Career Fair 2024
Every student at the Career Center had the opportunity to meet and network with over 40 businesses at the annual Career Fair held on Thursday, March 21. Students were able to learn more about a variety of careers and businesses that are available to them in the surrounding area. We can't say thank you enough to the businesses that participated! Please help us thank and support those businesses!
Participating Businesses:
Lancaster County BeeKeepers
Home Depot
Hoopaugh Grading Company LLC
LCI
State Utility Contractors
CERRA
Little Fox
Crawford Funeral Home
Humphries Homes
TD Bank
Lancaster County EMS
Lifeguard Ambulance Service
Mid-Carolina AHEC
MUSC Health Lancaster
MUSC Outpatient Pharmacy
Stover Legacy Foundation
MEDUCare 3
Carowinds
Food Lion
Laurel Haven Estate
First Steps
Great Clips
Sport Clips
Comporium
Nutramax
Lancaster City Police Department
Lancaster County Fire Service
Lancaster County Sheriff's Office
SC Department of Corrections
Chief Buildings
Engine Power Source
Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc.
Oceana Gold
Gerber Collision
National Guard
SCWorks
York Technical College
Subbie's
We are pleased to announce our two new assistant principals beginning in the 2024-2025 school year! Help us congratulate Mrs. Benja Jenkins and Mr. Mark Bonda! Mrs. Jenkins has been at the Career Center since 1999 and Mr. Bonda will be joining us from Indian Land High School. Welcome to the Phoenix Family!
We are happy to announce there was a tie for Teacher of the Year! Congratulations to LCSD Career Center's Teacher of the Year, Mr. Lynn Robertson. This is Mr. Robertson's 19th year teaching our welding program! He has grown that program to what it is today, one of the most popular and successful pathways we offer! We are glad to have him as part of the Phoenix Family!
Congratulations to LCSD Career Center's Teacher of the Year, Chef Dominic Hawkes! This is Chef Hawke's fourth year teaching our culinary arts program. He has taken that program to new heights and we are glad to have him as part of the Phoenix Family!
Congratulations to LCSD Career Center's Beginning Teacher of the Year, Mr. Adam Yarborough! This is Mr. Yarborough's first year teaching our automotive collision program. He is doing an outstanding job and we are glad to have him as part of the Phoenix Family!
Mrs. Cooper's Family and Consumer Science 1 class will be making Ice Cream Cozies this semester. These would be a great addition for those bowl cozies we made last year. They are reversible and machine washable. They are $7 each.
Please contact Mrs. Cooper at angela.cooper@lcsd.k12.sc.us or call the Career Center at 803-285-7404 to speak with her!
Fun fact...all of the teacher of the year awards for the district are made right here at the Career Center! Keep a look out for these in the near future as schools begin to recognize and honor their teacher of the year recipients!
Grill update....it is finished!!!
Automotive Collision students washing the grill and getting it ready for customer pick up!
This week, Mrs. Lail the LCSD Career Center Work Based Learning Coordinator came to visit Mrs. Wheeler's Accounting 2 students. She spoke with the students about Essential Jobs Resources, Research Skills and securing their future and the importance of Resume writing. The Students enjoyed their two day sessions.
SGT. Carl Long of the National Guard came to visit Mrs. Wheeler's Advanced Personal Finance and Accounting classes last week. The students were engaged in what we would call "building for success". The students discussed budgets and growing money opportunities. The students had hands-on demonstrations of success and failures in building blocks. The key concept of understanding for the students were despite obstacles invest in yourself and learn to invest in many opportunities. The students truly enjoyed the inspiration from SGT. Long.
Attention!!!
The cosmetology salon is open for walk-in clients!
Students have had a great time at the HOSA Conference! The HOSA bowl team placed in the top five. Gracie Patterson placed 2nd in her event- Speaking Skills. Sydnee Rollings was named Outstanding HOSA Member of LCSD Career Center. We are very proud of these students! Please help us congratulate them!
Health Science students enjoying the HOSA State Leadership Conference!
Check out the green light ups for World Kidney Day at opening sessions!
#gogreenforgavin
Also pictured are Tori Robinson and Olivia Crockett competing in the Health Career Display. Ja'Laya Cunningham is seen speaking with one of the vendors at the college/career fair
For 6 weeks this semester, Child Development students get hands on experience learning about children and their development at Southside Early Headstart. They create their own lessons based on the South Carolina Early Learning Standards. Through guidance from their Career Center instructor as well as their field experience teacher they implement the lesson or activity with the class they are assigned. Students at both schools thoroughly enjoy working with one another.
Every business that will be participating in the Career Center Career Fair next week will receive one of these pencil holders made by the Machine Tool program students.
Culinary Arts Level 2 students had a MRE Cook-Off on Tuesday March 12!
They had to work within the following guidelines set by Chef Hawkes. Each team received a standard military MRE pack and had the task of creating a three course meal. They were allowed to add up to two ingredients per course and they could use any equipment in the kitchen. They came up with very inventive items, moving away from just reheating the food to creating entirely different dishes from ice cream to nachos to candy to pies.
It was a lot of fun and blew away our military judge!
Health Science students are attending the HOSA State Leadership Conference this week in North Charleston!
One of the toolboxes built by our carpentry students! Look at the attention to detail.
As some of you may or may not know there was a small fire at the Career Center back in November. It was after school so no one was there. It happened in the Mechatronics shop. It has been a process to get everything cleaned out, repaired, and re-organized. The Level 4 students were able to play a role in the process. They worked to organize the equipment and make sure everything works correctly. Great job guys! The shop looks fantastic!
"Our ProStart Culinary team battled hard at the competition. We finished a little late, so we didn't place this year, but I am immensely proud of the hours of menu development, costing and writing they performed. They produced a complex menu and strove high and they should be very proud of themselves." ~Chef Hawkes
