Crawford County K12 Career Education Alliance

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Crawford County K-12 Career Education Alliance

• Meadville Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation

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Who We ARe

• A partnership of business, industry, government
  agencies, community organizations, post-secondary
  institutions and K-12 school administrators
  working together to provide all students with
  opportunities to explore their career options and
  make the connection between what they are
  learning in school and how it will be used in the
  real world.

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What we are doing

• Summer Camps
• Career Day activities
• Career News page content in the Monday edition of
  the Meadville Tribune Sept. through May
• Mock Interviews
• The Great Hospital Adventure Program
• Student Job Shadow Program
• Educator In-Service activities
• Educator-in-the-Workplace Act 48 Program
• Just to name a few!

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K-12 School Partners

• Conneaut School District
• Crawford Central School District
• PENNCREST School District
• and
• the Crawford County Career and Technical School

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Career Education activities

• 21st Century Girls Camp
• Made possible through a Regional Career Education
  Partnership Grant from the Regional Center for
  Workforce Excellence
• Funding directed towards exposing girls and other
  underrepresented groups to careers in the
  S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and
  Math) occupations.
• Camp held on June 17 18, 2009 for 7th and 8th
  grade girls

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21st Century girls camp
Camp participants at Clarion University Venango
Campus, get a campus tour from Bill Hallock,
learn about metal fabrication at Specialty
Fabrication and Powder Coating in Franklin and
visit the Lumber Inspector Program held by the
National Hardwood Lumber Association at the
Venango Technical Center.
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21st Century girls camp
Building Bridges Activity at Penn State
University, the Behrend College Participants
learned about how careers in engineering impact
our every day lives.
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21st Century Girls Camp
Also while at Penn State, the Behrend College,
participants dissected sheep brains and eyeballs
to learn about their parts and various
occupations available in the sciences.
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Summer Camp

• Replacing the Career Camp in 2009 and 2010 is the
  summer camps. Due to the renovations at the
  Crawford County Career and Technical Center, the
  traditional Career Camp could not be held.
  Instead three camps were offered.
• Electrical Wiring
• Lego Robotics
• Tool Die
• The regular Career Camp will return in 2011.

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Electrical Wiring
Camp participants get a tour of the Crawford
County CTC electrical renovations by the
Contractors Project Manager.
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Electrical Wiring
Camp instructor, Rod Frazier works with a student
on the camp project.
Camp participant works on wiring project which
consisted of 3 and 4 way switches. Participants
enjoy the hands-on projects.
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Lego Robotics

• New offering that was made possible through a
  partnership with Crawford Central School
  District.
• Participants received Lego Mind Storm t-shirts
  donated by Lego Education.
• The Lego Robotics Camp will be available in 2010
  and will be offered as a camp option in the
  regular Career Camp in 2011.

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Lego Robotics
Instructor Jeff Bossard helps a student with the
computer program used to download instructions to
the robot (pictured left). The program uses math
calculations to instruct the robots movements.
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Lego Robotics
It works!
Intense concentration.
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Lego Robotics
Dont be fooled because it is made by Lego.
Building the robot out of Lego's is the easy
part. Programming the robot is a whole other
challenge. Once programming is mastered, the
robot is capable of picking up balls and using
sensors to recognize sounds or solid objects in
its way. However there is no voice recognition
programming at this level yet.
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Tool Die at PMI

• Each year Precision Manufacturing Institute
  partners with the Crawford County K-12 Career
  Education Alliance to offer the Tool Die Camp.
• This year students learned about CNC machines.
• This camp takes place at PMI so that students can
  see first hand the various machines that are used
  in the Tool Die Industry and the various
  post-secondary opportunities that are offered by
  PMI.

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Tool DIe
The instructor shows students how to program the
CNC Mill to perform the necessary cuts for their
project. On this particular day they were making
personalized metal picture frames.
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Tool Die
The instruction is up close and personal.
Students get to see how these machines work and
to think about safety measures at all times.
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Tool Die
Students take the raw materials and learn about
what it takes to make a finished product.
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Tool Die
While the CNC machines are cool, students also
learn about the computer programs that help
engineers design products.
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2011 Career Camp

• When the Career Camp returns in 2011, students
  will have the opportunity to participate in these
  other camp areas
• Auto Body
• Culinary Arts
• Health Occupations
• Cosmetology
• Building Construction
• Law Enforcement
• And much more!

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Educator in the workplace

• All Crawford County K-12 teachers are eligible to
  participate
• Teachers are required to spend 40 hours
  shadowing a local business or organization to
  learn more about the business and the products or
  services they provide.
• Teachers are required to produce a lesson plan
  that they can implement in their classroom that
  will demonstrate how what they are teaching to
  students is used in the workplace.

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Educator in the Workplace

• Once teachers have successfully completed their
  40 hours and produced a lesson plan they are
  awarded 45 Act 48 credit hours to maintain their
  teaching credentialing in PA.
• Teachers of all subject areas can participate in
  this program science, math, history, English,
  family consumer sciences, art, music, etc.
• The Crawford County CTC instructors are also
  eligible to participate in this program.

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Educator in the workplace
Rebekah Rosenberger (left), elementary teacher
from Crawford Central School Districts Second
District school, spent her 40 hours at
Channellock, Inc. Michele King (right) served as
the contact for Rebekahs visit to Channellock
and helped to provide her with a well-rounded
experience of their manufacturing and business
processes.
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Educator in the workplace

• Since starting the Educator in the Workplace Act
  48 Program and Educator in the Workplace Graduate
  Course, over 300 educators have participated in
  visiting local businesses and organizations.
• Besides local manufacturers like Channellock,
  Inc., teachers have visited local libraries,
  dental offices, tool die shops, the Department
  of Environmental Protection, local artists,
  Crawford County Historical Society, accounting
  firms, etc.

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Other Stuff
Tami Farrell of Meadville Medical Center (left),
State Representative Brad Roae (center), and Jay
Verno of Hagan Business Machines (right)
participate in a mock interview activity at
Saegertown High School.
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The Great Hospital Adventure
The Great Hospital Adventure is an 1st or 2nd
grade program that is made possible through a
partnership between the Meadville Medical Center
Foundation, the Crawford County Career and
Technical Centers Health Occupations program and
the Crawford County K-12 Career Education
Alliance. The program uses 8 puppets to tell a
story about a boy name Josh, who falls out of a
tree and breaks his leg and the health
professionals he meets during his adventure. CTC
Health Occupation students present the program to
the students. The program includes a 20 minute
video and then 10 minute discussion about the
story. Each student in the class receives a Great
Hospital Adventure coloring book so they can
share the story with their parents. All 8 puppets
are based on real people working at the Millcreek
Community Hospital. Even Josh and his sister are
real people in the Erie Community.
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Career day activity
7th and 8th grade career day activities include
speakers from various occupations. The picture to
the right shows a message therapist from
Meadville Medical Center conducting a
demonstration of techniques on a student
volunteer. Local businesses and organizations
enjoy the chance to participate in Career Day
activities so that they can inform students about
career opportunities right here in Crawford
County. Most speakers bring in visual aides or
have the students conduct an activity that
demonstrates the skills needed to work in that
field.
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Field Trips

• The Crawford County K-12 Career Education
  Alliance searches for grant opportunities to
  support K-12 career education activities. Grant
  funds are sought each year to support field trips
  to local business and industry. Field trips
  provide students with the opportunity to
  experience the technology being used, hear about
  what products are being made and see what working
  conditions are like in various work settings.

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Field Trips
Field trips take students to places like C J
Industries, The Meadville Tribune, Meadville
Medical Center, Dads Pet Care, ChipBLASTER,
Nutec, Channellock, Acutec Precision Machining,
Rolling Fields, Lord Corporation, Tech Tool and
Mold, Bucks Fabricating (Mercer County), Erie
Insurance (Erie County), Hamot (Erie County),
Carnegie Science Center (Pittsburgh), WJET-TV 24
(Erie County), etc.
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So much more

• The Crawford County K-12 Career Education
  Alliance is involved in many activities within
  the public school districts. Such as Business
  Week, Industry Clubs at Meadville Middle School
  and Cambridge Springs High School, operation of
  the Job Shadowing Program, and providing a
  variety of career education presentations to
  students and teachers.

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Additional Information

• To learn more about the Crawford County K-12
  Career Education Alliance visit us on the web at
  www.ccvts.org/s_t_w or contact the Program
  Coordinator at 814-337-8202 or email
  tlarson_at_ccvts.org.

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Crawford County K-12 Career Education Alliance

• Meadville Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation