Penta Career Center has selected four former students as recipients of the 2024 Outstanding Alumni Award.  The alumni will be recognized during a special evening banquet at Penta on November 14.  Each year the Penta Career Center Outstanding Alumni Award is bestowed upon individuals who have completed a career-technical training program at Penta and who are currently working in a successful career.   Since the award’s inception in 1993, 183 former high school or adult education students have been honored with the award.  

           

The 2024 issue of Perspectives, Penta Career Center's community newsletter, is now available.  Perspectives has an updated design and its been expanded to an 8-page format.  Click HERE to read all about the good things happening at Penta and in career-technical education.  To request a printed copy, please contact [email protected] and one will be mailed to you.  

  Congratulations to Penta students from Early Childhood Education, Culinary Arts and from the Family & Consumer Sciences programs at Anthony Wayne and Otsego who earned top awards at the 2024 FCCLA National Leadership Conference in Seattle, Washington. Fourteen students placed Top 10 in the nation in their competitions and an additional 10 students earned gold or silver awards. A special congratulations to first place award winners: Karter Rinker (Anthony Wayne Junior High) for the Entrepreneurship contest and Ashlynn Jacobs (Anthony Wayne High School) for the Digital Stories for Change contest. Thank you to our dedicated advisors - Jill Kao, Kay-Lynne Schaller, Janea Makowski, Amanda Valdez, and Dova Zak for preparing these students to be Success Ready!  Click HERE to see the entire list of national award winners!

     Registration is underway for Adult Education programs at Penta Career Center that will begin in August and September.  Fast and flexible program options are available in areas like skilled trades, healthcare and manufacturing.  Plus, Penta now offers Firefighter certification programs including: Volunteer Firefighter, Firefighter 1 and Firefighter 2.  Short-term programs are designed to prepare adults for in-demand careers in programs such as:  Auto Maintenance & Light Repair;  Construction Technologies;  Intro to HVAC;  Welding;  CNC Programming/Precision Machining; Dental Assisting; and Phlebotomy.  Penta also offers courses with flexible starting dates including Forklift Training and CDL with Trainco.  

    Congratulations to our on campus and satellite students who earned top awards at the Ohio Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Leadership Conference April 25-26 in Columbus.  Fourteen students earned first place awards and qualify for the FCCLA National Leadership Conference in June in Seattle, Washington.   The detailed list of all the award winners is available by clicking HERE. 

Congratulations to students from the Medical Technologies and Exercise Science & Sports Medicine programs who recently competed in the 2024 HOSA State Leadership Conference in Toledo and earned top awards.  In the prepared speaking contest, Oluwafeyikemi Adeyemo (Maumee), from the Medical Technologies program, placed first in Ohio.  Kylie Kerns (Eastwood), from the Medical Technologies program, placed first in the patient care technician contest.  Adeyemo qualifies for the International Leadership Conference in Houston, TX June 26-29, 2024.  Many students earned Top 10 awards and the results can be found HERE.

   Congratulations to our students who participated in the Ohio SkillsUSA Championships in Columbus on April 9 & 10.  A very special congratulations to Drew Holmes (Springfield) from the Welding program who placed first in Ohio in the Welding competition; and to our Digital Video Production students - Grant Carr (Perrysburg), Brittany Kovalik (Maumee), Jessica Thompson (Oak Harbor), and Samuel Wiggins (Anthony Wayne) who also placed first as a team in the Broadcast News Production contest. This is the fourth year in a row that students from our Digital Video Production program have won first place in this contest!  The first place winners advance to the 2024 SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference in Atlanta.

   Check out the entire list of first, second and third place medal winners HERE.   

   Great job students and kudos to our staff for helping them prepare!

    

     Congratulations to our Penta Career Center students who were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) during a special ceremony on April 4, 2024.  This year 43 students were honored for their career-technical achievements.  The NTHS is similar to the National Honor Society at comprehensive high schools where students are recognized for scholarship, leadership, service, and character. Membership in the NTHS at Penta requires students to maintain excellent attendance, good behavior and a 3.5 overall grade point average. In addition, inductees must meet the four core objectives of NTHS (career development, leadership, service, and recognition opportunities).       The NTHS has been in existence for students at Penta since 2013.  It was established as an additional way to recognize student achievement and leadership.  Students who are members of the NTHS at Penta are also eligible for induction into the National Honor Society at their member school.

    See below for the list of students who were newly inducted into the NTHS.