learned more about
the “real world” of manufactur-
ing and how to become em-
ployed in this industry from
these speakers.

Sponsored by members of the
Manufacturing Advisory Com-
mittee, the career fair was held
for students who are interested

“To catch the reader's attention, place an

in knowing more about weld-interesting sentence or quote from the story
ing, machining, hsereh.” eet metal
work, lathe and mill operating
and many other careers in the
manufacturing industry.

The ATC wished to thank
Nique D’Alise, Desert Tanks,
Inc., chairman of the event,
and the following companies
for sponsoring the Career Fair:
Bigham Ag, Desert Tanks, J&B
Industrial, Lubbock Economic
Development Alliance, Sim-
mons Pump, SunStar Electric,
Texcraft Inc., Vertical Turbine
Specialists, Inc. (VTS), X-Fab
Texas, Inc. and Charles Adam
Studio Project and The CH
Foundation Metals Studio. 

Caption

Shown above are members of the Manufacturing Advisory Committee, who represent-
ed their company with an exhibit at the Career Fair, along with ATC Welding, Preci-
sion Metal Manufacturing and Automotive Technology teachers. Lubbock ISD’s Man-
ufacturing program has incredible support from the manufacturing industry in Lub-
bock.

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3-D Printing a “Real” Bit

Alex Perales, Lubbock HS senior, in Frank Anderson’s Engineering Coronado HS senior, Taylor Golden, took
Design and Presentation class at the ATC, holds a drill bit that he de- 3rd Place in Welding Applications at the
signed using industry-standard Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015 Texas SkillsUSA competition. She and
CAD software. He printed the drill bit on a Stratasys Dimension sat other competitors welded a metal cube in
1200es 3-D printer. Perales, a 3rd year student in Anderson’s class,
replicated his drill bit after the “real” bit that Anderson is holding. their 3-hour competition.

Students are taught I-CAR curricu-
lum in Collision Repair and Refin-
ishing class which is widely recog-
nized as the industry standard for
training.

I-CAR, the Inter-Industry Confer-
ence on Auto Collision Repair, is
an international not-for-profit or-
ganization dedicated to providing
the information, knowledge and
skills required to perform complete,
safe and quality repairs.

Trace Tankersley, Coronado HS sophomore, is grinding the fender of an El
Camino to prep it for welding in the Collision Repair and Refinishing class at
the Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center.

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Automotive Students Take Top Honors

“To catch the reader's attention, place an Bailey Wilson, Lubbock High School
interesting sentence or quote from the story junior, placed 2nd in state in the four-
hour Automotive Service Technology
here.” competition. During the competition,
Bailey rotated through thirteen hands-
Kenny Lam, (left) Coronado HS senior, and Bailey Wilson, Lubbock HS junior, on stations including alignment, A/C,
placed first in the Universal Technical Institute Top Tech Challenge and won a UTI automatic transmission, electrical, en-
gine, tire, and others to identify and
wrapped toolbox as seen in this photo. solve problems.

Congratulations to Lubbock Students were tested in The Automotive Technology program
ISD's Automotive Technology at the Byron Martin Advanced Technol-
Brakes, Climate Control, Elec- ogy Center (ATC) recently received two
program at the Byron Martin new alignment machines to replace the
Advanced Technology Center trical Systems, Parts Identifica- outdated ones in the lab. Shown are a
Hunter Engineering Company repre-
(ATC) for taking top honors at tion and completed an Automo- sentative showing Auto Tech student,
the second annual Top Tech Alyssa Ormsby, Coronado High School
Challenge at Universal Tech- tive Service Excellence (ASE) senior, how the new machine works.

nical Institute (UTI) Dallas/Fort based written test.
Worth.
Eight ATC students traveled to
Kenny Lam, Coronado HS
senior, won first place in the the competition included those
Ca individual competition, Bailey
pti Wilson, Lubbock HS junior, mentioned above and Lubbock
on won third place and Brenna
de- Villarreal, Coronado HS junior, HS students, Harley McGui-
scri took fourth place. A total of 74
bin students entered in the state- gan, junior, and Antonio
g wide competition. In the team
pic competition, Lam and Wilson Camacho, senior; Monterey
tur placed first and won a UTI
e wrapped Snap-On toolbox for HS students, Miriah Wilcox,
the automotive technology pro-
senior, and Jordan Benito
gram as well as UTI scholar-
ships and trophies. Lopez, junior; and Estacado

HS senior, Hunter Stephen-

son. Mike Garrett, automotive

technology instructor said, "We

are very proud of our stu-

dents. They did an outstand-

ing job representing the ATC at

this state-wide automotive

technology competition."

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 ATC Outstanding Students and Scholarship Winners 

The Byron Martin Advanced
Technology Center (ATC) cele-
brated student success this week
by presenting 45 students with an
Outstanding Student award and
several students received Schol-
arship awards. These students
are enrolled in one or more of the
126 Career and Technical Educa-
tion (CTE) classes in the Lubbock
ISD.

For a complete list of winners,
click here.

Pictured above are the recipients of the Polly Kiker Medical Program Scholarship
award from the Health Science program at the ATC, (L to R) are: Ti’Mia Upshaw, Esta-
cado HS senior; Mary Mills, sister of Polly Kiker and Zachary Martinez, Coronado HS
senior. This award is named after Polly Kiker, a teacher and administrator at Estaca-
do High School (EHS) for 18 years. She was instrumental in creating the Medical
Magnet program at EHS.

Pictured above with South Plains College representatives are four of the five Monterey HS senior, Kyra Lawrence,
seniors that received a $1,000.00 scholarship to South Plains College. (Seated (pictured above) received the South Plains
L to R) are: Carlos Zuniga, Advanced 3-D Graphic Modeling and Animation, College Jill Berset/Career & Technical Edu-
Monterey HS senior and Peyton Sifrit, Practicum in Audio/Video Production, cation (CTE) Scholarship for her efforts in
Coronado HS senior. (Standing L to R) Jim Walker, Vice President of Academic Advanced Graphic Design & Illustration.
Affairs, South Plains College and Coronado HS seniors, Logan Ballard, Ad-
vanced Graphic Design & Illustration; Jonathan Abare, Health Science program
and Dean of Continuing and Distance Education, Ron Spear, South Plains Col-
lege. The fifth scholarship recipient, Jeremiah Galvan, Advanced Graphic De-
sign & Illustration, Monterey HS senior is not picture.

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Health Science Teacher Recognized for Her Work  

CTE STAFF Congratulations to Health
Science instructor, Cathy
Dewbre, from the Byron
Martin Advanced Technolo-
gy Center (ATC) for receiv-
ing an award from Crime
Victims Coalition for her
work with sexual assault
victims as a forensic nurse.
Dewbre has been in the
health care industry for 27
years and has taught in the
Health Science program for
Lubbock ISD for 11 years.

Jill Berset From the Director
Director, CTE
(806) 219-2803 We are so excited to share and our committee mem- We are working with
[email protected] the incredible things going bers were ready to hire
on with CTE this spring. them on the spot! Workforce Solutions and
Lisa Dudding Our students have compet-
Coordinator, CTE ed at district, regional, and We have met with all of our LEDA on a grant for the
(806) 219-2807 state competitions through advisory committees this
our Career and Technology spring. We appreciate each Health Science program.
[email protected] Student Organizations this of our 200+ member’s time
spring. These competitions and expertise. They pro- We are adding two new
Sandra Hester allow our students to show- vide input on new equip-
CCR Specialist, CTE case their skills and exper- ment needs, classes, re- certification options for
(806) 219-2816 tise, and we are so proud of sources available in our
[email protected] their accomplishments. Our community, and have taken students: Patient Care
teachers spend many extra a personal interest in many
Diana Caudillo hours helping students pre- of our students. Our district Tech and Certified Medi-
Secretary, CTE pare for these competitions advisory committee is com-
(806) 219-2834 as well as sponsoring stu- prised of the chairs of our cal Assistant. The grant
dents on these trips. We cluster committees and rep-
[email protected] have students competing in resentatives from the com- will fund textbooks, man-
national competitions in munity with a special inter-
Byron Martin SkillsUSA, TAFE, FCCLA, est in CTE. These commit- nequins, Chromebook
Advanced Technology Center and HOSA. We had sever- tees make our programs
3201 Avenue Q al of our winners present at strong and insure that we carts, and help us set up
Lubbock, TX 79411 our District Advisory Com- are preparing students to
mittee meeting last week. meet the needs of business our own testing center for
They were so impressive and be prepared for college.
the Certified Nursing As-

sistant certification.

These partnerships are

critical in the success of

our programs.

Thanks to everyone who
has contributed to the
success of CTE this year!

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