Competition

At this year's ABC/Disney "Get Reel with Your Dreams" award ceremony, Channel 7 Eyewitness News co-anchor Sade Baderinwa presented $30,000 in college scholarship funds to five New York City high school students for their television work creating 30-second Pubic Service Announcements (PSAs). Baderinwa created the competition three years ago to introduce public high school students to top professionals in film and television.
 
Harry S Truman High School students Ian Denton and Ernesto Gonzalez took First Place for a PSA on child abuse. High School of Art & Design students received two awards: Jaquan Franklin won Second Place for a spot on HIV, and Elena Havas and Sebastion Lema took Third Place for a PSA  on teen suicide.All three Art & Design students were Finalists in the Tenth Annual Citywide Graphic Arts Competition last May.

At last week's SkillsUSA Championships in Kansas City, Missouri, a student from Thomas A. Edison CTE High School in Queens became the first New York City winner of the Gold Medal in the SkillsUSA National Competition in Internetworiking.  Herschel Bhasin, a Cisco student at Edison,  joined more than 5,600 outstanding career and technical education students—all state contest winners—competing in 94 different trade, technical and leadership fields.
 
At the annual event, students work against the clock and each other, proving their expertise in occupations like electronics, computer-aided drafting, precision machining, medical assisting and culinary arts.
 
Contests are run with the help of industry, trade associations, and labor organizations, and the test competencies are set by industry partners. In all, New York State students won 8 medals in 6 different competitions in Kansas City.
 
Congratulations to all the competitiors -- and their teachers -- for putting their CTE skills on display.

The Seventh Annual Service and Installation Competition held at W.H. Grady CTE High School last week tested students of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) technologies. Students from Grady in Brooklyn, Alfred E. Smith CTE High School in the Bronx and Saunders Trades and Technical High School in Yonkers were checked out in Burner Assembly, Combustion Analysis,  Burner Troubelshooting and Boiler Installation Completion. The event is sponsored by the NYC Service Managers Association and the Westchester Service Managers Association.
 
Sheepshead Bites, Sheepshead Bay's Only Independent News Blog, has the story and the video:
 

New York City CTE students had their best showing yet in this year's New York State SkillsUSA competition in Syracuse, April 13 – 15.  SkillsUSA New York City administrative trustee Denise Vittor spread the word congratulating the winners:
 
First Place Plumbing:
Natalie Kavral, Queens Vocational and Technical HS
 
Third Place Plumbing:  
Tristan Ponce, Queens Vocational and Technical HS
 
First Place Electronic Applications:  
Kelly Ann Kato, Queens Vocational and Technical HS
 
Third Place Electronics Technology:
Stephanie Gonzalez, Queens Vocational and Technical HS
 
Second Place Advertising Design:  
Leah Velez, Thomas Edison HS
 
Second Place Internet Working:    
Herschel Bhasin*, Thomas Edison HS
 
Third Place Computer Maintenance Technology: 
Moses Aronov, Thomas Edison HS
 
First place winners from the Sytacuse event will represent New York State in their respective CTE fields at the Skill USA National Conference, in Kansas City, MO from June 20 – 24.
 
Congratulations also go to Michael Smith from Alfred E. Smith HS who is now the New York State SkillsUSA vice president representing Area 5, New York City.
 
 
*That's two wins in one month for Herschel Bhasin who also took first place in the Cisco NetRiders contest.
 

Herschel Bhasin and Anthony Herbert, students at  Thomas A. Edison CTE High School in Queens, are advancing to the National Finals of the 2011 Cisco Networking Academy NetRiders Skills Challenge in the High School category. The Round Three Theater Finale includes top-ranked competitors from the  United States and Canada and will be held virtually on May 6. Best of luck to Herschel and Anthony and to their teacher John Rullan.
 

Nineteen New York City high school students are competing for $500,000 in scholarship money to some of the top culinary schools in the country. Part of C-CAP, the Careers through Culinary Arts Program founded in 1990 here in New York, the cooking component of the contest took place in Chelsea last this week, the interviews are next, and the winners will be named on April 29.
WINS 1010's Steve Sandberg covered the cooking competition on the radio, and CBS New York published the story on-line -- with a link to Steve's report: 19 NYC High School Students Cook for Scholarships
 

Click on the competition name to be taken to the organizer's website to view complete information on how to get involved.
 

SkillsUSA Championships

Category: Comprehensive (Arts, Business, Civic, Engineering, Law, 
Science, Technology)
This competition is the showcase for the best career and technical students in the nation. Contests begin locally and continue through the state and national levels. The Championships is a multi-million dollar event that occupies a space equivalent to 11 football fields. In 2004, there were over 4,500 contestants in 77 separate events. Nearly 1,500 judges and contest organizers from labor and management will make the national event possible. The philosophy of the Championships is to reward students for excellence, to involve industry in directly evaluating student performance and to keep training relevant to employers' needs.
 

DECA

Category: Comprehensive (Arts, Business, Civic, Engineering, 
Law, Hospitality, Science, Technology)

US-Canada Cisco Networking Academy High School/Secondary Students Can Win Prizes and Accolades!

 
Cisco Networking Academy is pleased to announce the US-Canada NetRiders Virtual Skills Challenge for high school/secondary students, which will be held from March 14–May 6, 2011 (not available in Quebec).
 
NetRiders is a virtual competition leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to enhance classroom learning. Participants are encouraged to achieve high standards of competence, develop their collaborative and technical skills, and further pursue IT education and training.

The Cisco Networking Academy US-Canada NetRiders Skills Challenge is open to high school/secondary students enrolled in Cisco IT-Essentials, CCNA Discovery, or CCNA Exploration course at a Cisco Networking Academy within the past nine (9) months. The competition is geared toward the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) exam, and includes an online theoretical exam and Cisco Packet Tracer activity.
 
 (Read more about the stages of the contest and download resources after the jump.)

Students from the High School of Fashion Industries designed handbags for men and women for the Allegri fashion house in a recent design contest, and some of their work is on display in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue at Fifth Avenue and 49th Street. Fox Good Day New York interviewed three students and Principal Daryl Blank:

 Allegri is donating 15 percent of their total sales through October 26 to the school. Of the 34 contest winners, Allegri has manufactured five of the students' designs.
 

Students at Art & Design High School were targeted by Junior Achievement League of New York to participate in a pilot with Fashion Fantasy Game (http://www.fashionfantasygame.com/). This Internet game requires students to use their entrepreneurial skills to run an internet business. The students had to design garments, design space and market their wares. It was a mini lesson in entrepreneurship in the fashion world. The program concludes today with the announcement of the winners. The winners will have their garments constructed and a runway show will be held at Lim College on June 1. The students will also shadow at Diane von Furstenberg during the summer.

The students were interviewed on April 13th, answering questions about their involvement in the game. See the ABC story online: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7384271