KSD AG/FFA At the Benton Franklin Fair

Students from Kamiakin and Kennewick High Schools Agriculture and FFA programs particiapted in the Benton Franklin Fair. Students showed their animals - rabbits, pigs and sheep - with great success! Congratulations to all fair participants!!

Sumo Bot Competition

Students from Arlis Hoglen's PC Troubleshooting class at Kamiakin High School built mini sumo robots from scratch and participated in a competition at PNNL. Click here to see more: http://www.kndo.com/story/18518805/student-built-robots-square-off-in-sumo-contest-at-pnnl
 

PROJECT GOODWILL

Goodwill Industries of the Columbia hosted the 4 Annual Project Goodwill event on Thursday, May 3rd at the Gjerde Center at Columbia Basin College. Eight teams from local schools DECA and FCCLA clubs participated in the annual event, designing, developing and modeling, three outfits based on their musical theme.

Students spend months working on selecting the right music and creating amazing outfits. This years three categories were: Book-It - an outfit made from books, magazines or other paper materials; Re-Mix It - an outfit made out of items in a "donation box" provided by Goodwill, where students had to use a piece of every item in the box and a piece of the box, and; Mash-It Up - an outfit designed to go with the selected music. 

All of the teams were extremely creative with fun and amazing talent displayed in their outfits. The Kennewick HS DECA team took the top honors, winning the Best Overall category and $600.00.

This dress is made out of paper with a colorful "peacock tail" following their animal theme. Kennewick High School DECA.

The New York skyine is depicted on this dress, made of paper. Kennewick High School FCCLA.

Southridge High School DECA. The "Bride" is dressed in a paper wedding dress while the "Groom" shows off the music theme.

SHS PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

Students from the Photography 3-4 class at Southridge High School are having as Art Show & Silent Auction at You & I Framing in downtown Kennewick. On Friday, April 27th, from 6-9 p.m., photos careated by SHS students will be auctioned off. All auction proceeds will benefit World Relief Tri Cities.

Goods Made Good

In partnership with Goodwill, students in Fiber Arts classes at Kamiakin, Kennewick and Southridge High School are reusing, recycling and redesigning "old" clothing and textile goods into "new" fashions and products.

Students participated in a tour of the Pasco Goodwill store and warehouse, learning about the mission and focus of their local Goodwill stores.

The students were provided the opportunity to select merchandise that did not sell and was being sorted to be shipped out for recycling. The students developed their own designs and patterns and began to create! As projects are completed, we'll share the "before" and "after" creations!

Kennewick HS ASL Students Attend "See What I'm Saying"

Suzanne Benfield, ASL instructor at Kennewick High School, and her students attended a screening of the documentary, See What I'm Saying, as well as performances by two local Deaf ASL teachers and two performers from the film.

The screening was held on May 20-21 at the Stanford Theater in Tiger Wood Center, Nike World Headquarter, Beaverton, Oregon and was sponsored by NWASLTA.

Pictured are Kristie Long, Alaena Sharp and Melissa Schmitz with TL Forsberg, a singer/signer.

Kennewick High Wins Best Overall in Project Goodwill

Congratulations to Kennewick High School's Marketing & Management and DECA students who competed in Project Goodwill on Wednesday night, winning the Best Overall category and the Best Donation Box outfit, winning a total of $700 for their DECA Chapter.

The Goodwill Industries sponsored event, Project Goodwill, is an opportunity for area high school students to showcase their creativity and compete for awards and prize money based on the creation of three outfits in specified categories.

Students designed and created outfits in three categories; Devine Demin, Donation Box, and Literacy. Additional prizes were given for Best Portfolio, Peoples Choice, and Best Marketing Plan as well as the Best Overall category.

The Devine Denim outfit was modeled by Ryley Dennis and created and designed by Katey Richins and Blair Westerman. The Donation Box outfit is an outfit made from items contained in a donation box provided by Goodwill. The outfit must contain a piece from each item in the box....even if it is not an apparel item. The Donation Box outfit was created and designed by Deborah Ramirez and modeled by Yuleni Martinez. The Literacy outfit was constructed entirely from books and magazines. Alex Simons modeled the dress and also created and designed the dress along with Michelle Meehan, Paul Martinez and Casey Brush.

Jose Magana and Fernando Ayala were MC's for the fashion show.

Kennewick HS Team Read

Kennewick High School students in Team Read assist elementary students as they learn to read!

Kennewick Students Participate in Engineering Competition!

On Feburary 25th, students from Mr. Quesnell's drafting classes, Mr Long's Computer Science classes and Mr. Nett's math classes participated in the annual high school engineering competition as part of National Engineers Week, February 1-25. The competition was part of the Discover Engineering competitions, sponsored by Hanford Engineering Contractors. Students from eight area high schools participated as teams of 3-4 students with a total of 63 teams and 250 participants. The event was held at Pasco High School.

Southridge FEA Celebrate Dr. Suess's Birthday!!

In celebration of Dr. Suess's Birthday and Read Across America week, SHS FEA students hosted a storytelling with children event. The activities included storytelling, making Dr. Suess finger puppets, decorating green eggs, and flower making. The young guests received coloring books, Dr. Suess hats, a participation certificate, book marks and pencils. The entire event focused on Dr. Suess and the importance of reading!

Kamiakin Family & Comsumer Sciences Students

Students in Mrs. Willingham's Child Psychology classes have been busy this year in our community. So far this school year, the 66 students have logged over 710 hours of volunteer time working with children and the elderly! Congratulations! That is an amazing number of volunteer hours.

Students in the Kamiakin Chapter of FCCLA hosted a Valentine's Day Celebration with the residents at the Royal Columbian Retirement facility. They took cookies and puch and made a sachet craft with the residents. The residents loved having the students spend time with them and one resident even gave students hats that she had knited. The students loved the gifts!

Kennewick HS FCCLA - Off To State!!

Students in Kennewick High School's FCCLA - Family, Career and Community Leaders of America - are headed to the State Competition! At the Regional Competition held on February 15th, students placed in three events. In the Food Innovations and Recycle and Redesign events, students placed GOLD. For their Chapter Service project, they placed SILVER. Congratulations and best of luck to Tori, Amiee, Carlee and Maylen!

KeHS Technology

Students in Mr. Giancola's Material Science Technology (MST) and Construction Technology classes are pictured here.

In Construction, the student is drawing wire and demonstrating how metal can stretch. Students collect data on diameter and length and create a graph from the information collected.

An MST student has created a ring from a drawing and is designing it into wax using a Dremel tool. She created the ring from her own design and will cast it into metal.

67 Kamiakin Students Receive Top Honors at Area DECA Competition!

67 students are returning to Kamiakin with regional accolades in 21 different competitive events. Kamiakin DECA students received 15 first place prizes. the competitive events are aimed at student's career interests. This included taking a comprehensive test, followed by role playing events where students must demonstrate marketing proficiencies before judges. The students are eligible to compete at the State DECA Conference in Bellevue, WA, in March.

Congratulations to Kamiakin DECA!!

Good luck at the State Conference!

KENNEWICK HIGH SCHOOL TEAM READ

Kennewick High School students in Team Read mentor elementary students in reading. Their commitment and dedication is awesome!!

FCCLA Takes Off At Kennewick High School

As the 2010 school year begins, FCCLA students at Kennewick High School get involved!! Chapter members attended the Regional FCCLA Meeting held in Prosser on Wednesday, October 6th. Pictured are students participating in a mini-mock Recycle and Design STAR Event.

FCCLA members particiapted in the Annual Kennewick HS Homecoming parade!

Advisory Committee Members Wanted!

Welcome to the 2010-2011 school year! The Kennewick Career & Technical Education programs are looking for business and community members to serve on their Advsiory Committees. Advisory committees support specific programs and members provide valuable input and advise in the ongoing development of programs.

Members provide a variety of support activities including: reviewing curriculum and making recommendations for curriculum adoption; participating in classroom presentations; judging at student leadership events; reviewing new courses and updating current course frameworks; and assisting in the ongoing planning and development of programs.

Programs include: Agriculture, Business and Marketing, Family & Consumer Sciences, Photography, American Sign Language, Technology and Engineering, Drafting, Health Occupations and Sports Medicine, and Careers In Education.

If you are interested in becoming an advisory committee member please email Debbie McClary at debbie.mclary@ksd.org.

Kennewick HS DECA Members Attend ICDC

Kennewick HS DECA members Shelbi Wood, Katia Johnson, and Hayley Self attended the annual DECA International Career Development Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, April 24th to 27th. Shelbi and Hayley participated in the Leadership Development Academy, where they learned about working effectively in teams and strategies for making KHS DECA a stronger chapter. As an incoming State Officer, Katia participate in LEAD, which helped to prepare her for her duties as the Area 6 DECA President for the 2010-2011 school year.

Southridge Photography Students' Photos Going to Olympia!

Southridge High School students Emily Butler, Hayllie Ward, Sara Welch and Susana Vidro all reveived Judge's Awards or Honorable Mention Awards at the Annual ESD High School Art Show, held at Columbia Basin College. Emily and Hayllie's photos will be moving on to the State High School Art Show Competiton in Olympia, Washington. Good luck girls!!

AW Photo Contest

Photography students from Tri City area high schools competed in a photo contest judged by photography professionals from the Area-Wide Photography Advisory Committee. The categories were: People, Places, and Things. Student could enter photos at either the basic editing or advanced editing level.

Winners for basic editing were:
People: First place - Emily Butler (11th grade, Southridge)
Second place - Kayla Hutchings (10th grade, Southridge)

Places: First place - Brittany Evans (10th grade, Kennewick) Second place (tied)- Tyler Bower (10th grade, Southridge) and Hayllie Ward (12th grade, Southridge)
Things: First place - Roy Castillo (10th grade, Southridge)

Second place (tied) - Abrianan Monroy (10th grade, New Horizons), Joaquin Moreno (9th grade, Chiawana)

Winners for advanced editing were:
People: First place - Israel Maldonado (12th grade, Kamiakin)
Second place - Reed Draper (11th grade, Kamiakin)

Things: First place - Ben Cabrera (11th grade, New Horizons)
Second place (tied) - Joshua Alvarez (11th grade, Kamiakin), Josephine McCoy (12th grade, Kamiakin)
Best of Show - Emily Butler, Southridge