Partnerships for aerospace studies growing
Partnerships are forming across Oklahoma to expand aerospace studies.
Under the guidance of the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics and with the support of Oklahoma CareerTech, schools are working with government agencies and private companies to prepare students for aerospace careers, writes Paula Kedy, ODAA statewide manager of aerospace STEM education. Her column was recently published in the Tulsa World.
Kedy gives examples of several schools offering programs, including schools in Wyandotte, Tulsa, Putnam City and Ada.
Read more on the Tulsa World website, and learn more about CareerTech’s aerospace and aviation programs on the Oklahoma CareerTech website.
HOSA students expand opportunities at OU Healthcare Career Exploration Day
Two Oklahoma HOSA students walked away from OU Health’s second annual Healthcare Career Exploration Day with $5,000 scholarships.
Amelia Miller and Skielah Hamby, both Indian Capital Technology Center students, were among almost 350 high school students to attend the event in November. Each received a $5,000 scholarship to study at the University of Oklahoma or one of the seven OU Health Sciences Center colleges.
Hamby, who is planning a career as a traveling nurse, said Healthcare Career Exploration Day helped her in other ways as well.
“Just listening to all (the health care professionals) talk about their careers and how they got there and what they needed to do helped me understand things a little bit more,” she said.
OU Health is one of HOSA’s premier sponsors, said Amy Warner, HOSA state adviser at the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education. HOSA is one of seven CareerTech student organizations; it is affiliated with health science education.
Read more on the Oklahoma CareerTech website.
ODCTE employees receive awards
Oklahoma CareerTech employees received Spotlight Awards and Rising Star awards during the agency’s fall staff meeting.
Receiving awards were Bryan Richter, graphic designer in the Communications and Marketing division; Ronda Hill, Kylie Moulton, Kyla Hensley and Jake Phillips, program specialists in the Business, Marketing and Information Technology division; and Brandy Elliott, data quality coordinator in the Information Management division.
Read more about the employees and their exceptional work on the Oklahoma CareerTech website.
Great Plains adds AI to cybersecurity class
Great Plains Technology Center is broadening its cybersecurity class to include artificial intelligence.
The expansion was recently highlighted in an article in The Lawton Constitution.
Instructor Aaron Nettles told the newspaper that students will learn how to secure AI.
“It’s going to give them a real world application of how that works,” he told the newspaper.
The class prepares students for jobs as cybersecurity analysts, so adding AI into the subjects will help them be ready for their future careers, he explained.
Great Plains bought the AI server for the program with a Carl Perkins grant it received, the newspaper reported.
Read more on The Lawton Constitution’s website. For more information about Carl Perkins grants, visit Oklahoma CareerTech’s Perkins Administration webpage.
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