DIDIV-SV Partnership
Dream it. Do it. Virginia Campaign Mini-grant Recipients
Project Name: Multi-Cluster Career Fair
Person Responsible for Implementation: Estelle Sanzenbacher
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-662-3471
School Name: John Handley High School
School Division: Winchester Public Schools
Project Summary: Organizing a sixteen career cluster career fair to expose students to a wide variety of careers by inviting local businesses. This will help to make students aware of careers and be inspired by those who currently work in them, further allowing them to set future goals. All efforts will be made to have examples of careers from each cluster. In addition there will also be speakers to assist in the process of leaning interview skills and preparing for college.
Project Name: Employability in Advanced Technology/Manufacturing Tours
Person Responsible for Implementation: Rachel Weaver/Lawrence Chiles
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-332-3926
School Name: Robert E. Lee High School
School Division: Staunton City Schools
Project Summary: Select Students with interest in Engineering, Science / Software Development, as well as Graphic Design/Management will be divided into equal groups and given the ability to learn more about the selected areas. Each group will tour a respected facility in the local area where they will have the ability to see operations and ask questions of the professionals currently working in that field. Upon completion teachers will create follow up activities to help implement what was learned during the tour. This will be used to help increase awareness, knowledge and employability in each of these fields.
Project Name: Green Documentaries
Person Responsible for Implementation: Mike Kimble / John Knauf
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-289-3401
School Name: Montevideo Middle School
School Division: Rockingham County Public Schools
Project Summary: This project is designed to provide students with the work experiences associated with the production of a live television broadcast. Students will conceptualize and create content appropriate for a live broadcast using a wide range of skill sets, including pre-production planning, topic research, question analysis, developing storyboards, creating scripts, arranging for and producing interviews, analyzing lighting and audio during production and broadcast. In addition, students will develop a thorough understanding of the structure, maintenance, & design of the signal delivery system, including the pathway from camera, to video switcher, to modulator, to the classroom television set. With the focus of this project on going "green," students will also become aware of how all of us can work together and individually to reach creative solutions. The range of skills necessary for a successful outcome makes this project a powerful learning environment for its participants.
Project Name: Waynesboro School to Business Partnership Program
Person Responsible for Implementation: Kim Wood / Marsha Sensabaugh
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-946-4616
School Name: Waynesboro High School
School Division: Waynesboro Public Schools
Project Summary: The purpose of the Waynesboro Area School to Business Partnership program is to use area business resources to expose high school students to career pathways and options that they may have not previously considered, particularly those in skilled trades. Upon returning to Waynesboro High School students will discuss in groups with career coaches possible educational pathways to begin a career in their field of interest. There will also be individual career coaching sessions where students can craft a personalized academic and career plan just for them.
Project Name: Work Readiness in Packaging Manufacturing
Person Responsible for Implementation: Andy Chase
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-245-5185, Email: [email protected]
School Name: Wilson Middle School
School Division: Augusta County
Project Summary: This project, coupled with the industry partnership, will impact and enhance the student curriculum by allowing the students not only to, emulate the packaging industry, but to meet and speak with people involved in the packaging industry and to see first hand the process, equipment and personnel utilized in creating a packaging products from start to finish. Environmentally, students will learn that green manufacturing focuses on limiting the impact on the environment through smart management of materials and processes. That green manufacturing can lead to substantial cost savings to the company through reduced waste product and recycling. This activity will also greatly impact and enhance the essential competencies, as well as some of the optional competencies, that each student is to take away from this course.
Project Name: Training for Trades
Person Responsible for Implementation: Joyce Broughman
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-863-2923; Email: [email protected]
School Name: Jackson River Technical Center, Floyd S. Kay Technical Center, Botetourt Technical Education Center, Parry McCluer High School, Mertz Technical Center
School Division: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Botetourt, Covington, Buena Vista
Project Summary: High school juniors and seniors will visit four selected programs of study at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College : Forest Management Technology; Welding Technology; Advanced Manufacturing and Packaging Technology; and Wind Turbine Service Technology. The trip will be designed so students can see the ties between their high school programs and the
knowledge/skills taught in the DSLCC programs; realize they can expand their skills at the
post-secondary level for better jobs; and visualize themselves as college students attending DSLCC after graduating from high school. Focus will be placed on disseminating detailed information about hands-on training programs that are short in length (one year or less) and informing students about the job possibilities for graduates in each respective specialty.
Project Name: Engineering Technology Manufacturing Exploration
Person Responsible for Implementation: Joyce Broughman
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-863-2923, Email: [email protected]
School Name: Parry McCluer High School
School Division: Buena Vista City Public Schools
Project Summary: High school students in the Engineering Technology Program at Parry McCluer High School will visit one of the area’s manufacturing/technology employers and the Skills Lab for the Advanced Manufacturing and Wind Turbine Service Technology programs on the Campus of Dabney S. Lancaster Community College. Students will then participate in a presentation from an engineer, learning additional information on careers and job opportunities in that field. This will allow the students to make the connection between what they are learning in High School, what they will learn through a program at DSLCC and into the workplace. Students will also be allowed the chance to ask questions during and after the presentation to learn more about job opportunities and salary ranges for family supporting jobs in the area.
Project Name: First Robotics Competition
Person Responsible for Implementation: Ed Novak
Contact Information: Phone Number: (540) 955-6130; Email: [email protected]
School Name: Clarke County High School
School Division: Clarke County Public Schools
Project Summary: Seventeen students from the Energy and Power class and ten with general interest in robotics will compete in the third season of the First Robotics Competition. The competition will present a challenge where the students accompanied by an engineering mentor will have to create a robot that meets the required challenge in a six week time period. Students will learn what engineers and production workers do on the job as well as be exposed to discussions in the methodology of problem solving. A large component of the project will be cooperation and teamwork even with competitors which builds a much larger team network.
Project Name: Certifications for Certified Nursing Aide
Person Responsible for Implementation: Sharon Falls
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-943-5511
School Name: Valley Vocational Technical Center
School Division: Augusta County Public Schools
Project Summary: Valley Vocational Technical Center would like to start in-facility testing for Certified Nursing Aide. The school will provide the space, certain materials, and supervision in-kind to meet National Nurse Aide Assessment Program Skills Evaluation under the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services. When the internal pilot program is deemed successful, Valley Tech would like to become the Regional Testing Center and would be the only regional testing center in the Shenandoah Valley.
Project Name: Career Awareness Student, Teacher and Counselor Business Tours
Person Responsible for Implementation: Ken Jones
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-665-0973; Emai: [email protected]
School Division: Winchester and Frederick County
Project Summary: Tours will be conducted and are designed to take approximately 450 students and 100 teachers and counselors on tours of businesses. The tours allow student to learn what types of good careers are available to them in local businesses/industries and the types of salaries paid. This will help student to make career choices and choose careers in the area. The tours will also benefit teachers, counselors and administrators by allowing them to know the types of good careers available to their students and the educational requirements of these careers. This will allow them to better relate subjects they are teaching to real jobs and to enhance students in choosing career pathways.
Project Name: Green Construction Integration into Building Trades Programs
Person Responsible for Implementation: Bill Troiano / Randy White
Contact Information: Phone Number: (540) 347-6100; Email : [email protected] / [email protected]
School Name: Fauquier High School
School Division: Fauquier County Public Schools
Project Summary: The proposal will be used to purchase five interactive learning modules titled Introduction to Green Construction to be worked into the High Schools trades programs. The areas of study include blueprint reading, estimation, green construction, HVAC, and weatherization. Students will make use of videos with nontraditional role models allowing the teacher to become a facilitator of self-directed, hands on instruction. If students have questions it is easy to repeat sections with little to no impact on the rest of the class. Students will also work on trainers to learn recognized green construction practices and then work to translate them into the class project to build a modular house. This new style of learning should appeal to younger learners through a stimulating and engaging self-directed style.
Project Name: Alternative Energy Trainers
Person Responsible for Implementation: Stephen C. Straight
Contact Information: Phone Number: 540-662-3889 Ext: 88178
School Name: James Wood High School, Millbrook High School, Sherando High School, Dowell J. Howard Technical Center, Admiral Richard E Byrd Middle School, Frederick County Middle School, James Wood Middle School, R.E. Aylor Middle School.
School Division: Frederick County Public Schools
Project Summary: The proposal will be used to update and purchase new items to raise students, parents, teachers, and administrator awareness of the variety and feasibility of using alternative energy to produce electricity. The four middle schools will use miniature solar panels, wind turbines, and fuel cell lab activities to introduce the concepts of renewable energy. The high schools engineering and advanced engineering students will have the opportunity to get hands on experience with large scale alternative energy modules. While the technical center will present the opportunity to set up an array of solar panels, view, calculate, and graph inputs and outputs from various energy generation devices. This will help the students at the technical center to study how solar panels are installed on a real home and how they might be strung in a series to produce usable electricity.
