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DECA International Career Development conference

Curtis represents! Joey, Jake and Mr. Ringenbach attended the DECA ICDC in Atlanta, GA April 23-26, 2022. To learn more:

DECA ICDC

CHS Earth Day

CHS Earth Day service project in which all attending E.S. (Environmental Science) students in nine sections had the opportunity to engage in invasive species removal of English Ivy and Scotch Broom as well as plant about 30 native species plants in the park today. Local collaboration and partnership from our community: Friends of Colgate Park, Pierce Conversation District and Refuse Company.

Something cool in CTE

Check out Ja'Shon Pennick's Lacosse logo he created in our AP 2D Studio Art Class.

CTE Classes are more than just Voc Ed and allow students to explore their passions.

#weareCTE #ourvikingnation

Pierce County Skills Center:
Student of the Month

Aidan Bibby and Hayleigh Beverly both earned Student of the Month honors at the Pierce County Skills Center for their efforts in the Fire Science program.

Aidan Bibby: Aidan is a very motivated and dedicated individual. His assignments are always turned in on time, complete, and accurate. Aidan is one of the top performers in the class and he exemplifies the qualities employers seek.

Hayleigh Beverly- Hayleigh is a very motivated and dedicated individual. She works well with others, contributes meaningfully to class discussions, and is focused on continuous improvement.

Student of the Month November:
Aidan Bibby

Student of the Month November:
Hayleigh Beverly

DECA EXCELS AT STATE

CHS DECA made the State Tournament! This weekend CHS DECA teacher Darin Ringenbach

and 14 students competed at the state tournament in Bellevue in marketing, automotive marketing

design, digital marketing, and sales competitions. Jake Lowery and Joey McInley won state titles!

Congratulations to them and all our state competitors, including Braden Betteridge, Nicole Chang,

Kris Chinn, Miles Clinton, Nayeli Corniel, John Cotter, Romeo Ibarra, Bren Meade, Josh

Parrish, Emma Schmidt, Ben Strupinski, and Jose Zuniga. Go Viks!

Congrats Joey and Jake!

Science Olympiad Regional Tournament

Eighteen Curtis students participated in the Science Olympiad Regional Tournament from February 28th through March 5th, 2022. Varsity Curtis Beserker team qualified to advance to the State Tournament in April! Placing 17th out of 36 competing teams!

Honorable mentions: Grace Haueisen (Club president, 12th) along with Samantha Rizon (9th) took 8th place in the Anatomy and Physiology event.

Andy Huynh (10th) and Ethan Yamada (11th) took 11th place in Disease Detectives.

Jeonghyun Park (10th) and Chase Norris (10th) took 3rd in Environmental Chemistry.

Kael Bird (11th) and Hannah Buehler (11th) took 4th in Rocks and Minerals.

Aria Wood (11th) and Delaney Ahrens (11th) took 8th in Write it, CAD it.

We would not be going to the State tournament without Jazzy Belin (Secretary + Treasure + Communications Director, 12th). Last minute, Jazzy filled in for MANY different events: Gravity Vehicle (14th place), Experimental Design, Ornithology, Code Busters, and WiFi Lab.

DECA heads to state!

14 Curtis students competed at their Regional Event to qualify to compete at the State Career Development Conference in March.

To learn more about DECA, visit: https://wadeca.org/

CTE Advisory meeting

University Place CTE educators collaborates with the community professionals to update, modify, and improve the quality of the Career and Technical Education program available to students in our schools.

At the winter advisory meeting, CTE students showed cased their work and presented to program advisors, staff and fellow students. Dinner was provided by CHS Culinary Arts.

Veterans Day 2021

JROTC students representing Curtis High School in the Veterans Parade in Auburn, WA.

Veterans Day 2021 @ CHS

JROTC and Visual/Audio Production students worked together in creating video segments played throughout the week during the Veteran Virtual Assemblies. Students recognized and paid service to each branch of the military, and CHS veteran staff members.

JROTC Basic leadership Training

JROTC had a great trip out to the Cispus Learning Center on October 15 and 16th where we conducted a modified BLT (Basic Leadership Training) camp. We had 77 cadets attend (40 on day 1 and 37 on day 2). The cadets did a great job and earned meritorious promotions to their next rank.

Environmental Science

We have a variety of young adults taking CTE classes every year, representing a growing variety of ethnic backgrounds and first-languages. I had an Arabic-speaking student in first semester Environmental Science who struggled with the academic English of the discipline and end up, as hard as she tried, without enough earned points to pass.

I offered her a 'virtual-version' of a credit retrieval program that involved preparing answers to sixteen questions that covered all first semester Environmental Science topics; she then needed to come to Curtis for a face-to-face (socially distance maintained) 'interview' in which she had to orally provide complete and correct answers to seven of those questions.

A school 'team' supported her preparations--she got the questions translated into Arabic; a district English Language Learner (ELL) teacher helped her create answers to the questions, and her Curtis counselor set up back up translation support--so that on the interview day she was ready! She was able to consistently use many scientific terms in answering seven questions over fifteen minutes from memory. She definitely earned credit in Environmental Science first semester!