Birdville Career and Technology Education Successes
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Birdville Career and Technology Education Successes 2015-2016 Scholarship Recipients The Career and Technology Education Business Advisory Scholarship Committee awarded $16,000 in scholarships to deserving Career and Technology Education students. Students who received scholarships from Haltom High School: Lacey Powers and Teresa Vu; from Richland High School: Elexis Stanley and Khanh Tran; from The Birdville High School: Olivia Burkhart and Aleasha Jackson; from Shannon High School: Hailey Barron; and from Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning: Mackynzi An- drews (BHS), KyAnna Carrillo (RHS) and Kiernan Lubon (HHS). The recipients are pictured with Dr. Dar- rell Brown, Superintendent of Schools; Dr. Linda Anderson, Career and Technology Education Direc- tor; BHS Principal Jason Wells; RHS Assistant Principal Michael Gerard; HHS Principal David Hamilton; SHS Principal Greg Farr; BHS marketing teachers Andrea Anderson and Emily Shipman; SHS marketing teacher Tammy Wright; Manager of Public Affairs for Atmos Energy, Marilyn Ackmann; Vice President of Travel Educate, Vickie Edgar; Retired Birdville ISD Educator Judy Griggers; and Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning Administrative Assistant, Lisa Carnes. Career and Technology Special Awards Outstanding Business Partnership Tarrant County College Emergency Medical Services Dr. Linda Anderson, Director/Principal, BCTAL; Reyna Banfill, Instructor, TCC; James Gardner, Instructor, TCC; Dr. Allen Goben, President, TCC; and Dr. Darrell Brown, Superintendent, BISD 2015-2016 Matthew Pitner Teacher of Year 2015-2016 Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning Stephen George Mackynzi Andrews 2015-2016 2015-2016 BCTAL Outstanding Citizen BCTAL Outstanding Citizen Students are pictured with Marcus Canonico, CTE Coordinator and Dr. Linda Anderson, CTE Director. Haltom High School Future Business Leaders of America Regional Competition was held January 23, 2016, in Keller, Texas. Haltom High School winners were: Ariana Badillio, Entrepreneurship; Matthew Ash, En- trepreneurship and Sunny Hampal, Entrepreneurship and Business Calculations. State Competition was held March 2-5, 2016, in Houston, Texas. Haltom High School’s Future Business Leaders of America Advisor is Michelle Heckathorn. All Students Succeed in a future they create. DECA District Competition was held January 16, 2016, in Haltom City, Texas. Haltom High School winners were: Blake Brewer, Food Marketing Series; David Gamez, Accounting Applications; Arusha Herath, Accounting Applications; Brigido Hernandez, Business Services Marketing; Bradlee Michael, Accounting Applications; Mandy Nguyen, Accounting Applications and Maribel Velasquez, Accounting Applications. State Competition was held February 25-27, 2016, in San Antonio, Texas. Haltom High School’s DECA Advisor is Gary Lejarzar. Skills USA Regional Competition was held February 26-27, 2016, in Waco, Texas. The Haltom High School winners were: Alyssa Parks, Career Pathways and Madison Vaden, Career Pathways. State Competition was held March 25-28, 2016, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Haltom High School’s Skills USA Advisor is Chelly Sturgell. Haltom Robotics Haltom Robotics attended the Cowtown B.E.S.T Robotics Competition on October 22 2016 in Ft. Worth, Texas. Haltom Robotics won 5th place and received the best T-Shirt Design Award. Team members included: Maribel Velasquez, Sara Zatar, Angelica Carey, David Vo, Nischal Shrestha, Laksha Parajuil, Luis Rosales, Colton Lyons, Lance Merk- le, Matthew Ritchie, Brian Leblond-Normandin, Chris Merkle and Greg Lopez. Haltom Robotics attended the First Robotics Dallas Regional Competition in Irving, Texas on March 23-26, 2016. Haltom Robotics won 3rd place and received the creativity award. Team members included: Maribel Velasquez, David Vo, Nischal Shrestha, Laksha Parajuli, Luis Rosales, Colton Lyons, Lance Merkle, Matthew Ritchie and Brain Le- blond-Normandin Haltom Robotics attended the First Robotics Lone Start Regional Competition in Hou- ston, Texas on April 7-9, 2016. Haltom Robotics qualified as a Quarter Finalist and received the “Highest Rookie Seed Award” and “Rookie Inspiration Award”. Team members included: Maribel Velasquez, David Vo, Nischal Shrestha, Laksha Parajuli, Luis Rosales, Colton Lyons, Lance Merkle, Matthew Ritchie, Brain Leblond-Normandin and Alyssa Newman. Haltom Robotics Advisor is Chris Copeland. Yearbook & Journalism Haltom High School's yearbook and journalism team was very successful in 2015-2016. Students earned the following awards: The winners in Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society's Yearbook Excellence Contest were: Hayley Bridges, Sweepstakes Winner, Clubs or Organizations Spread; Kristal Saikho, Sweepstakes Winner, Academic Photo; Giovanna Villalpando, Sweepstakes Winner, Sports Action Photo National Winner, Dana McCurdy , Fea- ture Photo and Cemal Quershi, National Winner, Clubs or Organizations Spread and National Winner, Theme Development. Haltom High School’s year book staff won the Gold Medalist Critique from Columbia Scholastic Press Association Critique and All American Rating with four marks of distention from the National Scholastic Press Association Haltom Yearbook competed at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association (JEA/NSPA) Convection in Los Angles, California, April 14-17, 2016 winners were: Dana McCurdy, Student Life Photography Portfolio; Kristal Saikho, Clubs Copy/ Caption Writing; Ammysadday Hernandez, Academics Copy/Caption Writing and Lacey Powers, Cover/ End sheet design. Haltom Yearbook also won the Peacemaker Finalist Award. Haltom Yearbook competed at the Interscholastic League Press Conference State Convention (ILPC), April 16- 17 in Arlington, Texas. Haltom Yearbook received the following awards and recognitions for their 2015 year- book: Silver Star Award, Tops in Texas, Theme Copy, and Sports Action Photo by Giovanna Villalpando. Haltom Yearbook also received the following 6A-1 rankings: First Place, Theme Copy and Captions; Sec- ond Place, Caption Writing; Third Place, Headlines; Kristal Saikho, 1st place, Student Life Spread; Joshlianie Ruiz, 1st place, Class Spread; Giovanna Villalpando, 1st place, Student Life Feature Story and Sports Ac- tion Photo; D’Eric Kicniskian, 1st place, Student Life Feature Story; Alesha Mrema, 1st place, Student Life Fea- ture Story; Cemal Quershi, 1st Place Spread; Danielle Robinson, 2nd Place, Clubs Spread; Ammysadday Her- nandez, 2nd Place, Clubs Spread; Marissa Valdez, 2nd Place, Clubs Feature Story Personality Profile; Cindara Souvanna, 2nd Place, Personality Profile; Hayley Bridges, 3rd Place, Clubs Photo; Dana McCurdy, 3rd place, Photo Portfolio and Alesha Mrema, Honorable Mention, Academic Spread. Haltom Yearbook received the following for their 2016 yearbook: Samantha Ledesma, 1st place, Multi-Topic Spread; Kayla Starnes, 2nd Place, Feature Spread; Laryssa Hernandez, 3rd place Clubs Spread, Academic Spread; Kristal Saiko, 3rd place Clubs Spread, Academic Spread and Danielle Robinson, Honorable Mention, Sports Spread. The Yearbook and Journalism Advisor at Haltom High School is Emily Arnold. Richland High School Future Business Leaders of America Regional Competition was held January 23, 2016, in Keller, Texas. Richland High School winners were: Ruth Kingsbury, Emerging Business Issues Team; Nayzak Najm, Emerging Business Issues Team; Shaikh Sakib, Future Business Leader; Jessica Ebong, Health Care Administration; Adriana Gonzalez, Graphic Design Team; Victoria Gonzalez, Graphic Design Team; Melissa Gonzales, Graphic Design Team; Lelia Stracener, Publication Design Team; Wendy Delgado Coronado, Publication Design Team, Hina Hussain, Business Calculations; Katherine Durham, Public Service Announcement Team, Phobe Voss, Public Service Announcement Team and Khuyen Tran, Client Service. State Competition was held March 2-5, 2016, in Houston, Texas. Richland High School winners were: Ruth Kingsbury, Emerging Busi- ness Issues Team; Nayzak Najm, Emerging Business Issues Team; Shaikh Sakib, Future Business Leader; Jessica Ebong, Health Care Administration; Adriana Gonzalez, Graphic Design Team; Victoria Gonzalez, Graphic Design Team and Melissa Gonzales, Graphic Design Team. Richland High School’s Business Professionals of America Advisors are Amy Strickland, Iracy Pereira and Tracie Hagar. Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America Regional Competition was held February 4-5, 2016, in Waco, Texas. Richland High School’s winners were: Jack- lyn Prewitt, Environmental Ambassador; Kyanna Car- rillo, Teach and Train; Taylor King, Teach and Train, Elexis Stanley, Teach and Train; Daniel Fussel, Serving Up Success and Jenna Fleischer, Fashion Construction. State Competition was held April 7-9, 2016, in Houston, Texas. Richland High School FCCLA won the treasurer award and the most committed chapter award. Richland High School’s Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America Advisors are Elizabeth Lundy and Tana Taylor. Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Divisional Competition was held February 6, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. The Richland High School winners were: Siva Sarah, High School Algebra I; Tin Ha, High School Algebra II; Grace DiSilva, High School Geometry; Arianne Alvarez, High School Pre-Calculus; Alexander Ban, High School Calculus; David Serrato, High School Chemistry; Shaikh Sahib, Comprehensive Science and Jose Garcia, Team Engineering Design. State Competition was held April 30, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas. The Richland High