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Maine Career and Technical Education Portal
News & Events
Archive: March 2010
LRVC CNA Graduate Pursues Her Dreams at NMCC
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Corey Westleigh is a graduate of Lake Region Vocational Center's Health Occupations Program. As a two-year student, she became a Certified Nurse Assistant and also earned certifications from the American Heart Association in First Aid and CPR. While a junior, she represented LRVC at the SkillsUSA Maine conference and won a gold medal in Prepared Speech. Cory went on to represent the state in the SkillsUSA National Conference in Kansas City. As a senior, Corey developed leadership... |
March 31st 2010
Carpentry Class Receives Eco-Excellence Award
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Mr. Kehoe's Carpentry class has received an eco-Excellence award for studying and applying sustainable building practices. To read full article, click here. |
Students at Maine VEX competition place 2nd
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Saturday, March 27th several students from the Robotics Program participated in the Maine VEX competition held at the University of Maine. Eighteen teams from New England arrived seeking the winner's position. UTC's Team 1995A entered the eliminations in last place and made it to the finals with a 2nd place win (same as last year). R. J. Perry, a two year graduate from the Robotics Program now furthering an engineering degree at UM, was an assistant with the competiton. The winner of... |
Mid-Coast School of Technology holds lock-down safety drill
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As reported by Andrew Benore, Village Soup, Knox County Rockland — The Mid-Coast School of Technology held a lock-down safety drill March 22 to practice in case there is ever a threat to the school. |
MCST Welcomes New Graphics Instructor
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MCST is excited to introduce our newest instructor, Brandon Koons, teacher of the Graphics Art Program. Brandon has brought a fresh talent to our graphics art program at MCST. During his interview we were dazzled by his diverse qualifications. He brings state of the art knowledge in many facets of the graphics and design field and his work with theater enhances his video talents. His comfort level with web-page design allows him to not only teach this in the classroom but to share it on a... |
MCST Takes Five Medals at SkillsUSA
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Twenty students from the Mid-Coast School of Technology in Rockland attended the 2010 SkillsUSA Champions State of Maine Competition in Bangor, held March 11 and 12. Bringing together students, teachers, and industry representatives, SkillsUSA works towards ensuring America has a skilled work force. This national, nonprofit, leadership organization serves students, high school and college, who are preparing for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations, including health... |
MCST Co-op Student Earns Animal Rescue Team Certification
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Congratulations to Adam Russell, a student at Medomak Valley High School and a member of the Mid-Coast School of Technology Co-op Work program, on participation in his first Lincoln County CART (County Animal Response Team) meeting. Adam has completed his Incident Command System course and received his ICS-100 certification. This is the first level of training through FEMA. In the case of an emergency, Adam is part of a team providing search, rescue, and care for domestic animals. |
FBLA is Simply the Best!
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Lake Region Vocational Center's Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Chapter once again brought home the awards and trophies. Pictured above (l to r) are: Shawn Durst (2nd Place Job Skills), Caitlyn Paul (2nd Place Spreadsheets, 2nd Place Word Processing II, and Jemalee Tracy (1st Place Job Skills). All three students are enrolled in business education courses. FBLA is a premier business education association preparing students for careers in business while focusing on FBLA focuses on... |
Row Row Row Your Boat!!!!!!
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One of the many programs that the Diversified Occupation's students get to take part is learning how to build things in Construction Technology. We're not talking bird houses here!!! This is a picture of their most recent project, along with the students who helped build it. This year, they have built three of these great prams, and you can purchase one of them for $500. For an extra $50 they will even make you a pair of hand crafted oars! What a great gift for someone who own's... |
Building Construction Students Build Cabinets for Rumford Information Booth
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Region 9’s second year building construction students built cabinets for the Rumford Information Booth. This was a community service project supervised by Cliff Thurston under the direction of Lloyd Williams, Region 9 building construction instructor. Last spring Ron Russell, volunteer for the Rumford Information Booth, contacted Lloyd Williams, and communicated the needs of the organization. The project worked into the cabinet making unit of the curriculum. Ron Russell said the students... |
