Coshocton County Career Center Cosmetology seniors Anisha Seitz and Paige Hamilton teamed up to create the winning spa pedicure display basket for a recently held merchandising contest in their program. 

Several juniors and seniors in the Cosmetology program at the Coshocton County Career Center recently took part in an optional challenge to show-off their product merchandising skills.  Teams of two and three put together a spa pedicure display basket designed to entice salon visitors to book a spa pedicure and purchase related products.  Continue reading →

Career Center students [L-R] Skyler Luke, Logan Strain, Aaron King and Zach Lewinski pass a loaded food box down the assembly line set-up in the basement of the Coshocton Salvation Army.  In all, Career Center students, along with others from Coshocton, Ridgewood and River View high schools, sorted and packed 550 holiday food boxes for distribution to residents in need.

Juniors and seniors in Culinary Arts, Criminal Justice and Cosmetology spent this morning sorting donated food and filling holiday food boxes for community residents.  The effort was part of an annual community service project organized by the Coshocton Salvation Army.  In addition to students from the Career Center, other high schoolers, representing specific clubs from Coshocton, Ridgewood and River View high schools also took part.  In all, well-over one hundred students participated. Continue reading →

Coshocton County JVS School Board President Tad Johnson presents Coshocton Tribune staff writer Leonard Hayhurst with a board resolution recognizing him as a 2011 OSBA Media Honor Roll member.   Hayhurst was nominated for his fair and balanced coverage of career-technical secondary education in Coshocton County.

On behalf of his work in promoting the Coshocton County Career Center, the Ohio School Boards Association has named local Coshocton Tribune staff writer Leonard Hayhurst to their 2011 Media Honor Roll.  The distinction is reserved for members of the media who have covered school district news in a fair and balanced manner. Continue reading →

Ridgewood Middle School Counselor Leslie Dulgar [Foreground] and Career Center Student Ambassador Rachel Burkey [Background, in blue shirt] work with sixth grade students, helping them research specific jobs in the career clusters which map to the students current interests and experiences.  This two-day activity, which took place Dec. 12 and 13, is part of a career readiness initiative at the middle school.

In a continuation of their career development work within the Ridgewood Local School District, representatives from the Coshocton County Career Center took the district’s sixth grade students through a two-day career discovery activity on Monday, December 12^th and Tuesday, December 13^th.  The activity allowed the eleven and twelve year olds the chance to learn about four career-tech programs at the Career Center, as well as the opportunity to discover how their own personal interests and experiences might map to potential careers of interest. Continue reading →

Coshocton County Career Center Culinary Arts I junior, Kelsey Carnes, from River View throws a plastic washer, trying to land it in a high-score ring. Students from her program, cheer her on, while English instructor Pat Talbot [with clipboard] keeps the team’s score of accumulated points. Though it had to be postponed twice due to rain, the Coshocton County Career Center students and staff enjoyed themselves on a warm and sunny Friday, Oct. 7th at the school’s annual fall mixer event. As it is each year, the mixer is sponsored by the Career Center Student Council organization, for the purpose of giving students and staff an opportunity to get to know one another better in a fun, but competitive environment.

Each program competed in many games, which included a football toss, Frisbee bowling, softball, lawn golf, a basketball shoot-off, and a tug-of-war competition, among others. The mixer promotes cooperation and camaraderie among programs and a little friendly competition between them, as students work together by program to accumulate points, while having fun socializing. Continue reading →

2011 Coshocton County Career Center Metal Fabrication program completer Andrew Freetage is one of SanCasT’s newest employees. Freetage is one of eight 2011 grads who have all been positively—placed due to their hard work and earning their AWS certifications over the summer.

This summer, Nick Baughman, Metal Fabrication instructor at the Coshocton County Career Center, was happy to discover that all eight of his 2011 program completers who had attempted American Welding Society certifications had earned them. He was thrilled then and is even happier now. Four are currently or are about to be gainfully employed and performing the work in which they were trained and the other four are currently enrolled to receive higher education from college and trade schools. Continue reading →