MVCTC Students Take the Lead

11/03/2017

Columbus, Ohio -   Miami Valley Career Technology Center (MVCTC) SkillsUSA students attended the Fall Leadership Conference on Monday, October 30 and Tuesday, October 31, in Columbus.

 

MVCTC SkillsUSA Advisor, Jack Spitler shared, “We were well represented with one of the strongest officer candidate teams I’ve had the privilege to work with.”

 

Three MVCTC students came home with Regional Officer Positions for the 2017-2018 school year.  

  • Summer Staiger (Graphic Commercial Art/Valley View) was elected as Parliamentarian.
  • Audra Kirchhofer, (Dental Assisting/New Lebanon) Treasurer
  • Carly Newman, (Dental Assisting/Milton-Union), Vice President.

 

Also representing the MVCTC Officer Team and running for positions were: Kaylee Thompson (Dental Assisting/Vandalia), Elizabeth Newton (Graphic Commercial Art/Miamisburg), Collin Williams (Graphic Commercial Art/Vandalia), and Charlotte Kozlowski (Graphic Commercial Art/ Huber Heights).  Spitler expressed his pride by sharing, “All candidates did very well and represented our school in the best of light. All in all, I count this as our most successful outing in my 12 years as an advisor.”

 

SkillsUSA empowers its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. SkillsUSA improves the quality of our nation’s future skilled workforce through the development of Framework skills that include personal, workplace and technical skills grounded in academics.

SkillsUSA serves more than 335,000 students and instructors annually. This includes 19,500 instructors who join as professional members. Including alumni, SkillsUSA membership totals over 395,000. SkillsUSA has served more than 12.5 million annual members cumulatively since 1965. Learn more at www.skillsusa.org.

 

What started almost 50 years ago as the Montgomery County Joint Vocational School (JVS) has transformed into the Miami Valley Career Technology Center (MVCTC). While the name has changed, the mission remains the same. MVCTC is dedicated to providing training for in-demand jobs and college-readiness skills for high school and adult students across Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, and Warren Counties.

 

For more information about MVCTC, visit www.mvctc.com or follow MVCTC on Facebook (Facebook.com/MVCTC) or Twitter (Twitter.com/MVCTC).

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  • Photo 1 – Summer Staiger (MVCTC Graphic Commercial Art/Valley View) was elected as SkillsUSA Regional Parliamentarian.
  • Photo 2 - Audra Kirchhofer, (MVCTC Dental Assisting/New Lebanon) was elected as SkillsUSA Regional Treasurer
  • Photo 3 Carly Newman, (MVCTC Dental Assisting/Milton-Union), was elected as SkillsUSA Regional Vice President.