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Volume 36

Number 2

Winter 2005

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	Miss Oklahoma CareerTech Champion Elizabeth Kinney credits her current title as Miss Oklahoma, in large part, to skills learned through active participation in CareerTech student organizations. That credit, in turn, earns her recognition as an Oklahoma CareerTech Champion.		Cooperatives Alliances’ Project OK’d A pilot project approved by state regents aims to increase the number of high school students attending college and increase the number of people using federal, state and local resources.
	FFA Food Drive A record-breaking 41,275 pounds of food, collected by the 356 FFA chapters across Oklahoma, was donated to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.		Spring: CareerTech Student Leadership Conference Season Spring was very busy season for more than 27,000 attendees of the Oklahoma CareerTech student organizations (CTSOs).
	CareerTech Sponsors High School Pre-Engineering Engineers: Think globally. Serve the poor. Enable trade. Engineer a new vehicle. Improve living standards. Design toys or Basic Utility Vehicles (BUV). Projects associated to these areas could present the greatest challenge (and fun) ever had in school!		CareerTech Student Leaders Learn at the Capitol Students involved in leadership training programs at 13 of Oklahoma's 29 Technology Centers converged upon the State Capitol on March 30, participating in the third annual CareerTech Student Leadership Day at the Capitol.
	OSU-Okmulgee’s Cyber Security Competition Tests CareerTech Students’ Ability to Protect Home and Work Top IT students from CareerTech campuses across the state competed in a cyber security contest at OSU-Okmulgee recently.		CareerTech Organization Embraces Diversity Due to minority population growth indicators, the Census Bureau projects that by 2016 Oklahoma will be considered a minority state.
	Oklahoma Horizon Moving, Evolving Beginning June 5, Oklahoma Horizon, a weekly television show produced by the State Department of Career and Technology Education, will add a new time slot to its lineup, and two new segments to the show. The first weekly airing of the show will move from 7 a.m. Saturday to 3 p.m. Sunday on OETA.		Tech-Now, CareerTech Connect If not for Tech-Now, Nathan Menifee, a senior at Yukon High School, admits he probably would not have stepped into the advertising arena as a career choice. Tech-Now, helped him pursue a career as a graphic artist.
	CareerTech Program Training Female Inmates in Skilled Trades The Oklahoma Department of Corrections and CareerTech have teamed up for a licensed trades program at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Facility in McCloud		.