New "Skills Team" in place and readying for competition.

I promised a look at Conner's logo designs, and as promised... the unveiling. Above is the logo that he designed for the new Career Center East, and below... the new logo for the Dale Jackson Career Center. We are proud of the new slogans as well, "A new direction in Career & Technology" for CCE, and "Paving the Way" for DJCC.


The next thing that must be said is a sincere congratulations to the five students who were selected to progress from local competition to District 4 in advertising design skills. The students whose work will be featured later in another entry are: Ryan Brownhill, David Venable, Adam Williams, Amber Jackson and Amy Hillberry. All of these students are from Marcus HS except for Adam Williams, who is from Hebron HS. Good job and good luck as you go on.

Competition time is always a little bit stressful as we all prepare projects and process books and get ready for outside critique. There is something validating about it and still, sometimes outside validation comes with the stress of extra hours spent in the studio getting ready to compete and never enough hours in the day to get everything done. It is rewarding to see people working toward a goal and accomplishment of personal artistic satisfaction through self designed project ideas. The studio is abuzz with students excitedly working on painting (traditional and digital) and drawing, and all kinds of innovative ideas. While it is one of the busiest times of year (other than the very end of the semester), it is fun to see everyone undertaking interesting and unique project ideas.

There is nothing that gives me more satisfaction as a teacher than to help students answer questions about how to work more successfully with other people. Today I had a good conversation with a student about just this, and I hope I was able to help him understand a little better how to lead. This is something I consider to be a huge responsibility and a great blessing. Thank you students who think about that sort of thing often, I know that you will be great professionals due to your care for others and how you feel about your teammates.

It was a good day.

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