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R O P ' s
O n l i n e N e w s l e t t e r -
Net - Volume 1 - Issue 5 -
January / March 2008
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Career
success starts here!
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ROP Auto Tech Students from Loara High
Capture
First Place in
OCADA Troubleshooting Contest.
Team Will
Compete in New York Nationals
Francisco Lopez,
Russ Bacarella, and Breck McVay
Russ Bacarella’s Loara High School ROP Automotive Technology team of
Francisco Lopez and Breck McVay won the auto troubleshooting
portion of a skills contest sponsored by the Orange County
Automobile Dealers Association (OCADA) on Saturday, January
26, at Hyundai headquarters in Fountain Valley. OCADA will
sponsor the Loara
High School team trip next month to New York
City to compete in the national contest.
Four North Orange County ROP teams competed in the event. To qualify for the troubleshooting
contest, students had to attain the top scores in a
100-question written test. Sixty people from thirty schools
competed. Four of the winning teams were from North Orange
County ROP
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ROP students Kenneth
Heil and Jose Luna, Instructors David Endo and John
Bruestle, and ROP student Francisco Lopez
Second place was won by the
La Habra High School team of Kenneth Heil and Jose Luna, who were coached by David Endo.
Fourth place and sixth place, respectively, were earned by
first-time competitors Max Camarillo and Anthony Martinez
from Sonora High School, Mike Russell, instructor;
and Garrett Doerr and Blake Putnam, Los Alamitos High
School, taught by Greg Del Vecchio.
Congratulations to the three
winning teams from Sonora, Loara, and La Habra High
Schools!
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Students train at school
and at dealerships, and the dealerships provide the cars for
the troubleshooting contest. Teaching dealerships included
Allen Hyundai; Don Steve’s Chevrolet; Hardin Honda; Phillips
Buick Pontiac Mazda; Suzuki Depot/Kia Depot, and Toyota of
Orange.
All students won OCADA-sponsored
scholarships to any Orange
County community college. Additionally, Loara High’s first place students won
$5,000 scholarships to Universal Technical Institute; $4,000
scholarships to Advanced Technology Institute; and $1,000
scholarships to Perry Technical Institute.
La Habra’s second place
students won $3,000 scholarship to Universal Technical
Institute; and a $2,500 scholarship to Advanced Technology
Institute.
Other competing
teams were from Mission Viejo High School and the
San Clemente
High School
Automotive Academy.
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Fullerton
High School tenth grader Josh Jenkins, a
student in Barbara Pieper’s ROP 3D Computer
Animation class, won Irvine-based Blizzard
Entertainment’s poster contest advertising “An
Evening With Blizzard.” The contest was open
to any student involved in the Orange County
Department of Education’s Animation Project.
Blizzard Entertainment is responsible for such
gaming staples as World of WarCraft ®,
with 10 million subscribers.
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Josh said
he “paid attention to what the client wanted, accessed their
web site to look at their graphics, and used some of those
to create the poster.” Barbara Pieper emphasized to
her students the necessity of creating designs for their
client, using client type styles, maps, and art whenever
possible. That attention to the client paid off for
Josh. His poster will be printed and distributed to schools
in Orange County with Josh’s signature prominently
displayed.
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Sue
Ramsey’s Principles of Teaching and Learning
students at Magnolia High School volunteered to participate
in Salk Elementary School’s Read Across America
week. They read to the elementary school students during
their first period class on March 3. Lynne Porter,
ROP’s Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services,
couldn’t resist joining the fun and spent the hour reading
to the young students as well.
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Students
on their lunch hour at Fullerton High in late February
engaged in a contest of quick reflexes and knowledge as they
battled to the finish in a freshman only video game contest
in ROP 3D Computer Animation instructor Barbara Pieper’s
classroom. There was a $50 prize for the winner and 300
points for the winner’s (Small Learning Community) House.
Grant Brown of Bastanchury House took first place,
and Christian Belcher of Amerige House took second.
CGS Kara Bluntach coordinated the 3-day
open house event that included all technical ROP classes on
campus.
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Grant Brown
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Lynne Porter
Awarded Ruby Slippers
Lynne Porter,
M.A., Assistant Superintendent, Educational
Services, was awarded the Ruby Slippers
Education Award for the second time in four
years by the Building Industry Association of
Orange County.
Originally
presented with the award at BIA awards dinner
meeting, she was honored at the December meeting
of the North Orange County ROP Board. On hand
to present the award from the BIA (from left to
right) were Lawrence Jones, Education Director;
David Greminger, president; and Andy Bernstein,
Chair, Ruby Slippers Committee. Andy Bernstein
said that "Lynne won the award for her tireless
and uncompromising dedication to excellence in
career-technical education.
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Lynne has
devoted a great deal of time and effort to
building a partnership among the BIA, NOCROP and
the school districts served by NOCROP to develop
Building Industry Technology Academies in the
schools. In just seven short years, four
academies have been developed--three of them in
the past three years--at Katella, Western,
Valencia and Brea Olinda High Schools. This is
an exciting time for business and education
partnerships, and we are very grateful to Lynne
for her instrumental role in this partnership."
Congratulations, Lynne
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100% of
North OC ROP LVN Students
Pass
State
Licensing
Test
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Congratulations to
the North Orange County ROP LVN students! Once again, 42 out of 42 students who took the
NCLEX licensure test for
vocational nurses passed the test. In reviewing
the test scores for the California nursing schools,
community colleges and ROPs whose students took the
test, the 100% pass rate is very rare. ROP vocational nurse program graduates have one of the highest overall pass
rates of any schools in the state. From 1999 to
2006, the North Orange County
ROP average pass rate was 94%. Last year’s average pass rate increased to
98.96%.
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