Although the academic year is coming to an end, students from our OVCTC Early Childhood Education program are still busy helping students at West Union Elementary. Juniors Hailey Cole and Tori Whitley are shown working with students one on one and in small groups on foundational skills mastered in kindergarten. These opportunities are beneficial for both kindergarten students and our Early Childhood Education students.
The OVCTC is grateful to Rick Carn from Huntley's Napa in West Union for joining the Ag Mech juniors for NAPA Prolink training. This online program allows our students to view parts, research, and build quotes. Thank you for investing in our students!
Last week, the OVCTC Ag Business seniors were very busy brushing up on their animal science skills. The students in the junior class selected the bulls to be used to breed the 5 cows and the 2 heifers on the school farm. Seniors synchronized their female bovines using CIDRs and then conducted a timed AI session today with former Ag Business graduate, David Semple. Nearly all of the students were able to learn this for the first time. Special thanks to both David and another former Ag Business alumni and parent, Jeremy Simpson, for their donations of time and supplies to help our students get a real life experience! It’s great to have wonderful people in our community who provide us with kind of support. Crossing our fingers for some baby calves in January of 2022!
The Ohio Valley CTC Culinary arts program gave their time for community service to Saint Vincent De Paul. The students helped carry and arrange food for the church and organized the pick up location. Saint Vincent De Paul has been very generous to our students in the past. Our students wanted to give back to them.
The Adams County Ohio Valley School Board will meet in regular session this evening, April 19, 2021, at 5pm. The meeting format has been changed from in person to virtual. You may watch it live on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBhKoQXpH-c
Though Kindergarten Ag Day was not hosted in its’ traditional format this year due to Covid, the Early Childhood Education students did their best to engage the elementary students with their Kindergarten Ag Day presentations!
Thank you to Jimmy McAdams for his generous donation of test plot seed and other supplies to the Ag Business program for our farm test plots! Mr. McAdams is an OVCTC alumni and large supporter of our program selling Stewart Seed if anyone is looking for seed, look him up!
The ACOVSD and the Ohio Valley CTC will be participating in the OHYES! survey on May 10th - 12th. Please see the link below for more information
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GM4Z4z-QFxo85XzBvqyG8dvdMAL_AZbz/view?usp=sharing
Congratulations to OVCTC Junior Lukas Roush for winning the 3rd Nine Weeks attendance award in Mr. Cooper’s CNC Machining Lab. Mr. Cooper presented Lukas with a new mitre and caliper for his achievement!
The OVCTC Ag Business Program would like to say thank you to all that came out and supported us at the pork palooza Saturday!! If you missed us but still would like to purchase local pork, don’t panic!! We’ve got you covered! We are still accepting preorders! If interested feel free to contact the school @ 937-544-2336 or email luke.rhonemus@ovsd.us
All preorders will help us donate more to our local veterans. Orders are due Thursday (April 15th) at noon. Thank you in advance! 🙂
Mr. Palmer’s Automotive Technology Program completed their “Community Day” service project by assembling the new grill for the Manchester Veterans’ Club!
The OVCTC Ag Business program is having a Pork-palooza this Saturday April 10th from 10am to 1pm in the Career and Tech Center front parking lot! We are offering discounts and specials so please come and support our program! Barbecuing?? We will have brats, chops, bacon and more available! Sample packages available and bundles. Save big on bigger quantity purchases! This will help the students to continue marketing their pork for next year. Thanks to End of the Ridge for helping us with storage and processing this year! We appreciate all of the community support we can get.
In addition, the students have decided to set a goal of $8000 in gross sales. 10% of all proceeds will go to the Manchester Veterans Club to support our local veterans and community! Mark your calendars and we look forward to seeing you on Saturday! Pre-orders also available by calling the school at 937-544-2336 or by emailing luke.rhonemus@ovsd.us
The students in Mr. Cooper’s CNC Machining lab are writing programs to mill a variety of projects this week!
OVCTC Juniors in our Early Childhood Education program had a busy day Thursday as they spent the day at West Union Elementary. After hiding Easter eggs outside they delivered special letters from the Easter bunny that shared a message about teamwork and having fun. ECE students then led the fun outside making sure all students had fun and were safe. They ended the day delivering pizza and cupcakes to students in grade K-2. Thanks so much to the staff at WUES who provide such wonderful opportunities for our students to participate in.
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For their “Community Day” service project, the students in Mrs. Grooms’ Health Careers Technology program created Easter Care packages which included a card and a stuffed animal for the residents at Adams County Manor (74 individuals), Monarch Meadows in Seaman (60 individuals) Adams County Regional Medical Center (28 individuals) and the Eagle Creek Nursing Center in West Union (68 residents).
The OVCTC Ag Mechanics program students competed in a small engines competition this week and completed activities at various stations in the lab!
The students in the OVCTC Culinary Arts program have been developing their cake decorating skills this week, creating Easter-themed decorated cakes!
The OVCTC hosted Sophomore Tours with the 10th graders from Peebles & Manchester HS last week. Than you for joining us to learn more about career tech education!
This week, the Ohio Valley CTC Ag Business program hosted a meat lab workshop with Dr. Lyda Garcia from The Ohio State University Animal Science Department. This was a “cross-curricular” learning experience with the CTC Culinary Arts program participating in the workshop as well. With the current, high-demand in careers for meat packing, processing, and handling, Dr. Garcia was gracious enough to answer questions and provide demonstrations on meat handling and processing while also outlining careers in the industry. On day one of the workshop, there was an introduction on the process with stunning, cleaning, skinning, and quartering a hog. On day two, the workshop reviewed the chilling process. Dr. Gacia also shared her knowledge on executing primal and retail cuts as well as the process for vacuum packaging the meat cuts.
