New Market Skills Center
Announcing a New Program Pathway: Master Esthetician!
This program will start this summer and go through the school year. Please contact us for more information or enroll now on our website for summer school!
Wenatchee Valley Tech - Fire Science students study how air currents affect a house fire, while 9th Grade students from Eastmont toured their facility.
Cascadia Tech's Criminal Justice students volunteered 500+ hours at the Portland Roadster Show. Erik Estrada, "Ponch" on CHiPs was there. Mr. Estrada was a reserve police officer (RPO) in IN, an I.C.A.C investigator in VA, a (RPO) in ID. As of 2023, he taught internet safety and is involved in many police charities.
State SkillsUSA this past weekend:
New Market Skills Center students conducted themselves with maturity and professionalism and brought home 10 medals including two gold, allowing those two students to move on to nationals! Also impressive was that we had medalists from six different programs: Culinary, Nurse Assistant, Medical Assistant, Construction, Video Game Programming, and Firefighting (who swept the competition)!
Thank you to the team of advisors and to all those who helped make this happen. #CTE #SkillsSUSA
"The Core Plus Aerospace internship sets me up for success. We got to be very hands on and learn from other students that have done it before and people that have been in this industry for many years." Zatieya Mitchell, Sno-Isle TECH Skills Center
Learn about the internship and apply https://coreplusaerospace.org/resources/internship/
The WANIC HOSA Team recently traveled to the multi-day State Leadership Conference in Spokane. All students were phenomenal and each made WANIC Skills Center so very proud! Several placed in the top ten in their events. They were actively networking, team building, supportive of their fellow competitors, and overall, such an amazing group of young scholars. The students learned a lot and our juniors are excited to return next year! Congrats to all who participated!
SkillsUSA!
This past weekend, our New Market FITErs won the top 3 spots at the Skills USA Washington state competition. We are so incredibly proud of all of our FITErs who participated and competed. Thank you for representing FITE so well! We also want to give a huge thank you to Cameron and our other New Market instructors who dedicated their time and effort in helping these students strive and prepare for this competition. Next stop…nationals in June!
Pictured: Brendon won first, Mike won second, and Reece won third.
WANIC students from the DigiPen Art & Animation, DigiPen Game Design, DigiPen Music & Sound Design and DigiPen Video Game Programming competed at Washington Technology Student Association (WTSA) last week. 25 Students competed against students from schools across the state in a variety of events. DigiPen teams took 2nd and 3rd in Video Game Design and placed top 5 in Animation. Pictured are four of the students who placed for the Video Game Design event. Congratulations to all students who worked hard to compete!
We had another great weekend at the SkillsUSA Washington SLSC.
Congratulations to the Tri-Tech students that made it on the podium!
We will be headed back to Atlanta in June for the SkillsUSA National competition!
The CBTECH Fire Science students brought "home" their own fire engine! An Inter-local agreement between the Moses Lake School District and the City of Moses Lake made it possible to bless this program with one of the most valuable assets next to the firefighters, that a fire department has! Students will now have access everyday to their apparatus and tools and be able to maximize their training days at school! Thank you Moses Lake Firefighters for continuing to invest in the next generation of firefighters!
Congratulations to CBTECH students Michael Minor, Cael Castro and Jonathan Acevedo Gutierrez, who were 3 of 6 students that signed on for the apprenticeship opportunity at Genie last night! These students were selected to receive this opportunity out of almost 50 applicants. Way to go!
The CBTECH Fire Science students took advantage of the warm winter days that we've had to spend some time with the Moses Lake Firefighters for some more hand-on training. What a fun couple of days' it's been for them.
Our CBTECH Fire Science students spent their morning with the Moses Lake Firefighters working on their skills! Students were training on wearing SCBA's, knots and hoisting tools, taking hydrants, and using extrication tools!
Our CBTECH Culinary Arts students assisted in the luncheon that was provided to the Wahluke Administration during their meeting lunch break. The students served Chicken Parmesan with a side of broccolini.
CBTECH hosted their annual welding competition this past November. Competitors came from neighboring districts for a full day of welding fun! Thank you to all the schools who participated and to the students for all their efforts. These competitions are always a ton of fun! Connell HS took 1st place, CBTECH in 2nd and Eastmont in 3rd.
Our ProMed classes have been working on understanding patients with impairments. Students having been using different types of hands on tools that can replicate symptoms of the hearing and seeing impaired and even have some tools that can make the students joints feel stiff like if they had arthritis. Understanding the effects of these impairments is crucial in the healthcare field.
CBTECH hosted our annual Advisory Boards banquet. Advisory Boards are our industry partners that help programs decide what our pathways need to be teaching! As you can tell it was a very special and successful evening. We appreciate all the support given to CBTECH and our students.
Thank you Genie Industries for having the CBTECH staff over for a tour, we quite enjoyed it.
Fire Science is a new program this year and so far the kids are loving it! Here the students are getting some hands on training on fire extinguishers.
Lan Johnson stopped by to visit his former Criminal Justice teacher Dave Ruffin. Lan just graduated from the US Marine Corp. Congratulations Lan and thank you for your service!
