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Volume 35

Number 1

Spring 2004

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	It’s Not a Job. It’s My Career! The National Career Development Association sponsors a poster and poetry contest for National Career Development Month in November. The 2003 theme was “It’s Not Just My Job. It’s My Career!” This issue highlights poetry.		Student Leadership Day at the Capitol Legislators became educators as they met with CareerTech student leaders from their legislative districts at the State Capitol at the Second Annual CareerTech Student Leadership Day at the Capitol.
	Oklahoma Women’s Summit 2004 "Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility" On April 23, summit sponsor expectations for the number of participants more than doubled with 400 women from across the state converging at the State Capitol Building for the Oklahoma Women’s Summit “Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility.”		CareerTech is Good for Oklahoma . . . and Oklahomans Oklahomans who have CareerTech success stories to tell are everywhere. They are in junior and senior high school, young and not-so-young adults, business owners, industries deciding where to locate and the incarcerated, soon-to-be-released into local communitites.
	New CIMC Product: " Defying the Odds" The Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center (CIMC) has recently published a crash course in entrepreneurship called "Defying the Odds." It consists of a workbook and six VHS tapes or DVDs. A Website of supplemental resources also is provided.		OAMCTE Leadership Conference The Oklahoma Association of Minorities in Career and Technology Education (OAMCTE) Leadership Conference was held April 23 in Oklahoma City.
	CareerTech Student Organization Conferences Ring in the Spring April showers and a very busy month were in the forecast for nearly 76,000 members of the Oklahoma CareerTech student organizations (CTSOs). Five of the seven CTSOs, sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, had spring leadership conferences scheduled throughout April. Two conferences were held in March.		*Gov. Brad Henry receives recognition as CareerTech Champion* Gov. Brad Henry, a former agricultural education student and member of the FFA, received recognition as an Oklahoma CareerTech Champion April 27 at the State Capitol, just as the 78th State FFA Convention was kicking off at the Cox Convention Center.

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