Inside this issue

National SkillsUSA Team .........................1BB&T Workforce Talent Grads .......................2Vet. Tech. Assoc. Deg. Grads .........................3Lancaster Magazine .........................................3IAOM Electrical Training .................................3Adult Student Orientation ............................4Beginning-of-Year Orientation ....................4

Coming Events

Aug. 26First Day - SecondaryAug. 30Students OffSept. 2Labor Day - Offices ClosedSept. 119/11 Ceremony @ Public Serv. CenterSept. 26LPN Class 42 Graduation

Team LCCTC Storms the National SkillsUSA ConferenceThe Lancaster County CTC National SkillsUSA Team had just completed their competitions just after the June TechConnect was published. Huge news soon followed....

The results are in and Team LCCTC has won three Gold medals, four Silver medals, and one Bronze medal at the National SkillsUSA Conference in Louis-ville, KY, at the end of June. The SkillsUSA national competitions challenge state champions to demonstrate their expertise and skills in diverse technical fields including Firefighting, Dental Assisting, Nurse Assisting, Architectural Drafting, and many others.

According to our own review of the National SkillsUSA Conference website, no other team from an individual technical institution in Pennsylvania won as many medals as Team LCCTC did. Furthermore, no other team from an individual institution in Pennsylvania won as many Gold medals as did Team LCCTC. We are checking with SkillsUSA of Pennsylvania and National SkillsUSA to confirm our review.

SkillsUSA Team Advisor and LCCTC Instructor in Architectural CAD/Design, David Ecenrode said that he could not recall any previous SkillsUSA competition where we returned with as many medals. “And I don’t remember ever bringing home THREE Gold medals,” he exclaimed.

Depending on the competition field, national competition contestants are tested at workstations including hands-on, simulations, bench and component testing, and a written test. More than 6,000 students participated last year in the National SkillsUSA Championships. Students from every state competed in over 100 skilled, technical, service, and health occupation competitions.

Congratulations to the LCCTC National SkillsUSA Team for their sterling perfor-mance!

The LCCTC National SkillsUSA Team

Name Competition Sending District Medal

Kyle Martin Fire Fighting Eastern Lanc. County SD Gold

Nesta Petit-Ton Dental Assisting Adult student Gold

Jasmine Yachasz Architectural Drafting Conestoga Valley SD Gold

Janae Barlow Medial Assistant Adult student Silver

Meghan Braas Nursing Assistant Columbia SD Silver

Blaike Kessler Electrical Construction Wiring Elizabethtown SD Silver

Nicole Scarle Medial Assistant Eastern Lanc. County SD Silver

Caleb Keebler HVAC & Refrigeration Warwick SD Bronze

Diamondli Lopez Medical Terminology Hempfield SD

Andrew Salvatore Plumbing Donegal SD

Amos Smucker Computerized Numerical Control Machining

Cocalico SD

LCCTC Students and BB&T Workforce Talent 2020 Grant Recipients GraduateThe Lancaster County Career & Technology Center (LCCTC), BB&T Bank, and the Lancaster County Career & Technology Foundation (LCCTF) recently cel-ebrated the graduation of adult students from its Welding Technology, BB&T Workforce Talent Basic Welding, and BB&T Workforce Talent Basic Industrial Maintenance Technology courses.

The Lancaster County Career & Technology Foundation developed the Workforce Talent 2020 Grant in 2016 in partnership with the LCCTC and the BB&T Economic Growth Fund of the Lancaster County Community Founda-tion. The grant was established to help address the growing skilled job gap in the region and to provide support, training, and skilled job certification to financially insecure county residents. The Workforce Talent Grant provides free tuition for all students admitted into the LCCTC’s 10-week Basic Welding course and the 17-week Basic Industrial Maintenance Technology course.

“It was a nice night to celebrate the successes of these students and meet those whose lives have been positively impacted because of the BB&T Workforce Talent 2020 program,” Jennifer Baker, Executive Director of the LCCTF, said

LCCTC encourages students in the BB&T Basic Welding class to continue their education into the full 12-month Welding Technology course. The instruction in the longer welding course provides more in-depth instruction into welding and, when completed, can offer more exciting career opportunities for our graduates.

Congratulations and best wishes to our most recent course graduates!

Welding Technology BB&T Basic Industrial Maintenance Technology

BB&T Basic Welding

Ted Danowski Abdulrahman Alhadithi Darrion DeLeon

Kyle Harding Lawrence Blevens Dylan Durborow

Cody Kaltreider Victor Ihenyen Kody Heare

Steven Marsh Micah Kaiser Talia Kazmierczak

William Reddinger Douglas Kefalas Guiseppe Mazzola

Ramon Santiago Ethan Martin Jordan McLain

Wyatt Shiffler Carlos Segarra-Rivera Ross Stacey

Logan Theobald Robyn Silfies Timothy Wilson

Jared Thompson Frederick Taylor

Isaiah Young

Veterinary Technology Associate Degree Program Class 3 Celebrates GraduationThe Class 3 cohort of the Lancaster County CTC’s Veterinary Technology Associate Degree Program celebrated their graduation last night at a ceremony at the Lions Club building on the grounds of the CTC’s Willow Street campus. Friends and family cheered the 13 graduates as the school officially conferred their diplomas.

Graduates Cara Mitchell and Samantha Knepp were selected as graduate speakers at the ceremony. Following the graduates, Amy Stafford, Certified Vet Tech (CVT) Emergency Nurse at Hope Veterinary Specialties, spoke to the graduates and those assembled about how the program had prepared her for her subsequent career.

Tammy Kramer, Lancaster County CTC CVT Program Director, presented the graduates with recognition awards. Mrs. Kramer and Peter Bruner, the Acting President of the Lancaster CTC’s chapter of the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (SCNAVTA) presented scholarships from SCNAVTA and Workforce Scholarships from the Lancaster County Career & Technology Foundation.

Class 3 Veterinary Technology Associate Degree Program Graduates:Joseph Ariano – (Leadership Award, $500 LCCTC Foundation Workforce

Scholarship)Tomilyn BahamHannah FlorioStacey Foster – (Outstanding Growth Award, $150 SCNAVTA Scholarship,

$500 LCCTC Foundation Workforce Scholarship)Jessica GamberAshley Groff – ($150 SCNAVTA Scholarship)Tyler HackmanKerry KilbySamantha Knepp – (Leadership Award, Academic Excellence Award, $500 LCCTC Foundation Workforce Scholarship)Cara MitchellLaura Morris – (Outstanding Growth Award)Emily Schmertz – (Student Choice Award, $500 LCCTC Foundation Workforce Scholarship)Nichole Stone – (Teacher Choice Award)

Lancaster County Magazine August Issue Features LCCTCLancaster County Magazine features an article this month focusing on the skilled labor gap in the country and the efforts of local education – including the Lancaster County Career and Technology Center – to address it. The article shows some of the remarkable ways that the Lancaster CTC serves our community and the current workforce trends. You can access the article in full by clicking the image of the magazine cover or at this web link: www.lancastercountymag.com/bridging-the-skilled-labor-gap/.

IAOM Returns to Lancaster CTC for Electrical Training OfferingIt was an all hands on deck start for the 24 mill employees who traveled to our mechatronics lab in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania in mid-August. An eight-to-one teach-er-to-student ratio meant there was plenty of instruction and someone close by to answer questions throughout the three days of electrical training.

Mill employees from across the United States and Canada returned to the Lancast-er County Career and Technology Center to participate in the electrical training offered in partnership with IAOM. Milling companies represented at the training in-

Lancaster County Career & Technology Center is an equal opportunity education institution and will not discriminate in employment, education programs, or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age or disability in its programs or activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. This policy of nondiscrimination extends to all other legally protected classifications under state and federal laws.

For information regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the rights of an individual with a disability, our obligations under ADA, or grievance procedures, contact the Business Manager and ADA Coordinator, 1730 Hans Herr Drive, PO Box 527, Willow Street, PA 17584-0527. Telephone: 717-464-7050.

For inquiries regarding other nondiscriminatory policies and programs, or for information regarding services, activities, programs and facilities that are accessible to and usable by both disabled persons and national origin minority persons who lack English language skills, contact the Supervisor of Student Services and Coordinator for Title VI, Title IX and Section 504, 1730 Hans Herr Drive, PO Box 527, Willow Street, PA 17584. Telephone: 717-208-3124.

cluded Ardent Mills, Miller Milling, Grain Craft, IBR Bakery and Siemer Milling Company. This is the third year Lancaster County CTC has provided this training.

Lab work stations were used for a variety of exercises throughout the three days as participants worked with real world com-ponents learning how to identify electrical problems. Hands-on exercises and troubleshooting followed each presentation of new material in order to improve retention. The training was designed to cover the most commonly performed electrical troubleshooting tasks mill staff face in their job every day in a flour mill. Students worked in small groups building electrical scenarios based on schematics they had just reviewed as a full class. Beginning with lock-out tag-out, each group then created the wiring exercise from scratch. A humming motor with various lights glowing on the control board meant success.

Adult Student Orientation Held July 30The Lancaster County CTC held its inaugural Adult Student Orientation on July 30 hosting all of the incoming adult students and providing important CTC and financial information. New students smiled for their ID card photos; received their access cards and parking passes; and enjoyed lunch from the Souvlaki Boys food truck.

LCCTC Faculty New School Year InserviceFor the start-of-year staff inservice on Tuesday, August 20, our faculty was joined by staff from IU13 to participate in a professional development session featuring Universal Design for Learn-ing (UDL), facilitated by PATTAN. The CTC administration is excited about implementing this program. UDL offers methods for teachers to develop flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences.