Caden is done with his final project! He made a card sorting box in Mr. Opdahl’s Carpentry/Cabinetry class with even a hidden compartment! Great work Caden!
Our next “See the Vision” winner is ready and confident for his next step. Our winner sort of grew up at the CTE Academy taking nine classes with us – Robotics, Baking and Pastries, Research and Writing, Intro to Audio/Visual, CTE Explorations, Speech, Accounting I, Banking and Credit and Financial Services and now Carter Hall is ready for the next step. Carter Hall is a senior from @siouxfallswarriors and will soon be a freshman at the University of South Dakota studying finance and business. Carter came to us as a freshman in high school and has always demonstrated to us the willingness to learn. As Carter began to hone in on career pursuits, he put his sights on our Academy of Finance program. His teacher of the AOF program, Mrs. Brunken said, “I fully expect Carter to be the an expert cryptocurrency consultant and great financial advisor for investors. Carter is a role model, a leader, wants to learn and wants to provide financial knowledge to the business community.” Carter, we have watched you take many steps in the halls of the CTE Academy. We are confident your next steps will lead you down the pathway of persistence, preparation and achievement! We will be proud to call you – CTE Alumni!
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Learn by doing! EMT students went to visit the auto tech class and found some patients stuck in the vehicles that they needed to extricate out! Future medical professionals getting hands on practice.
Parent/guardian feedback is important to SFSD! We just launched a 7-question survey - which takes 5 minutes or less - to help guide the next steps toward becoming the BEST school district in the nation!
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The survey is open until the end of the school year. Take the survey once for each child enrolled. If you prefer to only take it on, please reference the oldest child in your household. Thanks for your participation!
Guiding Youth and Families hosted a blood drive at the CTE Academy. The students learned about what it takes to host a blood drive, presented information about the Community Blood Bank to all CTE classes and recruited donors. Many students were first time donors. Together donors were able to donate 68 units of blood for the community!
Biomed 2 students visited the campus of SDSU. Students enjoyed excellent medical career information and of course the infamous SDSU ice cream!
Thanks to Chad Hunt and the Sanford Pentagon for hosting the CTE Media Arts students. Students were able to
operate the game day production equipment as well as be the players. Our students were introduced just like the starting line-up and we are just as proud of them!
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The AOF program visited Premier Center this week to learn about the Entertianment Business Industry. Exciting to learn how events not only affect the venue but how it impacts our community with shopping, hotels, and restaurants. The Premier Center is very popular for smaller events and will be focusing on new renovation to the Arena to be able to host larger events in the future. Thank you to Heather, Stu and Blake for taking the time to show us how important customer services is for more artist and events to want to come to Sioux Falls!
Intro to Media Arts class was happy to welcome Donna Herbel from Red Cardinal Insurance for a logo pitch. The students have been challenged to create a professional level logo for the new company. Stay tuned to see their final creations!"
Parent of a middle school student? Check out the great camps the CTE Academy is offering this summer! Middle school is a critical time for children to make a deeper connection with their career interests, preferences, and strengths. Register today at www.ctecareercamps.com! Special thanks to all of this year's middle school camp sponsors!
📌 Reminder!
🌷 Spring Break starts tomorrow!
There will be NO school Friday, April 15, and Monday, April 18, 2022.
See you on Tuesday, April 19!
📌 Reminder!
🌷 Spring Break starts tomorrow!
There will be NO school Friday, April 15, and Monday, April 18, 2022.
See you on Tuesday, April 19!
Another part of the CTE experience is preparing and exposing students to career fairs. Students taking classes at the CTE Academy, regardless of grade level, are given the opportunity to attend a career fair offered right at the CTE Academy.
This year, in addition to being offered to all CTE students, the experience was also extended to students at Joe Foss and Jefferson High School, as well as students part of the RHS JAG (Jobs for America’s Graduates - more on that program coming tomorrow!) pilot program. There were just over 50 businesses represented and 15 unique colleges. Staff prepared students for the experience by modeling appropriate career fair behavior, helping students prepare questions for vendors, and reviewing the list of attendees for students to make a plan of who they would like to talk with. The businesses in attendance were given table cards to represent ways students could engage with their business (job shadow, internship, employment, apprenticeship) which helped students identify which businesses may offer an experience a student is looking for.
Principles of Biomed students visited Sanford Research to learn about cancer. Students analyzed DNA samples to determine if the cancer genes were present in all cells or just the tumor cells.
Mark your calendars! The last day of school will be Wednesday, May 25th, 2022.
The Sioux Falls School Board approved a recommendation at their meeting tonight to move the last day of school from Tuesday, May 24, 2022 to Wednesday, May 25, 2022 due to the one day of school missed for inclement weather in December.
Cybersecurity students took a break from catching bad guys to “printing” bad guys (Pac-man ghosts). During last week’s Junior testing at the high schools, students learned how to make their own GCode files to make pancakes.
Friday ended with the CTE Academy staff celebrating our very own Mr. Ryswyk for Assistant Principal’s Week! He goes above and beyond to create such a positive experience for our students and staff at CTE. Thank you for everything you do at the CTE Academy Mr. Rsywyk!
Health Career 2 students are learning the importance of oral health care and assistive dining!
Health Career 2 students are learning the importance of oral health care and assistive dining!
Robotics students took their lesson to a higher level with imagination and creativity. The goal was to place a designated object on a higher elevation utilizing the gripper effector. Students created a method to lift the front of the robot to a higher level to place said object on a platform.
Great work Robotics students!
