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Celebrate Career & Technical Education Month in February!
We hope you celebrate your local outstanding CTE programs in your districts and feature the great work they are doing.
Here are more resources for CTE Month:
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Astoria High School features a 2-year natural resources program of study for fisheries technology. In this program, students learn the science behind fisheries in order to run and operate a student-led fishery. Recently, the class launched "teacher tanks" for classrooms. In this project, the fishery tech students clean and maintain the fish tanks.
The CTE teacher, Lee Cain, has industry connections with state hatchery biologists reporting a shortage of workers in their industry. Lee Cain also provides industry learning connections by facilitating collaborations between students and mentors from Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Clatsop Community College, and the private sector.
 View the spotlight video on the Official NWRESD YouTube channel!
View additional CTE programs on our website.
Interested in getting your program featured on our website and/or newsletter?
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 Our 3-day Work-Based Learning challenge for high school students took place on November 7th, 8th, and 9th - it was a blast! Congratulations to our winners listed below!
Beginner Division Winners
- Best Presentation: The Three Musketeers
- Most Creative: The Chefs
- Best Overall: Pacific Prodigies
Experienced Division Winners
- Best Presentation: Destination Code
- Most Creative: THE Tea Drinkers
- Best Overall: Hard Stuck Scratch
If you aren't familiar with codeORcreate, it is a student event run by NWRESD. High school students get 48 hours to create a website, app, or video game that solves a challenge. Here is a short 2-minute video to show your students!
We hope to see you in Fall 2025 for the next codeORcreate event. You can learn more about codeORcreate on our website.
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The Sister Adele Scholarship Fund was established in 2005 to provide supplementary assistance to qualified individuals of farmworker households interested in beginning or continuing their post-secondary education. Apply by February 14th, 2025.
The KPMG Future Leaders Program continues to focus on developing future generations of women leaders. The scholarship is funded by the proceeds from the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and KPMG Women's Leadership Summit. Twenty-two female high school seniors will receive a $10,000 college scholarship/year for 4 years, attend a leadership retreat, and be paired with a year-long mentor. Apply by February 1st, 2025.
Check out the 2025 application and learn about their journeys here. Questions? Contact Lisa Riley with questions.
High school American Indian / Alaska Native students are eligible to apply for the Tribal Health Scholars. The Tribal Health Scholars includes a 14-week virtual experience to learn about different healthcare fields, 12 hours of clinical shadowing, and one-on-one + group mentoring based on student educational and career interests.
Student can earn up to $1,300 for this experience. Apply by January 20th, 2025.
This year, Oregon ACTE will once again be offering multiple $1000 scholarships to students pursuing career and technical education certifications, careers, and/or degrees.
Due Date: March 1, 2025 | Application form
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Back by popular demand, we are gearing up for Summer Educator Externships and need your input!
What is a Summer Educator Externship, you ask? An in-person, paid experience during the first two weeks of August 2025 to tour local industries and learn more about various careers. Experiences will vary, but you can expect to spend one day visiting industry partners and learning about correlating PCC degree and certificate programs. We will tour facilities, meet with employees, learn about hiring practices and skills necessary for success, and conclude with an educator collaboration session focused on applying this invaluable information.
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If you are interested in attending an educator externship this summer, please complete the 2025 Educator Externship Interest Form by Friday, February 14th. Please note that this is not a registration form, but instead a way for us to gauge interest and tailor externships to your needs.
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Career Kits: Free Resource aligned to 1st Grade! |
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Explore our construction-themed career kits with your first grade students! Kits feature six lessons with corresponding children's books and hands-on activities.
Photo: 1st Grade Jewell students posing with their construction build from the final lesson
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SchooLinks is a college and career readiness platform designed to help support and empower students in their unique journey. Beginning in Fall 2025, all students from districts in Columbia, Clatsop, and Tillamook county will have access to the platform. Only Banks, Forest Grove, Gaston, Sherwood, and Tigard-Tualatin school districts will have access to the platform in Washington county.
More details regarding implementation will be shared in the Spring with the designated implementation lead. Contact your supervisor if you need more information.
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February 26th - 28th | Seattle Convention Center (Washington)
Lead, engage, and assist educational communities to reach higher levels of student and educator success through the use of 21st century technology.
April 2nd - 4th | Bellevue, Washington
More than 1,000 CTE professionals will gather to discuss the hottest topics in Work-Based Learning, network with colleagues and industry partners, and hear from exciting keynotes.
- Buld strong education-workforce connections, opportunities and experiences
- Cultivate a comprehensive and collaborative work-based learning ecosystem
- Provide students with core employability, technical and career-readiness skills
April 15th - 18th | Seaside Convention Center (Oregon)
Reunite! The Oregon ACTE Annual Conference is the largest CTE conference in the state...last year's conference included well over 500 attendees. It is a chance to learn from each other, to network and meet new people, talk with CTE vendors, to be inspired and to find ways to advance CTE throughout the state. We invite you to register for our conference in Seaside.
May 21st - 23rd | University of Portland (Oregon)
The annual PNACAC conference offers a multi-day event to bring educators with resources to help guide and empower students as they prepare for college admission. At this conference, participants can expect to attend workshops and educational sessions with a group of job alike from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
January 19th at 12 pm | Zoom
Join Brandie Clark, ODE WBL Specialist to learn about Work-Based Learning.This meeting will focus on supporting the career connected learning stage of "Career Preparation and Training." In this session, learn to boost your student's career readiness through applied learning and plan experiences that meet work-based learning criteria.
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