Oklahoma CareerTech adds tech center campus in Shawnee
Oklahoma CareerTech’s technology center campuses increased by one Thursday, when the State Board of Career and Technology Education approved a new campus for Gordon Cooper Technology Center.
GCTC is expanding its aviation maintenance technology program and adding a fifth instructor, which allows the aviation maintenance site to be considered a full campus by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education. Oklahoma CareerTech now has 63 technology center campuses.
The new instructor will teach in the high school program, allowing GCTC to add a second high school class, Superintendent Julie McCormick told the board. Forty-six high school students are enrolled, in addition to adult students, she said.
“The last two years, we’ve turned away some eligible applicants because of meeting capacity with only a single high school instructor so we feel the need to expand and grow,” she said.
Read more on the Oklahoma CareerTech website.
Oklahoma BPA advisers honored nationally
Two Oklahoma Business Professionals of America advisers were honored at the BPA National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Amy McClure, the adviser from Northwest Technology Center’s Fairview campus was named Advisor of the Year, and Stephanie Greenlee, the adviser from Prague High School, was named Emerging Advisor of the Year.
Oklahoma BPA also brought home 30 national championships, 21 national runners-up, 21 third place finishers and 134 top 10 finalists. Oklahoma BPA also won the Postsecondary Professional Cup.
Read more on the Oklahoma CareerTech website.
CareerTech Foundation plans golf tourney
The Oklahoma CareerTech Foundation 2025 Golf Tournament will be Aug. 3 at South Lakes Golf Course in Jenks.
The event will begin with team check-in at 7 a.m. and end with a lunch at noon. Tee time is at 8 a.m.
The cost is $100 per individual or $400 per team. Proceeds support CareerTech student organizations and scholarships.
Sponsorships are also available and range from $100 hole sponsors to $2,500 tournament sponsors, which includes entry for 12 individuals.
For more information, contact Gina Hubbard at 405-743-5167 or gina.hubbard@careertech.ok.gov.
Moore Norman Tech students design space debris device
Students at Moore Norman Technology Center have designed a device to capture micro debris particles in space.
They started with a paper design, which evolved into a functional device that their engineering instructor, Dustin Bennett, tested in a zero-gravity environment, according to a KOCO News story.
Bennett conducted the test in a modified airplane.
"The biggest benefit is for our students to be able to get that engagement, to be able to let them see that this is a real-world problem that needs to be solved, something that's only going to get worse, because as we send more things up, there's going to be more things that are there to collide,” he told the news channel.
Read more and see a video on the KOCO News website.
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