We appreciate your continued support of career and technical education in Forsyth County. As we officially transition into Summer, we wanted to thank our community partners for their ongoing involvement. While things did look different this year, our teachers did a phenomenal job of creating relevant CTAE experiences for their students. We appreciate your participation in many of our virtual events, including advisory councils, our career fair, virtual guest speaking, and many other ways you all stepped up to support our students!
Important! We are beginning to enter our next phase of long-range planning for career and technical education with UGA's Carl Vinson Institute. As part of this process, we need all parents and business/industry to complete the survey linked on the QR code above or using the link below! This feedback will be critical to our summer listening sessions with our stakeholders and Fall planning meetings. We will send more information later in the summer around our meeting schedule for 2021-22, but it will be another busy year!
For more information about career and technical education in Forsyth County, visit www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/ctae or email vlowe@forsyth.k12.ga.us.
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General Information and Opportunities to Get Involved |
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By becoming a Career Development Partner with Forsyth County Schools, your organization allows students to go beyond the classroom and into the community to consider different career fields, learn basic workplace behavior, and develop specific skills within an industry. Through these experiences, students can apply what they are learning in the classroom as they prepare to transition into post-secondary education and training. Click here for more information: https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/Page/53498
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Congratulations! Forsyth County is proud to announce that several career pathways were recently recognized for becoming industry certified. When a program becomes industry certified, it receives a "stamp of excellence," which represents the apex of program quality. Only those programs that have successfully undergone rigorous reviews by leaders from business and industry are recognized with this distinction. For the 2021-22 school year, eleven programs have applied through the Georgia Department of Education to also go through this process!
If you are interested in supporting our programs as they go through industry certification, please email ctae@forsyth.k12.ga.us.
Programs receiving certification or re-certification this year included:
A/V, Technology, & Film - Certified by the Media Education Foundation of Georgia:
Forsyth Central HS & Lambert HS
Culinary Arts - Certified by the American Culinary Federation:
Lambert HS, South Forsyth HS, & West Forsyth HS
Healthcare Science - Certified by HomeTown Health
Alliance Academy for Innovation
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Volunteers Needed for National FBLA Competition
Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) is the largest career student business organization in the world. FBLA inspires and prepares students to become community-minded business leaders in a global society through relevant career preparation and leadership experiences. From Georgia FBLA:
With a virtual event comes the exciting opportunity for remote judging of the competitive events! The quality of the competitive events program is based largely in part on the quality of those reviewing the students and the expertise they bring to the table. As one of our valued Professional Division members, we want to offer you the opportunity to serve as a judge and aid in our members’ growth.
Judging is a great professional opportunity that allows you to see tomorrow’s future business leaders in action, network with the largest career student business organization in the world, and add volunteer work to your resume. This year, judging interactions with the competitors will be completed using a virtual meeting platform and a digital rating system.
We hope you will support our incredible young leaders by serving as a judge; their success depends on you. The Judge Registration Form is open! If any of your friends, family, or colleagues would be interested in judging, please pass this message along to them.
For more information about the 2021 NLC, or questions regarding the judging process this year, please visit our event site and Judging FAQ’s. We appreciate your support and look forward to having you and your network be a part of our 2021 NLC!
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Forsyth County marketing pathway students are seeking local business and industry involvement next year to provide valuable experiences for our programs. Our students are able to assist your organization with:
- Conducting marketing research, analyze the data collected, and make recommendations for the businesses based on the results of the study.
- Developing promotional plans which include traditional media campaigns as well as social media campaigns.
- Assisting in implementing the promotional plans that they design for the businesses.
If you are interested in working with any of our eight high schools, please reach out to ctae@forsyth.k12.ga.us!
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Russ Davison - South Forsyth MS
Russ Davisson is retiring this year after serving 25 years in Forsyth County. Russ began teaching engineering shortly after entering education and is where he’s been for the last 23 years. He has served as the TSA advisor, directed the television broadcast news crew for many years, been nominated for Teacher of the Year, and served as department chair In retirement, Russ plans to pursue his many interests in outdoor activities including fishing, sporting clays, kayaking, motorcycling, and traveling to see more of his family and friends.
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Jeff Olney - Denmark HS
Jeff Olney is retiring this year after 25 years in education. He began his career as a business and computer science teacher before moving into engineering and manufacturing. While at South Forsyth HS, he served as an advisor for TSA where his electric car team had back to back TSA State Championships. He has also had several students go on and win National Championships in TSA. In 2017-2018 he was awarded the “Tommy Pitchford Inspirational Award” for high school engineering teachers in the state of Georgia.
In 2018, Jeff helped open Denmark HS as the CTAE Department Chair and lead engineering teacher. While at Denmark HS, he served on the Georgia Engineering Technology Education Association (GETEA) Board as President, started a new TSA Chapter and launched electric car competitions and a VEX robotics team. Several of his students went on to win TSA State Championships.
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Jack Snook - North Forsyth HS
Jack Snook ("Gunny") served twenty years active duty in the Marine Corps. He is native to New Jersey, but he left at 18 to join the USMC. He spent most as an infantryman where he deployed to Beirut Lebanon and Kuwait during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He also served as Commander of Marine Embassy Guards in Vienna, Austria and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He served at the Pentagon with the Military Security Force for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Snook retired from the Marine Corps and chartered a new Junior ROTC program in North Georgia. Since that time, he has helped over 300 students enter the United States Military, including eight Naval Academy appointments, one West Point appointment, one Merchant Marine Academy appointment, and one US Air Force Academy appointment. His ROTC program has also been a Naval Honor School for 15 consecutive years.
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Carmen Linn - Piney Grove MS |
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Carmen Linn, business and computer science teacher at Piney Grove MS, has been teaching for 18 years. While at Piney Grove MS, she has been a lead for her department, on the school's SEL committee, Cross-Country coach, as well as FBLA adviser. During her time as FBLA adviser, she has mentored several state winners and a national winner along with growing the chapter to be the 3rd largest chapter in the state. In her spare time, she can be found running on the Big Creek Greenway, tutoring students in math, and volunteering with Meals by Grace with her husband and two children. Carmen will be going on her next adventure to open Hendricks MS next year to teach Business and Computer Science, start their FBLA chapter, and coach the Cross-Country team.
"Ms. Linn is a creative and innovative teacher who has brought life to our Business Education program. She is always willing to try new strategies and never fails to continue her own learning. Her work building our FBLA Chapter has provided students with many opportunities to engage in learning new skills that they will carry with them into their future academic and professional endeavors."
-Pam Pajerski, Principal
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Jamie Wilbanks - West Forsyth HS |
Jamie Wilbanks is going into her fourth year teaching Sports & Entertainment Marketing at West Forsyth HS. She is one of the DECA Advisors, the NTHS Advisor, and the CTAE Department Chair. Prior to coming to West Forsyth, she taught Pre-K for five years and worked as a Business Development Manager and Marketing Coordinator. Her favorite part of teaching high school is not only the relationships you build with your students, but the excitement when they can correlate our curriculum with the real world. She is also quite passionate about the success of West Forsyth HS DECA!
"Jamie is so organized and creative. She had been a great addition to West Forsyth Career Tech!"
-Karl Mercer, Principal
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Student Internship Spotlights |
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Shria Sharath - Forsyth Central HS
Psychiatric Professionals of Georgia
Shria Sharath, a Forsyth Central HS STEM recent graduate, has completed the Biotechnology Pathway. Through her mentorship this year, she applied research knowledge gleaned from her pathway classes as well as shadowing doctors and managers at her mentorship. As an extern at Psychiatric Professionals of Georgia, Shria says “this experience was really new to me and showed me behind the scenes of how a medical facility works. I want to be in the medical field when I am older, and this mentorship helped me fine tune my research skills as well as learn what all goes into maintaining the facility. I now see that there is so much more to a medical facility than just treating a patient. There is research, teamwork and lots of effort put into making materials for the doctors, billing department, etc. It’s been really eye opening!”
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Calvin Njuguna - North Forsyth HS
Jimenez Gastroenterology Center
Calvin Njuguna, a graduate who just finished the Sports Medicine Pathway at North Forsyth HS, maintained a 4.17 GPA and worked at Chipotle, as a certified Grassroots soccer referee, and completed an internship with Dr. Arnaldo Jimenez at Jimenez Gastroenterology Center. Calvin was also an officer for HOSA, is a Raider Commander, a member of Student Council, a Science Ambassador, and a member of Family Promise. He received various awards while in high school such as Science Student of the Month and North Forsyth HS WBL Student of the Year. He is an AP Scholar with Honors and a member of both the National Honor Society and the National Technical Honor Society. Calvin plans to enter Georgia Tech this fall and study to receive a bachelor's degree in Biology. He then plans to attend either NYU or University of Chicago for medical school.
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For more information on the Internship or Mentorship Programs, visit these links:
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Teaching as a Profession
Lambert HS
Lambert HS's second-year Teaching as a Profession students created lesson plans centered around positive affirmations and being kind. Students then taught the lesson to classes at Sharon ES.
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Environmental Agriculture
North Forsyth HS
North Forsyth HS is celebrating a FFA State Winner in the Agricultural Education Proficiency, 5th place Junior Floriculture team in the state level Floriculture CDE, 2 State FFA Degree Recipients with over 300 hours in their SAE projects!
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Marketing
South Forsyth HS
Their school-based enterprise, The Bird Cage, received gold re-certification status this year!
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Teaching as a Profession
South Forsyth HS
South Forsyth HS is celebrating a 100% EOPA Pass Rate and 100% Pathway Completion for the 2020-2021 school year. Students participated in Mock Interviews and Dress for Success days with excellence and poise. They also completed internships at a SPES, DCES, SFMS, and SFHS with their 3rd level course.
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DECA
Lambert HS
Lambert HS is celebrating that 50 students placed at the State Leadership Conference, including 5 state champions. They were also recognized as the 3rd largest chapter in the State.
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Lambert DECA would also like to recognize Parth Gandhi. He served as the Georgia DECA Vice President of Career Development for 2020-21 and represented Forsyth County with pride! He was awarded the Georgia DECA Foundation Scholarship at State and the National Otis Spunkmeyer Scholarship at ICDC! He is also competing in ICDC finals with a top 10 test score in the world! Congratulations, Parth! |
HOSA
Lambert HS
Lambert HS Healthcare Science Pathways were recently awarded:
- Largest Georgia HOSA Chapter
- 2nd largest HOSA Chapter in the World
- Two students named to state HOSA board 30+ members competing in ILC June 2021
- HOSA Advisor of the Year (Kim Bell)
- Red Cross Georgia 1st Runner Up Georgia Chapter of the Year
- Red Cross Student Scholarship Awarded
They also participated in projects that served lunch to all Central EMS/Forsyth County Fire Stations, $1000 Be the Match (HOSA Service Project) donation, 50 units of blood collected through sponsored Red Cross drives, cards/letters collected for healthcare workers, PPE donated for healthcare workers, book drive, toiletry drive, smile drive, and a clothing drive!
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SkillsUSA
Forsyth Central HS
FCHS SkillsUSA is going to the SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference. The purpose of this activity was to display the job specific skills learned by students in the Audio Visual Technology, Automotive Technology and Cosmetology programs through the creation and broadcasting of showcase videos. The Audio Visual Technology, Automotive Technology, and Cosmetology programs collaborated to produce program specific videos to promote our programs in hopes to gain interest from future students. The links below our the finished product of each video! Please help us congratulate our students!
AV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTYe4S7XtuI
Auto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5Jf_t6cKY
Cosmo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAlEeK0oG4A
A/V:
Sports Highlight Reel - 1st place (State Only Contest)
Chapter Recruitment Video Production - 2nd place
Finalist:
SkillsUSA Georgia Commercial
Music Video
Broadcast News Production
Digital Cinema Production
Automotive:
Automotive Service Technology - 1st place (Advance to SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference)
Automotive Electronics/Ignition - 2nd
Finalist:
Automotive Brakes
Job Interview
Cosmetology:
Esthetics - 1st place (Advance to SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference)
Hair Design Display - 1st place (State Only Contest)
Cosmetology - 2nd place
Finalist:
Esthetics Design Display
Job Skill Demonstration A
Nail Care
Job Skill Demonstration Open
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Healthcare Science
North Forsyth HS
North Forsyth HS HOSA Advisors, members, and officers presented the café staff with an embroidered NFHS Healthcare scrubs top for their outstanding commitment and perseverance throughout this challenging year!
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MCJROTC
North Forsyth HS
On Friday May 7th, 2021, the MCJROTC cadets of North Forsyth High School conducted their annual Change of Command and Award Ceremony. There were many families and friends as well as attendees from veterans and civic organizations who showed out to support this very special event. Among the special guests were, The Military Officers Association of America, Military Order of the Purple Heart (Chapter 576), VFW Post 9143, The Sons of The American Revolution, and the American Legion Post 307 to name a few.
A change of command is a military tradition that represents a formal transfer of authority and responsibility for a unit from one commanding officer to another. The passing of colors, or standards from an outgoing commander to an incoming one ensures that the unit and its Cadets is never without official leadership, a continuation of trust, and signifies an allegiance of cadets to their unit's commander.
Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Clark relinquished command as the Battalion Commander and taking her place is Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Coralei Orth. The battalion's new cadet Executive Officer is Cadet Major Gillian Garner. The new Battalion cadet Sergent Major is Cadet Sergeant Major Gavin Wilson.
The evening was extra significant and special because Gunnery Sergeant Jack Snook who, after 45 combined years in uniform, was retiring. He has been the backbone of North Forsyth's MCJROTC program for the past 25 years and he has undoubtedly touched the lives of many. His presence will certainly be missed!
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Teaching as a Profession
Denmark HS
Denmark's Teaching as a Profession Pathway and FCCLA collected over 100 chapter books and created homemade bookmarks to go in each book delivered. Students from the upper-level teaching class went to DeSana MS to deliver and present the books in April to eager 6th graders who received them with BIG smiles! At their April FCCLA Chapter Meeting, Mrs. Swinegier (a 6th-grade teacher) came as a guest speaker to discuss the impact that the book drive had on her students. DeSana MS is requesting that we make our "Books of Love" book drive an annual event.
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Computer Science
Forsyth Central HS
Forsyth Central HS won 1st Place for a project at the Forsyth County Tech Fair. A game was created by Jonathan Hardy and Taha Tas called Pool. Pool is a multiplayer puzzle game that requires 2 players on different computers. This game is made to play with others from home while Covid has us separated. The game plays by having the players separated into 2 different rooms, where one room has a chest and another room has a door. The door only unlocks when the player unlocks the chest.
Students in the Computer Science Pathway at Forsyth Central HS are also building custom computers for use in the classroom and for other students.
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FCCLA
West Forsyth HS
Congratulations to West Forsyth HS FCCLA State Winners who are headed to Nationals this summer:
- Lauren Trombino and Cindy Guo, Interpersonal Communication Level 3
- Alyssa Morris and Kennedy Gentry, Digital Stories for Change
- Presley Schneider and Elizabeth Tjong, Sports Nutrition Level 2
We are very proud of these young ladies and their hard work to compete this year!
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Cybersecurity
Alliance Academy for Innovation
Alliance Academy for Innovation Cybersecurity Team, Egg Heads, had an amazing year! While competing in CyberPatriot at the Platinum level, they finished 1st in the state of Georgia and 66th in the Nation (out of 917 teams). This team also competed in the top Gold Level of the National Cyber League finishing 26th out of 922 teams in the Nation! We are so proud of these young men!
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Culinary Arts
Denmark HS
The Culinary Arts pathway at Denmark HS has provided over 200 complete meals to teachers this year as part of the culinary luncheon program.
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DECA
South Forsyth HS
Enjoy photos below of the South Forsyth HS Prom Fashion Show 2021!
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Computer Science
Denmark HS
Dale Kolosna, instructor, used Code.org and Adafruit Circuit Playground to lead students in understanding and implementing physical computing. Students created real-world, interactive projects, including glove-controlled User Interaction, a working piano made from paperclips, and a UFO Simulator.
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Culinary Arts
Lambert HS
Students at Lambert HS recently enjoyed Garden Day 2021!
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Automotive Technology
Forsyth Central HS
Forsyth Central HS is celebrating Keeley Whitmer being recognized as March's Babcox Publishing National Student of the Month!
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Nutrition and Food Science
Lambert HS
Nutrition and Food Science students had a great time making jolly rancher roses and rock candy while learning about different types of sugars for our carb unit. FCCLA closed out a great yet challenging year with our end of the year banquet. They installed their 2021-22 FCCLA officers and celebrated our accomplishments of the year! One highlight was our community service event where we decorated the sidewalks for Valentines Day for the residents at Celebration Village senior home!
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Advanced Accounting
South Forsyth HS
Camille Argarin, Advanced Accounting Pathway Completer and recent graduate, was selected to receive a 2021-22 AICPA Foundation High School Scholarship for Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 based on her achievements and interest in accounting and finance professions. She has maintained an internship with a local financial services company and will attend the University of Georgia in the Fall! Congratulations!
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Sports Marketing / DECA
West Forsyth HS
Sports marketing students completed a "My Cause My Cleats" campaign showcasing their cause marketing knowledge. They learned about the organization itself and the impact it has on the charitable foundations through the NFL. Mrs. Wilbanks students designed their shoes and created a 3D design as well as determined a charity that they have a connection with. It was a lot of fun for the students to get hands on and creative!!
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FCCLA
West Forsyth HS
FCCLA at West Forsyth HS is celebrating new region and state officer positions for next year who will represent Forsyth County CTAE!
Lauren Trombino (Top): State FCCLA Vice President of Community Service
Cindy Guo (Bottom): Region 2 Officer for 2021-2022 School Year
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