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Students in our Carpentry program have been working on foundations and framing.
Our Sports Medicine program recently worked on modalities to help people recover from injuries faster.
Some students from Emergency and Fire Management program, who are also Volunteer Firefighters, participated in some training with the West Virginia National Guard with Washington Bottom, Lubeck, and Blennerhassett Volunteer Fire Departments.
Our senior Electrical Program students took advantage of the warmer weather last week and completed some outside projects.
Why is Career Technical Education (CTE) so important? Research has revealed that students enrolled in CTE look forward to coming to school, have higher attendance rates, do better in their academic courses, and have increased levels of competence and confidence leading to improved mental health. Each week, we will be highlighting students from our various programs so they can share just how important their CTE program is to them.
Our Project Lead the Way (PLTW) pre-engineering class have been working hard on their battle bots. They are almost finished with construction and conducting practice runs.
The senior class in the Emergency and Fire Management Fire Management program practiced how to properly check blood-glucose levels last week.
The Wood County Technical Center Criminal Justice Program helped Vienna P.D. with traffic control during the Vienna Christmas Parade. We helped direct traffic away from the parade line so everyone could enjoy the parade safely. We got directions from the Vienna Police Department on how to safely direct traffic. The Criminal Justice Program also explained what our program is all about.
The Medical Skills class had the opportunity to listen to a traveling nurse discuss her career working with kidney dialysis.
Our Agriculture program is part of the Classroom to Cafeteria project, which gives students the opportunity to grow fresh produce for school cafeterias, and encourages students to eat healthy and buy local produce.
Great job students, and thank you Agriculture Education Instructor Jeremy Greene and WCS Child Nutrition Director Hollie Best for helping make this opportunity possible!
Why is Career Technical Education (CTE) so important? Research has revealed that students enrolled in CTE look forward to coming to school, have higher attendance rates, do better in their academic courses, and have increased levels of competence and confidence leading to improved mental health. Each week, we will be highlighting students from our various programs so they can share just how important their CTE program is to them.
Our Emergency and Firefighting recently learned how to perform CPR and use an AED.
The afternoon Welding class worked on using the oxygen acetylene cutting torch and their 6010 uphill welding this week.
The Medical Skills students spent time practicing with the mechanical lift during their clinicals. Also a big congratulations to this class as they just finished up their clinical rotation. Next stop, CNA testing! 🎓🏥🩺🩹🩻
The Electrical Program spent some time outside working on Solar Panels.
Why is Career Technical Education (CTE) so important? Research has revealed that students enrolled in CTE look forward to coming to school, have higher attendance rates, do better in their academic courses, and have increased levels of competence and confidence leading to improved mental health. Each week, we will be highlighting students from our various programs so they can share just how important their CTE program is to them.
Our Pre- Engineering students learned the physics behind balancing by constructing a balance beam this week.
Our Sports Medicine class got a bike for exercise!
Sports Medicine students recently learned how to take blood pressure.
Our Cosmetology students recently worked with their first few clients of this school year!