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Printing company taps into CAT student design talent

This year, when Tursack Incorporated, a Consolidated Graphics Company, distributes its annual calendar, it will not only be distributing a handy way to keep track of the days ahead but also the creative design work of the high school students featured on its pages.

Laptop initiative combines technology and learning

Computer literacy is essential to students who are preparing to enter the work force. Workers need to be adept not only in the technical skills required to operate a computer but also in the critical thinking skills necessary to compile and analyze data.

Mr. Fecik elected president of AALAS

Animal science teacher Stephen Fecik has a new title, Mr. President. Fecik, the animal science and technology teacher at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus, has been elected President of the Delaware Valley branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS).

Over 250 students from southeastern PA to compete in skills contest

Phoenixville, PA – Over 250 career and technical students from 21 schools in southeastern Pennsylvania will compete at the Skills USA District Competition on February 23 at the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Pickering Campus in Phoenixville and the Brandywine Campus in Coatesville.

CAT Brandywine students raise money for Cerebral Palsy

Coatesville, Pa - Ralph Showalter knows firsthand the difficulties that face a person with Cerebral Palsy. He has lived with it his entire life. Not content to let the condition dictate the quality of his life, Showalter has started a campaign to raise awareness and money for people living with Cerebral Palsy. He has started with the people he knows (and who know him) best – his classmates at the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus.

CAT Brandywine students kick-off weeklong series of anti-drunk driving events, February 12-15

Coatesville, PA - Shana Bivins, Liz Golden and Nicole Brugger have a message for their peers at the Center for Arts & Technology Brandywine Campus: Don’t Drink and Drive. It’s not a new message, but for these three students it’s a message worth repeating – again and again and again. It’s so important that they have organized a weeklong series of events at their school in hopes that their message will save lives.

CAT expands dual-enrollment opportunities

Nearly 40 students at the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) have been accepted to Delaware County Community College (DCCC) and will begin taking classes this fall, even though the students are still one to two years away from graduating high school. Thanks to a push by the school’s administration to create rigorous career and technical programs, eligible students are earning college credit at DCCC for their career and technical studies at the Center for Arts & Technology.

CAT Pickering inducts three new members into Student Hall of Fame

The Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Pickering Campus recently inducted four distinguished alumni into the school’s hall of fame. They are Brian Gallagher, class of 1974; Larry Smola, class of 1980; and Paul Fischer Benne, class of 1988.

Technical College High School principal named

West Grove, PA - Although Pennsylvania’s first dual-enrollment high school, the Chester County Technical College High School, won’t open until September 2008, it’s principal, Mr. Seth Schram, is already hard at work. The Chester County Intermediate Unit Board of Directors approved Mr. Schram’s hiring at its monthly meeting on June 19, 2007.

CAT Brandywine Practical Nursing Program turns 50

Coatesville, PA - The Practical Nursing program officially turns 50 on November 1, 2007. The Center for Arts & Technology Practical Nursing Program began in 1957 at the Chester County Hospital, back then, it was affiliated with the West Chester State Teachers College.

Kennett students take best of show

Coatesville, PA – The Center for Arts & Technology Brandywine Campus is proud to announce the winners of its 23rd Annual Holiday Flower Show. Students from Kennett High School swept the Best of Show category. Yamaira Romero from Kennett High School placed first in the Best of Show. The horticulture major shared best of show honors with classmates Kathleen Flores and Nancy Medina Valdez also from Kennett High School. Flores and Valdez took second and third place, respectively.

22 automotive service technology students have been accepted to DCCC

Coatesville, PA – Twenty-two students enrolled in the Automotive Service Technology program at Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus have been accepted to Delaware County Community College (DCCC). The 22 high school juniors and seniors will begin earning credit towards their associate’s degree in applied science immediately – that’s right immediately. The students are dually enrolled at the Center for Arts & Technology Brandywine Campus and DCCC.

Val Stetler Named CAT Pickering's November Student of the Month

Phoenixville, PA - The Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus is proud to announce Valerie "Val" Stetler has been named the Student of the Month for November 2007.

Introducing the Keystone Shining Star award program

West Chester, PA—Keystone Federal Credit Union and the Chester County Intermediate Unit are proud to announce the new “Shining Star” award program to recognize students who have shown a noticeable improvement in academic performance, extra-curricular involvement, and attendance throughout the school year.

Student Spotlight: Andy Plum - Wired for success!

Phoenixville - Andy Plum, a senior in the electrical occupations/telecommunications program at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus, is wired for success. A member of the National Vocational Technical Honor Society, Plum excels both in his academic and technical studies. He has proven himself in local, regional and state competitions and placed first in the state in the 2007 Pennsylvania Skills USA Competition in the residential wiring event.

Going green brings home the gold!

Phoenixville, PA – Going green earned students at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus a first place finish in the Pennsylvania State DECA Competition. Going green was the theme of the year-long public relations campaign initiated by students in the school’s DECA chapter, an international association of high school and college students studying marketing, management, entrepreneurship, finance, hospitality, sales and service.

Pickering students receive early acceptance to college

The Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus is proud to announce the following students have received early acceptance to colleges and universities as listed below:

CAT Brandywine students return victorious from competition

Seven students from the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus clipped, soldered, bandaged, wired, talked and motored their way to a first place finish at the Skills USA Pennsylvania regional competition. Another 15 students placed second; and six came in third place.

CAT Strategic Plan Draft

 

CAT students advance to national competition

Downingtown, PA – The Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) is proud to announce that three of its students were named state champions at the Pennsylvania Skills USA Competition. Timothy Rickards, Troy Cronce and Nate Ewing placed first in their events. In addition, Justin Gillander and William Martin placed third.

HOSA students provide night of respite to parents of children with Autism

Coatesville, Pa. - Students in the Health Occupations program at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus are giving up one Saturday night a month to provide respite to parents of children with autism. According to Health Occupations instructor Donna Dietrich, the students are participating in Parents' Night Out organized by the Chester County Autism Alliance as their community service project for their school’s chapter of the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA). To date students have volunteered 150 hours to the program.

Zealor advances to national competition

 

Child Care students bring home the "gold"

Congratulations to Crystal Garner and Katelyn Hallman.

Supplee and Smith elected state officers

CAT Brandywine Business Academy students Will Supplee and Frankemena Smith have been elected to the 2008-09 Pennsylvania State DECA officer team.

CAT Brandywine grad helps build Technical College High School

Jennersville, PA - It’s always a nice circumstance when life comes full circle, especially when it pertains to someone giving back to the school or community which helped shape them as a person. This is precisely the case with Mike Graham, a former student at the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus who is now helping to build the new Technical College High School in Jennersville.

Summer at the CAT's means learning, exploring and fun!

Phoenixville - Usually during the summer, most high schools are as empty as, well, a school in July. However, this was not the case at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus. The halls were filled with energetic teens and pre-teens excited about being in school during the summer. That’s right excited - thanks to an educational-based camp known as the Summer Career Academies (SCA) operated by the Chester County Intermediate Unit.