McAdory High School students attended the State DECA Career Development Conference in Montgomery on February 15-16. Nikki Morris won in Marketing Management, Sarah Patton won in Sports and Entertainment Marketing, and DeAndre Bryant was selected as State DECA District 1 Vice President for the 2010-2011 school year. Morris and Patton will be competing in Kentucky at the DECA International Career Development Conference on April 24-28
Mortimer Jordan High School's FBLA, and Career Technical Education were featured in an article titled "Mortimer Jordan honors area veterans" in The North Jefferson News. The full article can be found on their website.
http://www.njeffersonnews.com/local/x546291226/Mortimer-Jordan-honors-area-veterans
Lynn Giedinghagen was named Teacher of the Year by the VFW on February 24th
Vicky Gary’s Cosmetology students from Hueytown High School won 1st and 3rd place at the Torch Invitational at Bevill State Community College on February 5th
Marsy Moreno won 1st place trophy and a 1000.00 scholarship
Tenika Beamon won 3rd place (certificate)
Kiara Oden (certificate of participation)
Bryan and Matthew Crowson visited Becky Mauldin's class at Mortimer Jordan High School to talk about writing game reviews. That's Bryan wearing a tie, and Matthew beside him wearing a black blazer.
The class is preparing to write reviews of their own about games, movies or television shows, and they were interested in our process for reviewing games. Bryan and Matthew enjoyed the lively interest of the students and the exchange of ideas, because many of them share the same passion for gaming!
The FBLA at Rudd Middle School held a canned food drive in November and December of 2009 collecting over 700 canned goods to donate to a local food pantry.