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Wake Tech Graduates Continue To Find Strong Job Opportunities With Business, Government Graduates of Wake Technical Commu nity College continue to find strong job opportunities with businesses, indus tries, medical facilities, government of fices, and a variety of other agencies throughout the Wake/Triangle area. Many have established their own firms. The college offers more than 70 ca reer programs in business, engineering technology, health, public service and vocational fields. Students in these pro grams have explored the job market and see many options. They look forward to completion of their studies and to im portant work opportunities. Willie Bost III is among those students preparing for a promising future. Bost enrolled in the two-year electronics en gineering technology curriculum after talking with graduates who praised the excellent instruction they received at Wake Tech. He says he also liked the idea of gaining paid, practical work ex perience through the college’s coopera tive education (work/study) program. With one quarter remaining before . graduation, Bost is currently earning co operative work experience at Buehler Products of Cary while taking evening classes at Wake Tech. After graduating, he plans to return to Wake Tech to earn an associate’s degree in computer engi neering technology and then find em ployment ir some type of electronic field service. “I would recommend Wake Tech very highly to anyone interested in the elec tronics field,” he says. The outlook is strong for engineering technology graduates, who find numer ous opportunities as technicians in in dustry. In the electronics engineering technology program, for example, gradu ates may work as assistants to engineers or as liaisons between engineers and skilled craftspersons. After earning an associate’s degree at Wake Tech, a number of engineering technology graduates pursue a bachelor's or other advanced degree. Conversely, a number of students at Wake Tech have already earned a four-year degree and ^JlMtal.! r1 I BOIEHTS 0,0,1 COOPBIATIVE ED.-Ms. CaBna Manley, a student (a the administrative met techeoiegy program at Wake Tech, eejeyed her ceepsrattve education experience in the pubic attain department with the H.C. Department ef Transportation. are developing engineering technology skills for a career change. Larry McQueen, a 1991 graduate of the automation/robotics technology pro gram at Wake Tech, is an example. McQueen had earned a B.S. in biology and chemistry and worked for a number of years in state government before choosing to make a career change. To day, he has a career in automation at Western Micro technology in the Re search Triangle Park. He enrolled in tits automation/robot ics technology program after investigat ing the job opportunities in this field and inquiring about Wake Tech. He says he learned a great deal in the program, add ing that the class sizes were small and the instruction personalized. “I’ve always been mechanically in clined,” he says. *Tm glad I developed a hands-on skill.* The cooperative education program adds another dimension for Wake Tech students, allowing them to gain practi cal experience and earn money. Callina Manley, an administrative office tech nology student, especially enjoyed her cooperative experience in the public af fairs department with the N.C. Depart ment of Transportation. Manley's responsibilitiee included typ ing, filing, working with special events, doing computer work and other duties. She adds that her curriculum classes gave her good preparation for her co-op work experience. This combination of classroom instruc tion and cooperative work experience draws a number of students to Wake Tech. Enrollment continues to grow, and the college had the largest spring-quar ter enrollment in its history. “The college has had a very successful recruiting year—overwhelming, in feet,* says Bob Brown, vice president for stu dent services at Wake Tech. Applications for fall quarter admissions are 51 per cent higher than they were at this point a year ago, he adds. The college maintains dose ties with area high schools by participating in ca reer days, sponsoring open houses and getting involved in other recruitment ac tivities. Recently, for example, second year students in culinary arts programs at Wake Tech prepared a buffet luncheon for several Enloe High School students interested in food service careers. During the event instructor Fredi Morf also introduced a Wake Tech culinary technology student—Cheryl Craft—who won a bronze medal in a recent food p'-eparation competition sponsored by t.-js Professional Chefs of North Caro line and the N.C. Restaurant Associa tion. Craft already has a promising job in culinary arts at the Cardinal Club in Raleigh, he noted. The college researches local employ ment demands to determine program ming needs. This fell, for example, the college will begin offering an degree program focusing on one of the top 10 careen for the 1990a: medical of fice technology. This two-year program will prepare graduates to enter the medical secre tarial field. Graduates may find employ ment with medical supply and equip riaa, physicians’ offices, hospitals and other medical care ferilitiss. Two Wake County Teachers To Receive NC’s Outstanding Art Education Award To Foster Creativity & Culture Two Wake County teachers will re ceive Mise North Carolina’s Outstand ing Art Education Award. Terry Blalock, band instructor at Athens Drive High School, and Anne Kratrer, an art teacher at Farmington Woods Elementary School, will be visited by Jennifer Vaden Smith, Miss North Carolina 1991, on Fri day. They are among seven teachers statewide chosen for the honor by Miss North Carolina in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Public In struction. Miss North Carolina will visit Athens Drive at 8:30 a.m. and Farmington Woods at 2:30 p.m. to personally present the awards. Blalock, a, 20-year educator, has been teaching band students at Athens Drive for 10 yean. He directs the school’s wind ensemble as well as the concert, jazz and marching bands. One of his most memo rable moments came after a marching band competition where his students performed in the rain. Afterward, he re ceived a letter not only praising the band members' music, but their attitude and character. “I try to instill an attitude of wanting to learn and doing your best,” Blalock said. “Music is a vehicle for making stu dents better people, helping them to un derstand culture and the arts.” Kratzer has been teaching arts for 14 years, six at Farmington Woods. She is extremely involved in educating the com munity about the arts and even helps to coordinate an annual exhibition of stu U... dent artwork from Cary area schools. In 1985, she was Wales County’s teacher of the year an.d the Region 3 teacher of the year. “It is important to realize the arts fos ter creativity, problem solving, and criti cal and evaluative skills, crucial to the development of the total child,” Kratser said. Blalock and Kratxer ware both nomi nated by the parents and students of their respective schools and were se lected for making a significant difference in their school or community.
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