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Aspiring Young Professionals Dinner
January 26, 2015
Newton Medical Center Job Shadow
Day
NCCA and Alcovy Healthcare students
attending Newton Medical Center Job
Shadow Day Tuesday, March 10th.
Students shadowed hospital personnel in the
areas of radiology, pharmacy, surgical
nursing and many others. Students were
treated to lunch after shadowing and given
important tips on interviewing from Newton
Medical Center’s Director of Human
Resources. Many of these healthcare
students will complete Newton Medical
Center’s Junior Volunteer Program this
summer in order to intern in the fall. WorkBased Learning Coordinator Debra Lary,
CTI Coordinator Loineda Dean and
healthcare trainers Leslie Cole and Terri
McCoy also attended Job Shadow Day.
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The Newton County Schools Work-Based
Learning and Youth Apprenticeship Program
presented the annual Aspiring Young
Professionals Dinner at the Newton College &
Career Academy. The event was held January
26th. The AYP Dinner is a networking and
dining etiquette event that had numerous
community and business leaders in attendance.
School board members, teachers, school
administrators and staff were also invited.
This year’s business speaker was Mr. Jared
Rutberg, President and CEO of RJR
Construction, Covington Pro-Lube and
GameTime. Mr. Rutberg had six tips to
success that he spoke to the Work-Based
Learning students about. He encouraged the
students to not burn their bridges and to treat
everyone with respect.
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This year’s education speak was Dr. Sandra
Owens, principal of Alcovy High School.
Dr. Owens discussed her military career and
how it helped her succeed in all of the jobs she
has had.
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WBL Coordinator & CTI Coordinator for
Alcovy High School, Nikyta Belser – WBL
Coordinator for Eastside High School, Alisa
Echols – CTE Coordinator for Eastside High
School, Julie Brand – WBL Coordinator for
Newton High School, Tyshema Mitchell – CTI
Coordinator for Newton High School, Loineda
Dean, CTI Coordinator for NCCA and Debra
Lary, Work-Based Learning Coordinator for
NCCA, Youth Apprenticeship Coordinator for
NCSS and EBI Coordinator for NCCA.
Written by: Debra Lary
Dinner was prepared and served by the
Newton College & Career Academy Culinary
students. Chef Ronald Edwards and Chef Scott
Quinlan run The Academy Bistro, which hosts
catering events run by the NCCA culinary
students.
Some of the businesses that attended were
Michelin, A Better Plumbing, The
Covington/Newton Chamber, Georgia
Piedmont Technical College, Merryvale
Assisted Living, Arts Association, Newton
Medical Center, BB&T, PruittHealth Hospice,
D&F Construction, Sagamore Home Mortgage
and others. The Work-Based Learning
students were given a grade on how well they
dressed professionally, networked and used
proper dining etiquette.
The Work-Based Learning Coordinators from
all four high schools have been preparing the
WBL students for this event since September.
The WBL Coordinators are Chris Newsham NEWTON COLLEGE AND CAREER ACADEMY
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CTI VISITS THE CENTER FOR
DISEASE CONTROL
CTI students attended a tour of the CDC in
Atlanta on January 27, 2015. CDC staff in the
Office of Minority Health and Health Equity
gave presentations to the students on career
opportunities that are available at the CDC.
Students were given a guided tour of the David
J. Spencer Museum and were provided
information on the mission of the CDC. The
CDC Disability Program Manager, Darlo
Koldenhoven, emphasized to the students the
many career opportunities that are available at
the CDC. This was truly a great experience for
our students. Darlo Koldenhoven coordinated
the tour with the assistance of Karen Royston,
Program Director for the Georgia High School
High Tech Program as well as Loineda Dean,
Alisa Echols, Tyshema Mitchell, and Chris
Newsham, CTI coordinators within the
Newton County school system.
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DESKTOPS 4 ED
The Newton College and Career Academy
(NCCA) Computer Club is made up of six
student associates in Ms. Ashley Dawson’s
Information Technology Support Class. The
six associates refurbished surplus desktop
computers in order to provide low income
families with a computer. In order to receive a
computer, a middle school student and his/her
parent had to complete an online application
through Survey Monkey and the link was
posted on all of the Middle Schools’ websites
and the NCCA website. One desktop per
household was awarded this year by lottery
drawing. This offer was given to middle
school students receiving free or reduced lunch
benefits only, and next year the program might
be extended to the High School level based on
demand. The first distribution was held on
December 2nd, 2014. The Computer Club
awarded 15 desktops, and there will be an
additional 25 desktops distributed in Spring,
2015. The student associates dressed in their
Business Attire and stayed after school to
present the computers to 15 excited families on
December 2nd. They demonstrated the basic
‘care and feeding’ of a computer, and how to
hook up the cables once families got their
computer home. The associates also
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demonstrated how to download Microsoft
Office Suite available through the student’s
Office 365 e-mail account. The money made
from this endeavor will go back into the
program and hopefully the associates will
exceed next year’s goal by refurbishing 25 or
more desktop computers in the spring! A
special thanks to the NCSS Technology
Department, Ms. Ashley Dawson, NCCA
Administration, and the Work Based Learning
and Entrepreneurial Business Incubator Staff
for their support.
NCCA Computer Club members and staff
worked together to refurbish NCSS desktop
computers, making them "like new" to be
donated to students for a $25.00- onetime fee.
Once the parent signed the purchase
agreement, the $25.00 processing fee was nonrefundable. What is included in the packageblack case CPU with Intel Core 2Duo
processor, minimum 2 GB of RAM, minimum
80 GB hard drive, one black keyboard, one
mouse, one LCD monitor, and necessary
cables with Vista OS, and new mouse pad.
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