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North Clackamas School District #12
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Summer 2015 Issue
Celebration of Success Where SSC students Shine!
SSC 2015 Scholarship Winners at Celebration of Success
Sabin-Schellenberg Professional Technical Center ended
a year of outstanding student
accomplishment which culminated in the annual Celebration of Success Ceremony May
18. Previous SSC grads entertained a full house with uplifting success anecdotes. Eric
Bailey returned to give an eye
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Athena Harvey and Riley Sebers served as Masters of Ceremony and Rex Putnam’s High
School Band performed during
the dessert.
In addition to recognizing
outstanding excellence, 26
students were awarded scholarships at the event. All told,
SSC students received over
$48,000 in scholarships!
From the staff of SSC -- we
are proud of you all and wish
you resounding success in your
future endeavors. Congratulations!
On Grades from Grad...An alumni perspective
North Campus
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Milwaukie, OR 97267
503-353-5940
SSC Outstanding Students
Ag Science
Monica Debord
Automotive
Nathan Silverstein
Broadcasting
Hope Alexander
BAM
Landon Rufener
Cosmetology
Nely Aid Calvillo-Huerta,
Nichole Gonzalez
Culinary Arts
Erica Pincock
Digital Design
Lillian Odegaard,
Nicholas Urben
Early Learning Center
Amber Casey
Electronics Technology
Philip Fritz
Fire Science
Matthew Williamson
Forestry
Dominic Vezzani
Health Services
Emily Custer, Natalia Garzon,
Tulsi Patel
Law Enforcement
Mike Boyes
Manufacturing
Calin Himm, Kegan Makinster
PACE
Kali Lyons, Liliana Avalos
Michelle Dieringer, 2007 SSC Health Services alumni completed her Physical Therapy Program at Boston’s Simmons
College in August of 2015. What follows are a few of her thoughts on the Sabin-Schellenberg Professional Technical Center’s
Health Services Program and how her experience here impacted her career choices.
Michelle graduated from her Physical Therapy Program in August of 2015 and began working in September. She currently works at a post acute care clinic as
one of the primary physical therapists on site.”Some day I hope to become a supervisor, helping lead a great team to assist patients to live fulfilling and mobile
lifestyles. SSC Health Services program HUGELY impacted my career choice! My friend Katarina introduced me into the level one class and together we knew we
wanted to be in the health care field. Some of my favorite and most distinct memories are from the level 2 class when we were able to go on two week rotations to
observe surgery, assist nurses, and participate many different health care duties. I wasn’t interested in physical therapy in high school, but I finally decided it was
the right choice for me in college. The program helped me realize that I LOVE health care and it also showed me the careers
that were not for me. I was so happy to experience all the different rotations and learn so early on what the options were.”
Michelle’s experience in Health Services allowed her to focus on science classes which are required for all health care
professions. She learned professionalism at an early age, an important skill when working with other health care professionals,
patients and their families. Her advice for SSC health services students? “Enjoy yourself and the different rotations you will
experience. Even if you don’t feel like each rotation/learning experience is the right one for you, you are still learning valuable
lessons that you will carry forever!” Michelle feels taking classes at SSC is important “...because most jobs these days require
that you have a degree of some sort. This program can help students determine if health care is right for them and help decide
what career path they want to explore more.”
Alumni Michelle Dieringer
SSC Forestry; A competitive advantage in the field!
Forestry Dominates Fieldtest
June 17, 2015
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC FORESTRY
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Reaping green benefits!
SSC Forestry Program
focuses on responsible
SSC Forestry students their hands on work fellspoke at the SOLVE ing trees, and a picnic table environmental management
and habitat restoration
Green Team Summit this
year, with a presentation
about hand and power
tools used in stream and
forest restoration work.
Taking forest restoration a bit further, students collected baseline
stream data instrumental
for a multi million dollar
water improvement project currently taking place
in Clackamas County.
Students also raised
funds selling firewood
they provided through
built from lumber milled
from those same trees.
When students weren’t
busy fundraising or felling
trees, they were competing at various events and
attending conferences all
over the state.
SSC Forestry club dominated technical events at
forestry contests during
2015-16, with one student
winning award for Overall Technical Forester, and
A forestry student demonstrates the
placing top in the state.
proper way to scale a tree...Safety
first!
Catering builds skills
Culinary Arts; Cookin’ & Catering
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC CULINARY ARTS
June 17, 2015
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Culinary students Tami
Warner, Tiana Warner,
and Angela Lou (right)
placed first in the Career
Pathways Showcase, and
Annie Conser took first
in Commercial Baking at SkillsUSA state.
These four students will
compete in the National
SkillsUSA competition
this summer.
Advanced
Culinary
students also placed first
in the OCI Kitchen Ninja Competition against
13 other high schools,
and students participated in the Iron Chef Gin-
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Catering Community
Culinary SkillsUSA winners
gerbread Competition.
Advanced Culinary students spend their time in
the Verte’ deli, where they
create delicious lunch specials on a daily basis. Adv.
culinary student interns
man the MudHut Coffee
Shop, where students hone
their Barista skills.
All culinary students offer catering services to district sponsored and outside
events. Catering events give
students the opportunity to
gain real-world experience
in both the back and front
of house, as well as refine
their customer service
skills. Students of all levels
who participate in Cul Club
spent the past year catering 1-2 events per month
for the NCSD Bond Committee, ranging from multi
course events to buffet and
simple desserts.
Showcasing skills in competitions
Manufacturing; Metals Mastery
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC MANUFACTURING
June 17, 2015
Manufacturing projects included trophies
for car shows, fabrication of a street sign for
MHS baseball fields,
storage gates for Lot
Whitcomb elementary,
a staircase for the Clackamas Little League softball tower, and repairs to
NCSD desks and handrails, and NC soccer
goals. Students helped
with the Rose Society
Bazaar, and hosted the
SSC Car show pancake
feed to raise funds for
SkillsUSA.
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A competitive
advantage!
Senior Brianna Stanfield demonstrates her abilities during the annual SkillsUSA State welding competition held at SSC.
Students Rock American
Welding Society Certification
Record-breaking 8 students test!
Three female students
took 4th place in the Lower ColumbiaCommunityCollege welding contest,
while five students placed
in the Linn Benton Community College Weld
contest.
At SkillsUSA
state this spring, manufacturing students place
42 out of 48 possible places, sending two first place
winners to Nationals this
summer!
High schoolers accompany preschoolers for
Hands-on Early Learning
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC EARLY LEARNING
June 17, 2015
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Students also attended the
NAEYC Oregon state conference for Early Childhood
Educators.
The Early Learning program introduced students
to an online tool this year
for students to use as part
of their preschooler assessment process. Advanced
students do a case study,
observing and assessing a
preschool child attending
the Early Learning Center
Preschool. The online tool
proved very helpful. 201415 welcomed two new preEL high school student supervises a school teachers at the center.
preschooler enjoying “hands-on” ac- After a successful year Early
Five Early Learning
students competed in
the CCC Regional Skills
competition where Senior
Payton Gillis received 2nd
place in the Early Childhood Education contest.
tivity at the aquarium
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Learning Preschool children are ready to transition to full day kindergarten next fall.
Early Learning students
enjoy Aquarium with
Preschoolers
Students participated in
several special events involving the preschool children including a special
field trip to the Portland
Aquarium this past spring.
Enjoying a day bonding
with preschoolers, EL’s high
school students toured the
aquarium helping the preschoolers with “hands on”
learning.
Dual fire trucks extend student learning
Fire Training Fuels Interest
June 17, 2015
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC FIRE SCIENCE
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Fire Science students
spent time offsite practice drills at the NW Fire
Training Center, as well as
Mt. Pleasant Elementary
School and the Jennings
Lodge Retreat Center.
Though students practice
drills on campus, visiting
training centers offsite give
them the opportunity to
engage in safety drills on a
larger scale.
Students spent a day at
PDX Airport Fire Department where students enjoyed a tour of the facilities
and learned about various
apparatus used. A demon-
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stration of the water truck A 1995 HME Pumper
was very interesting.
with Central States body
has just under 7000 hours
and 85,000 miles, and will
join the program’s existing
truck.
By doubling the number
of fire trucks, each student
will have twice as much
Fire science “tests the water” on the time practicing; pulling
hose, taking water from
newly donated Fire Truck
hydrants, and raising ladThe SSC Fire Science ders. “With more time on
Program received a sec- the truck and using equipond fire truck donated by ment, students will graduthe Clackamas Fire Dis- ate more skilled than ever
trict, which will double the before and ready for colhands-on opportunities for lege.” States Karen Phillips,
students in the program! SSC principal.
Students honored at film festival
BSM Trumps Skills Comp
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC BROADCASTING
June 17, 2015
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BSM; A Showcase for Many Talents
honored for their bullying video which made it
to the finals. Students
also produced an original
movie which was showcased with actors from
Clackamas High School at
the end of first semester. And, for the fourth year
in a row, they swept the
competition at the CCC
Skills Competition during
the spring event. Every
student in the third level
class was honored during
the SSC Awards Ceremony
BSM student preps Holiday film set with two students winning
Students in the Broadcasting and Social Media
program had another
successful year. Students
in the program won Best
Music Video at the All
American High School
Film Festival and were
scholarships. Looking forward to
seeing continued professional growth graduates
Calen Coates, Hope Alexander, Sierra Bish, and
Blake Hawes.
BSM student displays promo at
district event
Alphabet critters prove popular
Digital Design “Lets It Loose”
June 17, 2015
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC DIGITAL DESIGN
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Digital Design Focus: Elements of good design
Using the software necessary to create it
er contest, sponsored by the
Don’t let it loose Oregon Invasive Species
Council. Illustrating threats
posed to Oregon habitat by
the release of non-native
species, students created
poster designs conveying
the theme. Senior Edwin
Leong won first place, with
6 other students placing
honorable mentions. Upper
level students also spent the
year designing 3D Robots,
The winning poster
an SSC promotional student
Level 2...
T-shirt design, publishing
Digital Design Level the PACE Yearbook, and a
2 students entered the redesigned logo for the Tri
“Don’t Let it Loose” post- County Farms in 2016.
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Level 1...
Level 1 students developed their design and
software skills through a
variety of projects, such as
the personal info-graphic inventory and Alphabet Critters posters. This
poster project showcases
one letter of varying fonts;
used to portray an animal.
Alphabet Critters is such
a popular project, posters
were incorporated into the
SSC Commons redesign
project. Samples are on display at Milwaukie City Hall,
after being showcased in a
recent Milwaukie First Friday event.
Ag Ready for Fair Season
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Ag produces results!
Parli Pro and Poultry
teams qualified at the
State FFA competition and
will both compete at the
FFA National convention
in October.
Fundraisers to help with
travel costs include the annual plant sale, Christmas
tree sales and BBQ. Head
to the land lab July 27 for
a BBQ! Promoting garden
to plate, folks can enjoy
land lab grown fresh corn,
tomatoes, and cucumbers,
as well as a delicious beef
brisket and BBQ chicken.
Students in Ag participate
in the Clackamas County
and Oregon State Fair each
year, showing and selling
their animals. Recently Ag
FFA students participated
in the filming of the Oregon
State Fair Promo video in
An Ag Student speaks on
state fair promo
Health Experiences Valued
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC HEALTH SERVICES
June 17, 2015
Rebels with a CAUSE!
Education holds the key to Quitting
(an anti-smoking group)
testified in Salem and were
part of a bill being passed
that requires a minimum
age limit to buy e-cigarettes. Providence Rebels
Student display illustrates the
effects of smoking
SSC Health Services
students had another
busy and successful year.
Students that participate
in the Providence Rebels Health services educates all ages!
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New this summer...
The Summer Ag daycamp program 2015. After
receiving a $1000 grant
from Wilco for the Ag
camp, two students (Monica and Aiden) have organized and developed the
curriculum. High school
SSC Ag students will act
as the camp counselors.
Grant money will be used
to purchase gift cards for
camp counselors.
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Building Electronics!
Components spark student interest
Beginning
Electronics students worked on a
number of projects. Students built practice circuit
boards with 3 lights, as
they learned to solder and
assemble
components.
Students perfected their
soldering skills producing
the flashing pumpkins and
holiday trees which were
they sold at the bazaar in
December.
Advanced
students
learned about analog frequencies as they built a
16 tone generator, worked
on variable strobe lights,
a stereo graphic equalizer,
and a home stereo amplifier.
Students also worked on a
power supply conversion for
a wall plug to convert DC to
AC power.
SkillsUSA
Internships to note:
Senior Natalia Garzon
applied and was offered a
paid Internship position
with Kaiser Hospital.
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Program Grows
The SSC Electronics program improves and grows
each year. This year the
program had the largest
number of students ever to
complete a semester of electronics, and over 70 students
participated in the new Engineering Robotics class.
As the Program’s leadership component, students
can participate in SkillsUSA. Ten students competed
at state, 6 of whom placed.
Two won first place, qualifying them to compete
in the SkillsUSA National Electronics students engage in a
competition in June.
hovercraft flight last fall
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Projects promote
Students took part in
SkillsUSA competitions,
and hosted the Annual
fundraising SSC Cruise-In
Car Show, which represented over 150 cars this
year. The Cruise-In welcomed some alumni automotive students who have
gone on to successful careers with Northside Ford
and LNC Trucking.
Another student “project” car this year was the 71
Chevy C10 pickup belonging to program sponsors
Rich and Shirley Quam,
whose generous donation
will help students attend
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SkillsUSA Nationals.
On the scholarship
front, 5 auto students will
go on to study in the Diesel program at PCC, and
five will join other automotive programs at UTI,
Clark College, Toyota
and Ford.
2 students “delve deep” into Auto
Showcasing skills in competitions
Law Leans to Learning
Solder, Strobes, & Stereo
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students held two events
at the home high schools,
Kick Butts Day and the
Great American Smoke
Out. The purpose? To
educate youth about the
dangers of smoking. Students also participated in
the American Lung Association Stair Climb, the
Relay for Life Event and
the Timbers Kid’s Day.
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC AUTO
Auto students learned
shop fundamentals, built
project cars, and participated in the Portland
Roadster show, where
students set-up vehicle
displays for the show.
AST entered the student
Project car, a unique
pedal car (with it’s custom designed teardrop
trailer). Manufacturing
students produced the
custom tailgate for the
special trailer, and electronics students created
turn signals and headlights.
Electronics students qualify for Nationals!
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Auto Cranks Out Project Cars
honor of the Fair’s 150th
anniversary.
Students
Samantha Skinner and
Sadie Vollendorf were interviewed by KGW news
team.
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Roadsters, pickups, and pedal cars...
Summer farm daycamp offered
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC AG
Health students foster non-smoking campaign
June 17, 2015
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC LAW
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Working with realism
The Law Enforcement
program received a grant
from CTech for Blood
Spatter heads for the CSI
course (like those used in
real CSI labs). This will add
to course content for an
awesome 2015-2016!
Law enforcement students participated in the
Oregon Leadership Institute, organized a Toy Drive
for a camp for Foster children, participated in the
CCC Regional Skills Contest and at the SkillsUSA
State competition this year.
Advanced level students
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Headrick put in countless
hours assisting in the SkillsUSA training, and Jason
Pisha, Starla Kilcup, and
Victoria Scholes have been
volunteering as judges in CSI
for the last five years. Thank
you all for helping to ensure
that our student efforts will
be successful.
attended the Governor’s Oregon Safety and Health Fair
this spring and ended the
year by presenting culminating projects on a 7 week
series of Victimology,
The Law SkillsUSA team
had a successful year. State
First place winners travel to
Kansas City to participate in
the National SkillsUSA competition in June.
Law Enforcement volunteers Staff Sgt. Daniel Tomes
US Army, Sgt. Mike McIrvin
Lake Oswego Police, Sgt.
Erin Brisben Clackamas
student demos fingerprinting
County SO, and Johnny Law
technique during a Skills contest
Savvy BAM students adept in competitions
BAM Burns at WRLC & ICDC
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
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BAM DECA students participated in the Western
Regional Leadership Conference, where students were
accepted and participated
in the Disney YES (Youth
Education Series) program.
The program gives students
a hands-on, educational adventure, where they practice
teamwork, critical thinking,
and problem solving skills.
Students were also fortunate
to attend the DECA state
competition in late February,
and DECA ICDC in Florida
in the spring.
Students Nikki Schultz,
Tristan Blakely and Amelia
Alcala submitted a 40 page
project on the Business and
Management
program’s
Courtside Student Store,
earning gold Certification
for the SSC student run
business. Senior Landon
Rufener and 2015-16 DECA
State District 1 VP Matthew
Rhine took first and second
place in the western region
for their project in Virtual
Business; Hotel Challenge.
DECA fundraisers included the popular Annual Holiday Bazaar, and the DECA
Fine Dining/Silent Auction
event. Matthew Parker and
River Meyer organized and
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ran the seventh Annual
SSC Holiday Bazaar, and
won 1st in state for their
written project about the
event.
The new DECA officer
team is busy preparing
for 2015-16 school year.
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Special events
Advanced Cos students
planned special salon events
each with a unique theme,
décor, drinks and nibbles,
just like commercial salons.
Teams or individuals managed their own event, including advertising, lining
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Shadow program, where
students visit a local
beauty school 4 times
per month, to learn
about facilities, programs and licensing requirements.
Program Benefits
SSC students can earn
transferable hours
Students can earn up
to 700 transferable hours
(2300 hours are required
for licensing) which benefit them with experience,
technique and confidence
as they enter a professional program.
First Aid training allays new parent fears
PACE Enjoys Banner Year!
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC PACE PROGRAM
June 17, 2015
2015 was a banner academic year for PACE, which
graduated 15 students, four
of whom were early graduates! Three January grads
went to CCC to take advantage of the Early College Options program where they
received a free semester of
academic classes. PACE students won more scholarship
money this year than in any
recent year past. Congratulations to Sierra Hebert, Meaghan Wilkinson and Kali
Lyons.
The PACE program again
welcomed back the McVeys,
who come each year to
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provide CPR and First Aid
training focused on infant
and child needs. The ability
to walk out of the workshop
and know they can confidently handle a medical crisis is of enormous comfort
to the young PACE parents.
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DECA students perform a
teamwork drill during WRLC
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A Cos student practices her “style”
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION
June 17, 2015
A new program this
year at SSC, Translation
and Interpretation offered students a chance
to explore a future in
Cosmetology Builds Critical Skills
up “employees”, managing
the dispensary, problem
solving, and providing customer support. Attendees
enjoyed this invaluable
learning experience.
Cos 1 had many dedicated
students, who worked hard
on fundraisers for SkillsUSA. Streaks for Awareness,
Toesies N’ Posies, and the
Annual Cruise-In Car Show
were all successful. Cosmetology students also toured
local beauty schools on field
trips, getting exposure to
some of their future options.
Advanced students participated in the Beauty School
Translation & Interpretation
Interpretation Basics
Cos students host successful salon events
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First year program a success for
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PACE traveled to
Scouter’s Mountain to
take part in the COPES
Ropes Course for the
last time due to closure
of the facility. Students
spent a day in the great
outdoors, away from
the distractions of campus demands, as they
engaged in a rigorous
day of problem-solving, team building, and
trust-based
exercises.
Highlights were pulling
beloved teacher, Eileen
McGurn, up into the air
PACE students enjoy the COPES for a first flight on the
“Flying Squirrel.”
rope course
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the field of interpretation.
Focusing on an introduction to the profession with
an exploration of the terminology and ethics founded
the basis for the class this
year. As a current Court
Interpreter, the instructor
brought a background in
translation to the position
and a unique perspective
for students interested in a
future in the field of translation.
ty Courthouse this past
spring where they toured
the facilities and had an
opportunity to interview
two court interpreters.
The court interpreters answered students’ questions
and explained the materials and process required to
become a Certified Interpreter in the State of Oregon. After the session with
interpreters, students got
to sit in and observe 3 different court proceedings, a
criminal trial, a civil trial
and community court. All
Students enjoyed a trip in all it was a very interestto the Multnomah Coun- ing and informative trip.
Tours and Translation
A T&I student at work
Dual credit options expand for CAD Students
CAD Drafting Futures
June 17, 2015
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC CAD
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CAD students toured
professional
architecture facilities, met with
mentor designers and
architects,
developed
new product prototypes,
learned powerful new 3D
software, and drafted designs for the historic Bank
of Commerce redesign in
Oregon City.
CAD level 2 students
participated
in
the
NAWIC (National Association of Women in
Construction) CAD competition and won! CAD
student Laurel Shannon
was awarded $450.00 for
Room Legend
Bathroom
Coffee Shop
Elevator
Grocery
Lobby
Retail
Stairwell
3
Ground Floor
1" = 20'-0"
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Green Roof
12" = 1'-0"
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Section
1" = 20'-0"
Room Legend
Elevator
The Orbis Building
This mixed-use residential and commercial building will
change the appearance of Oregon City.
Greenroof
Stairwell
Studio
2
Victor
& Zac
Interior
12" = 1'-0"
Propsal
Building
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CAD Bank of Commerce project
final model
Scale
her first place design at regionals!
Exciting news…CAD is
articulated with Portland
Community College in 3
departments now, Architectural Design, CAD, and Engineering! This means SSC
CAD students can now earn
dual credit in PCC’s Survey of
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Engineering class.
Thanks to a PCC grant encouraging females to look at
engineering careers, CAD
received equipment donations of an UP!mini 3D
printer, a new laptop, a Sense
3D scanner, and a vinyl cutter, tools which will come
in handy next year as SSC
CAD1 students participate
in the PCC Game-A-Thon
competition. CAD looks forward to students exploring
bridges, electrical engineering, prototyping, and professional panel discussions as
students explore engineering
career options.
Online newspaper gains followers
Print Journalism Pauses Press
A YEAR IN REVIEW FROM SSC PRINT JOURNALISM
June 17, 2015
Print Journalism focused this year on
managing
resource
materials, writing effective headlines feature stories, editorials,
and sports articles.
Throughout the year,
students worked on the
basics of good journalism, news writing basics
and general writing tips.
As they progressed further into the year, the
focus ranges from questioning and interviewing sources, copy editing and stylebook. From
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Stylebook, Style Wise
Journalism excels in copy
elements of style to copy
editing tips and tricks, students learned as they wrote
and published The Compass, the online student
newspaper for NCSD high
school students. Dedicated
to providing
high school
students
school with
local, state
and national
news, The
Compass is
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the online student newspaper that follows and reports on news throughout
the district. The content is
created by students in the
newspaper class at SSC,
and managed by a staff of
four advanced journalism students. http://ncsd12newspaper.weebly.com/