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Career Technical Education News
CIS and
Engineering Tech Prep represent GSD at Conference
Both the CIS and Engineering Tech Prep Programs at Greenville High
School represented the school at the Ohio School Board Association
Conference November 11-14. Previously, the students and
instructors were honored with this selection by the Southwest Region
with a framed certificate at their Annual Fall Meeting on October 11 at
the Warren County Career Center.
This was the second year for CIS to attend this conference. They
presented information on the employment experiences offered them
through the CIS class. The Greenville City Schools has been
hiring students from the CIS class between their junior and senior
years to work over the summer with the network administrators to help
get the district’s computers ready for the school year. The hired
students were able to participate in a Progress Book training session
so they were able to work with the returning teachers as the district
changed to a different online grade book program. The students
continue to work after the school day on an as-needed basis. This
program provides an excellent opportunity to gain valuable work
experience.
Several of last year’s graduates have already secured positions in
computer related fields at GTI and Crown Equipment while continuing
their related education at Sinclair Community College. The CIS
program is a two-year program offered to juniors and seniors. It
is taught using Cisco’s online curriculum which prepares students for
the Cisco CCNA certification exam, the industry standard in computer
networking. CIS also covers IT Essentials which prepares students
for CompTIA’s A+ certification exam, which is the industry standard in
computer repair/help desk. Students have the opportunity to earn
up to sixteen to thirty semester hours of college credit while in high
school. Zeppelin Hoehn, Nicholas Venenga, and Kody Kitchen presented
for the CIS Program.
The Engineering Tech Prep Program also presented at the OSBA conference
for the second year in a row. The Gravitational Water Vortex
Power Plant is a horizontal form of the hydroelectric dam. The benefits
of using an artificially induced vortex above gravity- accelerated
water increases efficiency, decreases cost, and not only lowers the
negative impact on the environment, but actually increases the
sustainability and health of the river as a whole. The ingenious
invention was designed and developed by Franz Zotlterer, an Austrian
engineer, who saw the advantage of using this natural process.
For the 2012 Engineering 12 class at Greenville Senior High School,
teammates Chase Jenkinson, Lane Flora, and Scott Wirrig have chosen to
follow in the footsteps of the 2011 Engineering 12 class by further
researching and developing the project. With instructor Chris Sykes,
these students prepared a written report, portfolio, a new functioning
model, and a presentation to be used for various events. What makes
this project different from previous projects is its ability to go
further than the class itself. Students in Engineering Tech Prep have
the opportunity to earn up to sixteen semester hours of transferrable
credit at Edison St. CC with additional possibilities at Sinclair.
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