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Skills Champions

Alex Super, Nick Shepley, Matt LaDuke and Josiah Kreidler

Exciting news from our TEC students attending National SkillsUSA. Our students earned two gold medals and one silver, adding an exciting end to a full week in Kansas City. Nick Shepley took home the gold medal in Precision Machining. Alex Super took a gold in Mobile Electronics, a new contest in Automotive Technology. Josiah Kreidler and Matt LaDuke won the silver in Audio Production. Craig Wilder and James Quandt were just shy of earning a medal, coming in fifth place in Mechatronics.

Congratulations to all and thanks to Jennie Holladay, Duane Emig, Bob Timmerman and Brian Hunter for your extra effort.

Students show off “skills” in Kansas City

Seven St. Clair TEC students, along with four advisors, are participating in the SkillsUSA national competition in Kansas City, Missouri the week of June 23, 2008. The students -- Josiah Kreidler, Matthew LaDuke, Robert McLain, James Quandt, Nick Shepley, Alex Super and Craig Wilder -- earned the right to compete nationally by excelling in local, regional and state SkillsUSA contests. Throughout the week, Digital Media Instructor Jennie Holladay and students will be blogging about the competition and their overall adventure.                                                                                                      

http://tecchampions.blogspot.com/

DMT Instructor, Jennie Holladay

Donated equipment to help collision repair students

Mark Pedersen of St. Clair Collision Center recently showed St. Clair TEC students how to use an automobile frame straightening rack system. Mark and his wife, Barb, donated the device to TEC's collision repair program. S&S Towing donated its time and equipment to transport the rack to TEC. Craig Richards, the school-to-work coordinator at TEC, estimated the value of the donated system at between $5,000 and $10,000.

At the demonstration are, from left, Cody Brown, a junior from Memphis High School, Mark Pedersen, JJ Lasky, a senior from Marysville High School, Terry Seaton, a junior from Yale High School, and Eric Smith, a senior from Yale.

    Photo by Craig Richards, St. Clair County RESA

TEC team takes top spot in state auto repair competition

Two St. Clair County TEC students worked as a team to take first place at the state Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition, sponsored by AAA and the Ford Motor Co. Robert McLain, a senior at Yale High School, and Alex Super, a senior at St. Clair High School, will move on to the national contest June 22-24 in Dearborn. The students are seniors in TEC's Automotive Technology II program taught by Russ Cushion and Brian Hunter.

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           Alex Super, left, and Robert McLain.

Media students at TEC place 2nd in state contest

Josiah Kreidler and Nick Hoover placed second in the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation High School & College Excellence Awards in the Radio Public Service Announcement category. Kreidler and Hoover are students in the Digital Media Technology program. The two seniors wrote, produced and edited a radio Public Service Announcement for teenagers. Both seniors attend Port Huron Northern High School.

Regional BPA Competition 

Five members of the Business, Management and Administration program placed in the Business Professionals of America Regional Leadership Conference competition Friday, January 4 at Baker College of Port Huron, said St. Clair TEC instructor Robin Frontiero.

     They are:

Jack McVean - Memphis High School

1^st place in Integrated Office Applications

Amanda Lucido - Capac High School

2^nd Place in Database

Christina Doviak  - St. Clair High School

2^nd Place in Spreadsheet Applications

Trisha Kure - Marine City High School

3^rd Place in Basic Office Systems

Lisa Smith - Yale High School

4^th Place in Database

These students, along with two voting delegates, will attend the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference competition March 13-16 in Grand Rapids. The 15 local students who participated in the regional competition are members of the local chapter of Business Professionals of America.

The Business, Management and Administration program is offered through the Information Technology Academy of St. Clair County. Classes are held in the Technical Education Center of the St. Clair Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA) in Marysville.