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14211 SE Johnson Rd.
Milwaukie, OR 97267
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Spring 2016 Issue
AGRICULTURE
Comps, babes, and plants keep ‘em busy
“Photo op” for Agriculture Competitors at FFA State Convention
EARLY LEARNING
“SPACE” Explorers
High school students took over the curriculum at the Early Learning Center preschool during the months of February and March. The
theme was SPACE. Each student planned and taught an activity based
on objectives for development and learning. The learning culminated
in a field trip to OMSI to visit the planetarium and practice guidance
skills in a public setting. The learning unit was a great success.
In addition, students participated in a community service project
by preparing activities to be used for Kindergarten Connections Day
on March 10. Bags with age appropriate activities were delivered to
Linwood, Oak Grove, Bilquist and Oregon Trail. Advanced Early
Learning students Mary Ramsthel, Elysia Webb, Liliya Voznyuk, and
Haley Fogarty facilitated the learning activities with preschoolers
headed to kindergarten at each elementary school.
Preschool student enjoys space
South Campus
14450 SE Johnson Rd.
Milwaukie, OR 97267
503-353-5903
Quarterly News
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Students assemble learning activty packets
Fourteen Ag students recently
traveled to the FFA State convention held at Oregon State
University over spring break.
Five students competed and
some obtained their State Degree. Mackenzie Wille, Katelyn
Wetzler, and Sarah Markham
competed in the Marketing plan
competition earning 4th place.
Mackenzie and Sarah earned
first place for their agriscience
project. Sarah, Grace Garrett
and Mary Mitchelldyer earned
their State Degree, the highest
degree that Oregon FFA gives.
Mackenzie also won the Diversified Livestock Proficiency
award. Katelyn won the Diversified Ag Production Proficiency award, and Mary won the
Poultry Production Proficiency
award. Mackenzie and Grace
competed in the Co-op Quiz as
well. All in all it was a very successful year at State!
Of course spring is always a
really hectic time at the land
lab...And this year it’s been an
especially busy birthing season
on the farm. Thirty two new
lambs joined the herd in January and February, four new piglets are in the farrow and March
welcomed a new calf! Born to
Katelyn Wetzler’s Charolais mix
cow “Darla”, the bull calf called
“Spud” can be seen in the front
field with his mom. Come May,
new chicks will increase the
poultry flock, and we even expect some new kids to join the
tribe!
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INSIDE:
Health Services pg 2
Automotive Service pg 2
CAD NAWIC winners! pg 3
Fire Science pg 3
Agriculture pg 4
Electronics pg 4
HEALTH SERVICES
Three
Health
Services students
recently
were
awarded coveted
scholarships from
Linfield College.
Every year Linfield
College sponsors a
Madison Russell
competitive scholarship day for senior high school
students. Participation in Linfield’s
scholarship day is
by invitation only
and students must
apply to qualify for
Makenna Vickroy
consideration. Students must rank 3
exam choices in the
hope that they will
be selected for one.
This year three SSC
Health
Services
students competed
in the nursing exSami Noble
amination and all
three were awarded Nursing Department
academic scholarships.
Sami Noble (CHS) received 1st place
with a reward of $20,000, Madison Russell
(CHS) placed 2nd with a $16,000 award and
Makenna Vickroy (PHS) placed 3rd with a
$12,000 award. All three students have been
accepted to Linfield College and all of them
plan to attend the nursing program.
To qualify for the scholarship the students had to complete an exam within two
hours. Their experiences in SSC Health
Services enabled them to explain the characteristics of an effective interprofessional
healthcare team and discuss an example
in-depth illustrating why it is important for
nurses to function within the framework of
the team. Drawing on their personal experiences during their program internships
at Providence Milwaukie Medical Surgical
floor or Radiology Department; Providence
Willamette Falls Birthplace, IV Therapy or
Radiology Department; Kaiser Emergency,
2S or 3S, Radiology or Day Surgery Department; allowed each student to bring a unique
perspective when answering the competitive questions. What they learned in these
medical internships enabled them to clearly
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Internship Experiences pay off!
define how nurses provide patient care in
collaboration with professionals from other
disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, social work and physical therapy.
All three girls have been in the Health
Services program since they were freshmen
and they are all the type of student that makes
the Health Services program so successful.
Congratulations girls!
AUTOMOTIVE
Rods & Rides at PRS
spent over 60 hours customizing the pedal car
to meet their design specifications. This year’s
design required special finish techniques to
age the car’s appearance and give it the look
of a vintage pedal car. This required research
and an understanding of the science behind
rust and aging metal. After assembly, students
spent time stripping paint, rubbing, buffing
and sanding before antiquing the metal , then
treating it with a vinegar and salt solution to
neutralize the rust, because (of course) rust
runs!
Student Amanda (Mandie) Brown entered
her cherry red 1967 Ford F-100 Pickup truck
into the High School Challenge where the
best rides from area High Schools are displayed. After logging countless hours working on her truck Mandie’s payoff was walking
away with the Carolina Kustom Award recognition. Four years in the Automotive program at SSC have prepared Mandie to attend
UTI for Nascar Technical Training in North
Carolina next fall.
Thanks to the Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant from the ODE, automotive students have enjoyed working with
new tool boxes and hand tools, and some new
specialty automotive equipment. Having access to this badly needed upgraded equipment
provides real-job experience for students
working with automotive technologies.
Students in the Automotive Program at
SSC have been busy this year. Between learning proper tool use and maintenance, testing,
vehicle work in the auto shop, and designing
and building a pedal car for auction, the year
is speeding by.
Recently 30 AST students volunteered to
set up the Portland Roadster Show. SSC students have been helping to set up the show for
a few years now, and have done such a great
job that this year they were entrusted to run
the setup using their best judgment. “It’s a
great opportunity for our kids to earn some
community service hours and problem solve”
said Robert Christner, AST
instructor. Students spent
six hours working behind
the scenes to set up, secure
stands and rope off over 400
auto display areas. It’s a time
consuming job, but our students more than rose to the
occasion, finishing the job in
half the time spent last year.
For perks, the student workers enjoyed a pizza dinner
courtesy of the show’s direcAutomotive Services Student-Built “Vintage” Pedal Car
tor, Dwayne Cassidy, and free
tickets to the weekend show.
Since “car guys” love “auto
speak”, meeting vehicle owners, swapping shop talk and
getting first hand answers to
questions prior to the hustle
and bustle of the show was
a benefit students really enjoyed.
A student-built pedal car
was auctioned off at the show
(Thanks to the Multnomah
Hot Rod Association, who
Mandi Brown’s 1967 Ford F‐100 - Carolina Kustom Award Winner
donate the kit.) Students
FIRE SCIENCE
A Full Ride for 3 Career Firefighters
Jordan Johnson, Hayden Desmet and Sam Wright, COCC scholarship winners in Full gear
The SSC Fire Science program is happy to
congratulate Hayden Desmet, Jordan Johnson, and Sam Wright, who were recently
awarded full-ride scholarships to Central
Oregon Community College’s Fire Science
program as part of the Central Oregon Fire
Agencies Joint Recruitment process! The
program allows all three students to live at
a Crook County fire station as they attend
school and work as resident-volunteer firefighters. The 3 will gain invaluable experience that will certainly help them attain
CAD 2 WINNERS!
For the 20th year, professionals from the
ACE (Architecture, Construction and Engineering) fields visited the CAD classroom on
March 10 to judge CAD2 student entries in
the NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction) National CAD competition. All CAD2 students worked for months
designing a flagship convenience store that
met the client’s requirements and was fully ADA-accessible. They were required to
produce a set of working drawings of their
design, including a site plan, floor plan, elevations, electrical plan, building and wall
sections. In addition, our students always
create a 3D model of their building, using
either SketchUp or Revit CAD programs.
The winners this year were: Jamie Corral
(1st place), Jillian Pihulak (2nd place) and
Alisha Lewis (3rd place). Jamie’s work will be
submitted in the NW Regional competition,
which now incorporates Northern California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
their goal of becoming career firefighters. In
addition to having their school paid for, the
students will also receive a monthly stipend
for their work at the fire station!
The application process was nearly identical to the process of applying to become
a career firefighter and included a lengthy
application, written test, practical handson test, and an interview. These SSC students filled three of the four open positions.
According to Neal Dietz, SSC Fire Science
teacher, “this is the best type of program
Doors open for NAWIC Winners
Montana and Alaska. Because of this regional expansion, students had 3 weeks less time
to complete their work than usual, but rose
to the challenge. The competition, although
sponsored by the National Association of
Women in Construction, is open to all students, male and female. Congratulations!
available for young men and women who
truly wish to become career firefighters, and
I’m proud of these young men for their foresight and initiative in applying for these positions. When you add in the fact that their
college courses will be paid for, it’s a huge
opportunity for them.”
As long as Hayden, Jordan, and Sam continue to attend COCC’s fire science and/or
paramedic program, they can stay in the
program for three years. As can be expected, all three are very excited about this next
step in their education and they’re happy to
be doing it with fellow SSC students. “The
fire science class at Sabin helped me get this
scholarship by preparing me with knowledge of what the job is really like. It also gave
me an edge on my competition by giving me
things to talk about during the interview
portion of the testing” said Jordan. Hayden
added “The Sabin class will give me a leg up
in school and at the fire station. Just having
general knowledge and familiarity with the
equipment helped a lot in the testing process. I’m really excited about this opportunity. The program will give me three years
of hands-on work experience in the station
while I go to school. This should help a lot
both at school and with getting a job after I
graduate. It will be great to get such an early
start to a career I’m super excited about.”
It should also be noted that another current SSC Fire Science student, Griffin Allen
(pictured on cover), has applied for the same
scholarship program at COCC with another
fire department, but they are not through
with their recruitment and testing process
as of this writing. Our fingers are crossed for
Griffin!
2015 SSC fire science alumni Conner
Bowman was awarded the same scholarship
last year and is currently working as a resident-volunteer at Jefferson County Fire District while attending COCC to earn his Fire
Science degree. We wish all of these young
men the very best in their future!
Alisha Lewis, Jamie Corral and Jillian Pihulak display their winning NAWIC entries
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ELECTRONICS
Intro to Electronics students are learning
components and how to solder, while the
Exploring Electronics students have been
busy working on their 5th project, the variable power supply.
Thanks to CTE Career Pathway Funds we
now have a new Video Inspection Station
(microscope) available at the front table of
the class room so students and the teacher
can inspect solder connections. Individual,
Processors, Programs & Bots
C-TEC grant,
the team was
able to build
2 robots this
season and
with 4 mentors and 30
students, the
manufacturing area has
been buzzing
Sabin Sharks competition robot
with activity.
The student
built robot competed at Wilsonville first,
and then went on to compete in Oregon
City on April 1st & 2nd.
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New Video Inspection Station
lighted, magnification soldering stations
will soon be at each student soldering station as well. These new tools should help
students inspect their solder connections to
identify those that are poor or defective.
In the Robot World, level 3 Robotics
Electronics students are learning the PIC
processor programming as they prepare
to program their autonomous robot car or
truck. These students have designed and
built a sound sensor board, a speed controller board and an IR detection board that will
all be incorporated into the robots.
Since January, the FIRST robotics club,
The Sabin Sharks, have been meeting Tuesday & Thursday afternoons and all day Saturday working on the practice robot and the
competition robot for this year’s “StrongHold” FRC competition. With funds from a
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Welcome Spud!
Between practicing for state competitions, welcoming new babies, running the
farm, and manning the greenhouses in
preparation for the upcoming Spring Plant
Sale, Ag students and staff do keep busy.
Greenhouses are bursting at the seams with
a terrific variety of edibles and ornamentals
for the annual Ag plant
sale.
The sale starts May
1st and will continue
throughout the month.
Weekdays you can
buy plants at the land
lab between 3-5pm.
Or, you can join us
on weekends at the
Sabin-Schellenberg
North campus greenhouse, from 9am-2pm .
Sabin Sharks FIRST Robotics club members at “Stronghold”
Culinary Alumni credits SSC
for College Success
2009 graduate and Culinary Arts
Alumni Anthony Dulaney was glad
to spend time here at SSC while
in high school. Anthony graduated
from OSU in spring of 2014 with
an undergraduate degree in Food
Science and Technology and
Innovation Management. Currently
Anthony is interning at Leprino
Foods in California as he pursues
his graduate degree in Dairy
Products Technology at Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo.
Anthony contacted Chef Jason
McCammon recently to thank him
for his time and encouragement
while Anthony took culinary classes
here at SSC. “I am not sure if you
remember me but I was in your
Introduction to Culinary Arts class
in 2006 and again in 2008-2009 as
a Culinary 1 student. I am writing to
Thank you for inspiring my interest
in food. I cannot tell you how much
finding this passion has helped me
in the subsequent years.”
Anthony attributes his current
success to his experience in the
Culinary Arts Program which
prepared him for further education
in his career of choice. “I cannot
stress to you how important you
have been in shaping my future
and education. I really appreciated
the time you took to get to know
me and understanding what I
really wanted to know. I, honestly,
took culinary as a blow-off class
in high school but it turned out to
be the most informative, growthbased and valuable class I took
throughout high school.”
SSC Culinary Arts classes gave
Anthony an edge, helped prepare
him for his current intern position
at Leprino Foods and his success
getting this degree. “Without
the goal of understanding food
chemistry and what goes on in
simple processing steps, I am sure
I wouldn’t have been as successful
in my undergraduate degree.”