Volume 38
Number 2
Spring 2007 
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Metro Tech Tops in National Poster/Poetry Contest

By Ann Houston
Oklahoma Department of CareerTech

Five of the 13 national winners from the recent 41st National Career Poster/Poetry contest were from Oklahoma's Metro Technology Centers.

The Poetry contest winners are adult students Kenneth Freeman, who placed first in the nation and David Templeton, who placed second.

Placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Poster /Mixed Media category are adult students Tim Church, Jerome Johnson and Dante Anderson.

Every student from kindergarten through adult who are enrolled in public, private and parochial schools in states with participating National Career Development Month are qualified to enter the competition.

According to Oklahoma's contest coordinator, Career Information Specialist Janet Hawkins at the Oklahoma Department of CareerTech, this year's theme was "One World, Many Cultures, Many Careers."

To read all of the winning poems online, go to http://www.ncda.org. In the search box type "Contest." Select the "Complete Story" for Poetry and then select the winner's name.

The winning entries will be displayed at the Global Conference in Seattle, WA on July 6-8.

Contest winners, standing L to r, David Templeton, Tim Church, and Jerome Johnson.

Contest winners, standing L to r, David Templeton, Tim Church, and Jerome Johnson.

Next year's contest theme is "Find Your Voice, Change Your World." All entries will need to be at the ODCTE, Guidance Division office on December 3, 2007.

Metro Tech's Top Two Poems in the Nation

1st Place

Hands

by Kenneth Freeman

Hands at work in all colors
Hands at work in all trades
Hands at work for tomorrow
Mankind's hope in array
Hands stretched forth for the glory
Hands stretched forth for the flame
Hands stretched forth in the story
The torch of Mankind's acclaim
Hands at rest in the future
Hands at rest in world peace
Hands at rest in achievement
The wonder of man is increase

2nd Place

One World-Many Cultures-Many Careers
by David Templeton

As we travel on this journey
'Cross the seas and the lands
We see the whole planet
Working with their hands.
Some people hold tools
While others, they have none
Yet they all accomplish
Their work beneath the sun.
Some do manual labor
And some will use their mind
But they all have their goals
And reach them all in kind.
No matter where we travel
As long as we're on Earth
We all have the drive
For all time after Birth
The one thing we've in common
No matter where you are
Is wanting to be better
And wanting to go far.

 

 

 

 

 

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