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The Stafford Report: Meet the new faces of Stafford
Join us for the start of a new season of The Stafford Report. Meet the new faces at Stafford as we spend the first half of the show visiting with the new Assistant Director, Glenn Olson, and STEM Academy instructor, Brian Narkewicz. During the second half we’ll spend some more time learning about how the STEM Academy’s first year is going and chat with some students in the program.
Culinary Arts go Gleaning
Culinary Arts visited Wellsmere Farm Friday September 12th to fight waste and experience gleaning. Students coordinated with the Rutland Area Farm and Food Link’s Glean Team to collect 1018 pounds of tomatoes and 64 pounds of cabbage in 45 minutes! A sample of the organizations that received deliveries from this gleaning include the Young at Heart Senior Center in Poultney, the Castleton Cares food shelf, BROC in Rutland, the Open Door Mission in Rutland, the Community Cupboard in Rutland, and the Rutland County Parent Child Center in Rutland and Brandon. Congratulations to all involved for making this wonderful service learning opportunity available.
Opening Week 2014
Welcome back to all of our awesome students and staff. It has been a great first week! Our new Director, Ted Guilmette, cruised through his first welcome back assemble with ease and highlighted all the reasons we’ve chosen Stafford to be our home. We look forward to another great week next week and to seeing everyone at our fall open house (Sept. 4th @ 6pm).
Stafford Partners with UVM Watershed Alliance
Stafford Technical Center will be hosting the UVM Watershed Alliance: Watershed Wise teacher training on September 16th from 4:00-7:00 pm. This free teacher training is open to all educators and will provide tools to teach watershed health and promote environmental literacy. Attendees will work cooperatively with UVM Watershed Alliance staff and gain valuable hands-on training experiences.
Stafford is very excited to assist the UVM Watershed Alliance in hosting this training. For more information or to register for this event please contact Fieh Chan or the Watershed Alliance.
Limited student openings for 2014/2015 school year!
There are still a limited number of openings in our Construction Technology, Music: Jazz & Contemporary, and Public Safety: Law Enforcement programs. If you know of a student who is interested in exploring these exciting Stafford day programs or is uncertain about their plans for 2014/2015, please contact us at 770-1050. We would enjoy talking about these programs and are happy to provide a short tour to answer any questions you may have.
Already interested? You can apply online at:
https://staffordonline.org/for-students-null/im-ready-to-apply/
STC FCCLA team takes the Gold in San Antonio!
Stafford Technical Center Students Excel in STAR Event Competition at FCCLA National Leadership Conference
July 11, 2014 –More than 7,000 Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) members, advisers, alumni, and guests from across the country gathered in San Antonio for the 2014 National Leadership Conference. Jessica Alexzandrikc, a 2014 graduate of Rutland High School and Sarah Mace a senior from Mill River Union High School, were among the members and took part in STAR Event Competitions at the conference. Both were enrolled in the Stafford Technical Center Human Services Program during the 2013-2014 school year.
FCCLA offers over 30 Family and Consumer Sciences related events, also known as STAR (Students Taking Action with Recognition) events. These events include Illustrated Talk, Early Childhood, Job Interview, and Focus on Children to name a few. Members compete at the State and National level. This year, Alexzandrikc and Mace were among over 4200 STAR Event participants who competed this week in San Antonio. This is the largest number of competitors at any National STAR Events competition. Alexzandrikc and Mace competed as a team in the Focus on Children Event. Their project focused on helping teachers and future teachers learn how to work with children who have experienced trauma in their lives. Their project was titled, “Teaching With Trauma.” Jessica and Sarah received a gold medal in the event.
National Leadership Conference provided opportunities for students and advisers to come together for fun and to listen to inspiring speakers, as well as to expand their leadership skills, sharpen their talents and explore possible career pathways. The student originated theme of this year’s conference was “SOAR” and attendees were challenged to go beyond what was expected of them to make lasting, positive impressions in their families, schools and communities.
As part of that platform, FCCLA students who attended the meetings in San Antonio gathered and donated baby supplies for the on-site community service project, Operation Homefront. The students had the opportunity to present all of the baby supplies they collected to Operation Homefront, a non-profit organization that provides emergency, financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors. Operation Homefront will distribute the supplies through their Star Spangled Babies baby shower program. This program builds morale by providing baby showers to our service members and their growing families.
Stafford Takes Gold
Picture left to right: Nick Hill – Mason (STC/FHUHS), Jimmy Jefferson – Carpenter (SJA), Ryan Taylor – Plumber (STC/FHUHS), and Billy Brinks – Electrician (SJA)
Stafford Technical Center takes gold: STC students place 1st in the 2014 SkillsUSA Teamworks competition
Picture left to right: SkillsUSA mentor Tom Shannon (STC) , Nick Hill (STC/FHUHS), Ryan Eastman (STC/OVUHS), Ryan Taylor (STC/FHUHS), and SkillsUSA mentor John Bixby (STC)
Kansas City, Missouri – June 27, 2014: Stafford Technical Center students Ryan Taylor and Nick Hill from Fair Haven Union High School won Gold at the 2014 SkillsUSA National Conference. Teammates Jimmy Jefferson and Billy Brinks from St Johnsbury Academy rounded out the squad of four in the Teamworks competition where teams involving a carpenter, mason, electrician, and plumber build a project from a blueprint.
Whereas most four member teams are composed of members form the same school,the joint Stafford – St. Johnsbury teamwas an unusual case that put coaches John Bixby (Stafford) and Mike Bugbee (St. Johnsbury) at a disadvantage. Bixby and Bugbee won gold despite the fact that it is only the third year that theTeamworks competition has been offered at the state level. In total Vermont finished with 10 Gold, 1 Silver, and 3 Bronze medals.
Summer Camp Showcase
Stafford Technical Center is hosting three camps for 8th and 9th grade campers, which are run by Stafford instructors in concert with Stafford student assistants. The first camp, a Digital Photography camp hosted by Instructor Karen Kysar, will be holding a gallery show of campers’ work at 1:00 PM on Friday July 11, 2014 at the Stafford Technical Center in Rutland. It is open to the community at large, parents and friends of campers, and members of other Rutland Public School camps.
The second camp, entitled “Fun with Food”, hosted by Chef Instructor Lisa Fennimore, will be catering the gallery show and is preparing an exquisite selection of foodstuffs they have chosen to provide for the show.
The third camp, a Construction camp, was so successful this year that it doubled in size. To meet the demand, Construction Technology Instructor Jeff Fowler was added to the summer camp staff alongside Electrical and Plumbing Instructor John Bixby. This year, in an innovative partnership between schools and the business community, each of the 24 Construction Campers will be provided with a fully loaded large orange toolbox courtesy of Rutland’s Home Depot. The formal presentation of the toolboxes will take place at the same time as the gallery show.
Tapestry comes to Stafford
Stafford’s Carpentry Technology and Automotive Refinishing programs welcomed students from the Rutland County Tapestry program today.
Carpentry Technology father-daughter team Jeff and Abi Fowler helped students learn some of the basics as they each worked towards the goal of building a three legged stool by day’s end.
Tom Tresch, from Automotive Technologies, showed students the ropes as they apply their new learning to creating a custom painted Stafford decal.