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2015 SkillsUSA Championships The SkillsUSA Championships are competitive events showcasing the best career and technical education students in the nation. Contests begin locally and continue through the state and national levels.

This is a multi-million dollar event that occupies a space equivalent to 16 football fields.

In 2014, there were nearly 6,000 contestants in 98 separate events. Nearly 1,500 judges and contest organizers from labor and management 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.

Congratulations to the OCC Florida State Champions. Veronica O., David H., Alex L., Stephanie H., Molly H., Jocelyn H., and Tyler B.

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10 Years in a ROW CAA National Championships

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The Charles Depalma Award

Best of Show Student Division

2016 Florida Print Awards Sponsored by the Printing Association of Florida Tampa Bay Tech - Commercial Art Academy

6 Best of Category Awards

Kelsea Andrews, T’yanna Moore, Daniel Baez, Alanah Cooper, Hadeal Qdeih, and Michael Hicks.

6 Awards of Excellenece

Bessan Hasan, Nabil Sekirime, Murzia Siddiqui, Paola Solarte,, Jorgina Sungahid and Lissian Poochool.

3 Judge’s Honorable Mention

Amani Taha, Alyssah Serrano and Bu’niesha Kitt

Congratulations T’yanna Moore Best of Category and Best of Show.

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restaurant for years in our community. Our CAA President (Mary Abukhdeir) and our Vice President (Molly Huynh) connected with the managers over at Cici’s Pizza and the date and times were set. Thursday October 22nd, 2015 from 4-9pm.

Now we begin our first fundraising event. Students begin to “cold call” several restaurants in the Temple Terrace area of Tampa. Being a magnet school, we have students that attend Tampa Bay Tech from all over our county. Our school has a great standing relationship with the local community of Temple Terrace, so we try to focus our events in this area. Unfortunately, not all restaurants provide fundraising opportunities but we are grateful of the ones that do. Cici’s Pizza has been a family friendly buffet/

We began to promote around the school with our infamous promotional posters. We also went to viral social media marketing via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Students not only shared this event with friends and families but also connected with alumni and reached out to them with an invite.

Needless to say, we did our best to promote our event within a month.

As the date began to approach, we kept encouraging students to show up with their friends and/or families and participate. Aside from having the camaraderie within our shop, this also serves to help fundraise and support our career club; SkillsUSA. Every little bit counts.

Prices for membership, travel, and more continue to rise and we all are tightening our pockets to save and spend where it is needed. This is where we as creatives begin to step in

s we begin in the new school year, our incredible group of student officers, begin to organize, plan, and coordinate several student activities for our career shop. We plan these events throughout the year to give our current group of students the opportunity to get involved on our shop. This helps to strengthen our academy. Having nine different courses where only a few levels interact in certain periods is great but events that are on or off campus, presents the opportunity for the underclassman to finally meet our upperclassman. Yoda and Luke Skywalker type of vibe.

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and see what can be done to build our club funds to ensure all active members can participate on the regional, state, and possibly national levels. SkillsUSA is a whole other topic. I can save my thoughts on that for another time.

were all smile and thanking us (Mr. Naylor and myself) on how well we work with the students and have events like this to build a strong support system in our class/club. It was humbling. Another added factor to the event; we challenged our Juniors and Seniors to attend and do market research to 4pm rolls around. I know that several students were on “re-brand” the Cici’s logo brand identity. We made it an extra their way to Cici’s. Our school is not too far so I planned on credit grade. There were some amazing ideas and it seemed leaving 15-20 minutes before. My luck, I got stuck at Tech to motivate our students to not only attend an fun event but also research a local spot to help develop ideas.

Charlie Brown’s infamous “Aaaauurgh”] I ‘carefully’ rush out to Cici’s and to my surprise, there were already three tables I had only planned to see until pushed together and rows of students/families seated; it 6pm. Well that did not happen. was an awesome sight to see. We had all class levels in We promoted the event to end attendance and the atmosphere was fantastic. Students, at 9pm; I stayed until around parents, friends, teachers, and alumni were all in attendance. 8pm. Thats when the majority of our students and families began to leave. Needless to say, it was trio (Tram Pham, Amani Taha, and Hadeal Qdeih). They all an amazing way to kick off the were please to see how well promoted and organized the year and I look forward to see the response and turnout at our current students did an amazing job. Parents and friends next event. •••

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written by: Molly Huynh

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Halloween to all! Trick or Treat street has been a phenomenal experience for High school and preschool students. The event consists of interactions with music, games, candy, and meeting the most adorable children in the world!

in tossing a ring onto the witches hats! Followed by Witches Ring Toss was our coloring booth which many students visited, practicing their coloring skills for their future

The Commercial Art Academy provided a booth with activities such as coloring and a unique ring toss game. Our class president, Mary Abukhidir, and I, Vice President, put our creativity to the test and recreated a mock up of the Witches Ring Toss which we put in time and holiday spirit to create! We wanted to provide the children with a game that they would absolutely enjoy participating in, and Witches Ring Toss was the in the Commercial Art Academy! winner! Children cheered and Alongside the Commercial Art jumped for joy as they succeeded booth was other programs and clubs

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which had also provided students with fun-filled Halloween activities.

Overall, my first experience with Trick Or Treat street was amazing! I enjoyed putting in the time and effort to entertain children.

For example, Vet Lab brought their own petting zoo for the the children to interact with!

Smiles flooded the whole gymnasium as every individual realized the effort students put in to bring joy into the Halloween spirit! From face painting to ring tosses, children were in the end; satisfied with their visit at TBT’s annual Trick-or-Treet street!

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Written by: Tyler Boudreau (SkillsUSA Florida - Region IV Reporter)

SkillsUSA Florida recently held their yearly

SLTW

(State Leadership Training Workshop), an event that trains Regional Officers and other members on how to be a great leader for their chapters. This is done by

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ver the course of three days, management, and planning out I was exposed to a variety chapter meetings effectively.

of activities that strengthened my comprehension on what it takes to be Day two was on WE focusing on a leader. Each day was centralized on

how to find leadership success for

a different component of leadership.

a chapter as a unit. The sessions

activities and lessons given by SkillsUSA

were comprised of group activities

Advisors and Alumni. Members that

Day one was about the ME side, including project building, problem

should attend SLTW are ones that want

which focused on what you yourself

solving as a team, and handling

to get the most out of their leadership

must do to better yourself as a

chapter meetings accordingly.

potential and prepare them for the

leader of your chapter. Activities

tasks as a Regional/Chapter Officer.

included personal goal setting, time

Day three was focused on DO,

This three day program was

putting

everything

held at the Lake Yale Baptist

learned from the previous

Center, in Leesburg FL. Being

days into action. Problems

a participant of this event,

were thrown at us that

I was able to take in what

challenged our knowledge

SLTW was all about, and it

on

leadership

as

we

an

individual and as a team.

was a major success.

L to R: Tyler, Jocelyn, Veronica, David

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While we’ll be looking back at our amazing journey over the years, it’s important to look toward the future. We’re focused on helping all our current members realize their full potential. As you develop the technical and professional skills that come through SkillsUSA, take a moment to celebrate how you personally are helping to move our schools, communities and nation forward.

-Tim Lawrence, Executive Director of SkillsUSA (Champions Magazine - Fall 2014)

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2015 SKILLSUSA FLORIDA

STATESMAN AWARD The purpose of this award is to acknowledge a students demonstration of SkillsUSA

knowledge. The Statesman Award is presented each year to students during SkillsUSA Florida State Leadership Training Workshop (SLTW). This award recognizes students who have demonstrated their leadership skills and have mastered certain requirements in leadership training. This is the highest individual honors a SkillsUSA member can earn at the state level.

In order to receive the award, participants must: • Master all requirements for the Statesman Award at the Fall Leadership Conference.

• Recite the answers to the SkillsUSA knowledge questions and the civic awareness questions to a State Officer. Have the officer initial the spaces by all of the oral and written questions which he or she has reviewed.

Each officer may only sign off on three lines.

• Complete the two essay assignments and attach to your completed Statesman form.

• Attend and actively participate in all SLTW functions and sessions.

Answers to the Statesman can be found in the SkillsUSA National w e b s i t e ( w w w. s k i l l s u s a . o r g ) , t h e U S H o u s e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e’s w e b s i t e ( w w w. h o u s e . g o v / r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s ) , t h e S k i l l s U S A F l o r i d a w e b s i t e ( w w w. skillsusaf l.org), and by web searches.

SkillsUSA Region IV Officers: President. Grace Drake, Vice President Anna Ciurczak, Secretary Jocelyn Hall, Historian Veronica Ortiz, Reporter Tyler Boudrea, Parliamentarian Angie Reyes, Technology Coordinator David Henley, Sargent At Arms Brittany Vanatta

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uring this time, I was

advisors that handle preparation only improve myself, forgetting

also focused on earning for the State Conference, as well as about the people around me. I

the Statesman pin, an award that

doing community service. SLTW

learned that it takes more than just

recognizes SkillsUSA and basic benefitted me with an experience myself to run a successful chapter civic knowledge. This is the highest

meeting. It takes an effort from

honor that SkillsUSA Florida can

everyone, and SLTW gave me that

award to a member, and it is only

view of finding success as a leader

achievable at SLTW.

of my chapter.

Those who earn it can proudly

“It was a great training to be

where it on there SkillsUSA

apart of and I recommend it to any SkillsUSA member.�

Blazer, dignifying them for their achievement.

SLTW was also the place for that changed my view on what it recruitment into Courtesy Corps,

means to be a great leader. Before I

which is the group of students and

was more focused on how I should

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A AdvisoryBoard Tim Boatright & Bill Longstreth Co-Chairmen

Tim Boatright • Vice President Creative tboatright@maiusa.com Marketing Associates USA Bill Longstreth • Manager Creative Services wrlongstreth@tecoenergy.com Tampa Electric Steve Adams • Marketing Manager sadams@lazydays.com Lazydays Ernie Nieves • Associate Creative Director ernie.nieves@gmail.com Bisk Education Klaus Herdocia • Art Director kherdoci@health.usf.edu USF Health - University of South Florida Dorian Angello • Instructor dorian@beachaus.com Ringling College of Art & Design Jason Sexton • Director of Marketing jsexton@rnrwheels.com RNR Custom Wheels & Tires Scot & Anne Marie Criswell Interface Design Consultant - The UI Guy, Inc.

Jeff Eakins Superintendent

Board members Susan L. Valdes, Chair Doretha W. Edgecomb, Vice Chair April Griffin Sally A. Harris Carol W. Kurdell Melissa Snively Cindy Stuart

The School Board of Hillsborough County, Florida, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, or age in its programs, services, activities or in its hiring and employment practices. School Board Policy 6.01 ensures equal opportunity for all in its personnel policies and practices.

The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination guidelines: Charles W. Raburn, General Manager of Employee Relations and Equity Coordinator, 813-272-4227.

AcademyTeam Craig Naylor Lead Teacher Commercial Art Edward Bayonet Teacher Commercial Art

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