Omelet Fundraiser to help fund SkillsUSA national contestants

Saturday, May 4th  and Sunday May 5^th  come out and support Columbia Area Career Center's Culinary Arts  Program and sample a delicious omelet as part of their Annual Omelet Fundraiser.  

Omelets will be cooked to order with a variety of local ingredients (see link for full list of ingredients).

http://caccculinary.blogspot.com/p/farmers-market-fundraisers.html

The event will raise money to help send  students Hailey King (Culinary Arts) and Heather Pitt (Commercial Baking) to the SkillsUSA National Competition.

Saturday May 4th from 8:00am – 12:00pm at Columbia Farmer's Market
(between the Arc and West Jr. High School)
Culinary Arts students will be cooking omelets.

Look for us  in the large tent just to the South of the main vendor rows on the grass.

Sunday May 5^th from 9:00am – 1:00pm at the North Village Arts District Farmers and Artisans Market
(located just North of Walnut and Orr Streets in the Wabash Bus Station parking lot)
Culinary Arts students  will be cooking omelets and selling assorted baked goods. 
 "To Go"  boxes of  baked goods will also be available for  $2 each or  $10 for a half dozen.

Hope you can make it and please tell your friends. 

CACC Culinary instructors  Brook Harlan,  Jeff Rayl, and Carri Risner thank you for your support.

Check out what other culinary delights they have to offer at:

www.caccculinary.blogspot.com

FBLA State Competition Results

Future Business Leaders of America held their annual State Convention in Columbia, Missouri April 22-23, 2013. Advisers Kristi Deneke and Colleen Goss are proud to announce the results:

Ryan Frappier:  1st place  HTML 5
                           6th place Database Design & Application

Cody Wilson:     7th place Business Law

UMKC Representative Visits CACC Digital Media Department

Digital Media Instructors Patrick Sasser, Sandy Morrow, Kristi Deneke and Jeff Cochran
 and UMKC rep Leonor Jurado Laspina

The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) offers college credit to eligible Columbia Area Career Center (CACC) students for the work they do and the competencies they master in our four digital media classes. As part of our dual credit partnership with UMKC, Leonor Jurado Laspina, UMKC Art and Art History Department faculty member, visited us recently and spent the day with faculty and students in our Digital Media Department.

Faculty site visits assure that university courses offered at the career center through the dual credit program are equivalent to the courses offered on campus.  Ms. Jurado Laspina visited with our Digital Media faculty and viewed student work to confirm that students in our Digital Media class (UMKC ART 114 Foundation Digital Design) and our Graphic Design class (UMKC ART 121 Foundation 2D Design) are held to the same expectations and standards of achievement as those students in on-campus sections of the classes. This assurance is required by university dual credit programs that maintain national accreditation through the National Association of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships, as UMKC does.

UMKC site visits also provide ongoing faculty interaction to address course content, course delivery, assessment and student evaluation as well as research and development in the field.   According to Sandy Morrow, CACC Digital Media and Graphic Design instructor, “It was a great opportunity to discuss curriculum and share resources.”  Jeff Cochran, CACC Digital Media and Digital Video/Motion Graphics instructor, commented that “It’s always nice to validate what we are doing here at the career center.” 

The career center’s Dual Credit program continues to grow.  This year 312 high school students enrolled in 370 dual credit courses at the career center for which they will earn a total of 1,161 semester hours of college credit.

Laser/Photonics Students Visit Indian Hills Laser/Electro-Optics Program

Laser/Photonics Technology students made an overnight campus visit to Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) in Ottumwa, IA.  IHCC is one of the nation’s premier comprehensive two-year colleges known for excellence in cutting-edge advanced applied science and technology degree programs with impressive graduate placement rates and starting salaries.  The college is nationally recognized in the area of Laser/Electro-Optics training.

CACC partners with IHCC through the articulation process.  This partnership provides our students a jump-start into the IHCC Laser/Electro-Optics degree program by awarding 12 semester hours of college credit for the competencies they master while studying Laser/Photonics Technology at CACC.

While on campus, Career Center students visited the IHCC Advanced Technology Center and participated with IHCC Laser/Electro-Optics students in lab and real-world problem-solving activities.

CACC Laser Tech and Photonics students at IHCC

Tom Rubel, IHCC Executive Dean of Regional Economic Advancement, explains why graduates of

     advanced technology degree programs such as Laser/Electro-Optics are in such high demand and  the role

 IHCC plays in meeting those demands nationally.

Marlos Hickam, a 2011 Career Center and Hickman High School graduate now
 completing the final semester of the IHCC Laser/Electro-Optics program,
demonstrates the SPI 50-watt fiber laser with femto-second pulsing,
used in manufacturing applications

Daniel Henderson and Jevon Bailey, both 2011 Career Center and Hickman High School graduates
now in the final semester of the IHCC Laser/Electro-Optics program, fired up a Spectra-Physics Nd:YAG laser,
tested the invisible beam and explained how the laser pumps other lasers for use in educational applications
and in research.

Career Center students test the power of the Xanar CO2 laser used in medical applications. 

Project Lead the Way in Columbia Public Schools

Columbia Public Schools is completing its first year as a registered Project Lead the Way (PLTW) school district, teaching STEM-science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum. Read the full article in the Columbia Missourian on the impact it has made.

View the STEM presentation from the Columbia School Board meeting.

Civil Engineering Students Tour Bagnell Dam

Bagnell Dam

After studying about dams in Civil Engineering class, 45 of Brad Mann's students visited Bagnell Dam. Hosted by Ameren UE, the students toured the dam from the bottom, below lake level, all the way to the top, viewing the powerhouse and all the inner workings of a dam. In addition to a presentation on the history and construction of the dam, the students learned about how electricity is created from the force of moving water and the environmental impact involved with building a dam.

Civil Engineering students at Bagnell Dam

Eight Columbia FFA teams competed at the State Level on April 18 and 19 in Columbia, Missouri. The results are as follows:

Poultry Evaluation   1st Place
(advised by Kevin Duncan)

• Kassie Rankin (HHS)
• Lainyn Kerley (RBHS)-top individual score
• Michelle Ross (RBHS)
• Rachel Kirchhofer (RBHS)

Ag Mechanics  2nd Place
(advised by Larry Henneke)

• Alan Perry  (HHS)
• Austin Wallace (HHS)
• Joe Ege  (HHS)
• Eva Quattrocchi (RBHS)

Soils Team  3rd Place
(advised by Larry Henneke)

• Ashley Cleveland (HHS)
• Shelby Wilson (RBHS)
• Daniel Martz (HHS)
• Jaime Vaughn (RBHS)

Forestry  4th Place
(advised by Larry Henneke)

• Grant Gould (RBHS)
• Kira Kirk (RBHS)
• Sarah Darr (HHS)
• Kelly Wilsdorf  (HHS)

Meats   4th Place
(advised by Kevin Duncan)

• Maddie Grant (RBHS)
• Kaitlyn Epperson (RBHS)
• Loyal Carpenter (HHS)
• Bailey Peters (HHS)

Horses  6th Place
(advised by Kevin Duncan)

• Hannah Corbin (HHS)
• Austin DeHaven (RBHS)
• Paige Martin (RBHS)
• Holly Wegner (HHS)

Nursery   6th Place

(advised by Larry Henneke)

• Drew Atkins (HHS)
• Quinn Pestle (RBHS)
• Jordan Craig (RBHS)
• Adele Fritz (HHS)

Dairy Cattle  14th Place
(advised by Chuck Miller)

• Jessica Brown  (HHS)
• Taylor Forsythe (HHS)
• Ashlynn Girard  (HHS)
• Alyssa Strawn (HHS)

Natural Resources*    1st Place

• Sarah Darr
• Lainyn Kerley
• Kira Kirk
• Grant Gould
• Jordan Craig

Congratulations to the Poultry Evaluation and Natural Resources teams who placed first and will advance to National Competition in Louisville, Kentucky in October.

*The Natural Resources team competed last fall and was recognized at the state convention