MVCTC Collaborates with Partner Districts to offer Career Technical Options for Area High School Students
Englewood, Ohio – Butler and Wayne High School students have new class options this school year thanks to satellite program partnerships with MVCTC.
Butler High School MVCTC STEM and CPT Satellite
The Vandalia-Butler MVCTC satellite partnership offers STEM and Certified Production Technician (CPT) certification classes. MVCTC Satellite Supervisor Jason Moore explains, “The Butler STEM program is offering Pre-Engineering and Robotics courses. This program is designed to use hands-on, real-world problems to empower students to lead their own discovery.”
Moore also states, “The Certified Production Technician (CPT) program at Butler provides students with a certification which could lead to employment in the manufacturing career field. Exposure to real-world opportunities will provide students with expanded career options.”
The CPT program will allow students to receive industry certification while still at Butler High School. The program consists of five individual certificate modules: Safety; Quality Practices & Measurement; Manufacturing Processes & Production; Maintenance Awareness and Green Production. Candidates must earn the first four certificates to receive the full CPT certification.
Butler High School Principal, Thomas Luebbe, stated, “At Butler, we take pride in providing an amazing academic Program of Studies for our Aviators. We are excited by our new satellite program partnership with Miami Valley Career Technology Center and the resulting wonderful MVCTC courses that have been added to our strong Butler STEM curriculum: Introduction to Engineering, Robotics, and Certified Production Technician Credential.”
The instructor for the Butler High School satellite program is, Stephanie Davis. Stephanie was the Brookville-MVCTC Agricultural Education satellite instructor for ten years before accepting the workforce academy instructor position with Sidney City Schools for the past few years.
Wayne High School MVCTC Agricultural Education Satellite
The new Wayne Agricultural Program is horticulture focused with course offerings for grades 9-12. Courses offered are Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, where students learn about careers in Agricultural and Environmental Systems. They will examine principles of food science, natural resource management, animal science and management, plant and horticultural science, power technology and bioscience. Students will explore the FFA organization and Supervised Agricultural Experience programs.
A second-course offering is Agricultural and Environmental Systems Capstone/ Work Experience. Students will apply Agriculture and Environmental Systems knowledge and project/problem-based learning opportunities that occur both in and away from school.
The goal of the partnership with Wayne is to offer additional agriculture courses in the future. The agriculture industry is one of the strongest employers in the State of Ohio, exposing students to careers in science and agriculture opens up new opportunities for their future.
Theresa Lingenfelter, MVCTC Satellite Supervisor, states, “MVCTC is excited to offer this unique and hands-on learning experience to help students understand how agriculture is used in our lives each day and to promote problem-solving and leadership skills. MVCTC is proud of our continued partnership with the Huber Heights School District and looking forward to the future growth of the program.”
Jeff Burke, Principal at Wayne Highs School, states, “We are excited to continue our partnership with the MVCTC with the addition of our new Agriculture Science program. With this partnership we will be able to continue to provide Wayne High School students access to different career choices around the state of Ohio.”
The Wayne satellite program instructor is Sara Dungan. Sara attended MVCTC in the Agriculture Resource Management program completing the program in 2013. She went on to earn her bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University in Agricultural Education.
MVCTC works with partner school districts to offer 18 satellite locations and serves over 5,000 students each year. Satellite locations include:
- Arcanum – Agricultural Education
- Bethel - STEM
- Brookville – Agricultural Education
- Eaton – Agricultural Education and Project Lead the Way
- Franklin Monroe – Agricultural Education and Business Academy
- Huber Heights – Agricultural Education and Interactive Multimedia
- Miami East – Agricultural Education
- Miami Valley Hospital South – Project SEARCH
- Milton-Union – Agricultural Education, Business Academy, and STEM
- Mississinawa Valley- Agricultural Education and Business Academy
- National Trail – Agricultural Education and Project Lead the Way
- Northmont – Career Credit Lab (CCL), Project Lead the Way, STNA Certification, and Robotics Certification
- Preble Shawnee – Project Lead the Way
- Tri-County North – Agricultural Education
- Tri-Village – Agricultural Education
- Twin Valley South – Agricultural Education
- Valley View – Agricultural Education
- Vandalia Butler – STEM and Certified Production Technician (CPT) Certification
Dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations, MVCTC has proudly served the Miami Valley since 1971.
For more information about MVCTC, please visit www.mvctc.com.
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Photo 1 – One of the first assignments for Butler-MVCTC STEM students was to become familiar with robots used in the engineering field. Students researched a robot of their choice and presented their information to the class. Owen Bellar and Ethan McKinney researched and presented information about the Battlefield Extraction-Assistant (BEAR) Robot.
Photo 2 – Butler-MVCTC STEM students had their first experience using Autodesk Inventor. Matt Horner and Jestin Love created a 3D model of a linking cube.
Photo 3 – Wayne High School seniors, Emily Ballew, Eryn Boettcher, Zach Eagan, and Austin Buck enrolled in the new Wayne-MVCTC Agricultural Education course at Wayne High School.
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