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Eleven students from the Cienega Photography program attended the Weddings Portrait Photographers International (WPPI 2012) Conference in Las Vegas.  The conference is a fast tempo training venue with a world renowned expo with all of the top vendors in the photography industry.  Over 13,000 photographers were in attendance this year.  The students were in class with other photographers from all over the world, listening to successful strategies throughout each of the three days.  The students also had the opportunity to sit through the articulation of judging this year’s international portrait contest.  Students returned back to Cienega fired up about venturing more professionally into the industry.  The return trip included an early morning shoot of Hoover Dam and the new Arizona to Nevada Bridge.

The students funded their entire way to the conference with one major fundraiser, which was a community effort at Acacia Elementary.  The students set up studio lighting and provided prints for the Father-Daughter dance.  The students raised over a $1000 with the photo shoot.  Image attached of client, Joe Grossi and daughter, taken by Ericka Edwards

The Saturday after the return, the school studio was opened for a workshop to reinforce some of the lighting techniques learned at WPPI.  The student pictured is a CTE Culinary student from Cienega Crystal Sellers, taken by photo student Chance Calgher.

The WPPI image attached is of the students who attended.  Although not a requirement, the selected students are taking at least one AP course in their schedule.  The students were in agreement, one of their best high school experiences.

Victoria has gone above and beyond her classroom activities.  She is currently our Moodle/website coordinator for FBLA.  She has done an amazing job keeping up the website, adding pictures and making sure all the students are informed about the upcoming events.
She is a self-starter in creating new idea.  Example:  She wanted to do a promotion for the student store and created Ice Cream Friday’s.  She did all the necessary paperwork, met with the Principle, made advertisements to put around school, wrote up an announcement, and made it a huge success!  All the students at the school love this.
She also took it upon herself to create the student store schedule for the whole semester.
Every morning she comes into my classroom with either new ideas or asks what she can do to help.
I am so lucky to have a student so willing to go above and beyond that I can’t thank her enough for all that she does.
She is truly a student of the month!

More than 100 students representing 14 different high schools from Pinal and Pima counties descended upon Central Arizona College’s Signal Peak Campus for the event on Feb. 10.

The students, all from the FFA’s South Central Arizona Region, competed in events such as Agricultural Business, Agricultural Mechanics, Agronomy, Aquaculture, Dairy Management, Entomology, Forestry, Horse Evaluation, Job Interview, Livestock Evaluation, Meats Evaluation, Nursery Operations, Range Management, Soil and Wildlife Management.

Casa Grande Union claimed the team titles in Agricultural Mechanics, Agronomy, Entomology, Meats Evaluation and Soil.

Cienega earned four first-place finishes in Aquaculture, Livestock Evaluation, Range Management and Wildlife Management.

The following is a complete list of winners from the FFA event:

Agricultural Business
Team: Florence (Bailey George, Harmony English, Alexis Johnson, Maria Paulos)

Agricultural Mechanics
Individual Champion: Preston Sipes (Casa Grande Union)
Team: Casa Grande Union (Byron Ollerton, Preston Sipes, Shane White, Ian Wilkey

Agronomy
Individual Champion: John Wilson (Casa Grande Union)
Team: Casa Grande Union (Hailee Runels, Dixon Tipton, Katie Wallis, John Wilson)

Aquaculture
Individual Champion: Jorge Sanchez (Coolidge)
Team: Cienega (Morgan Epperson, Coy Hubbell, Andrew Norman, Amy Schied)

Dairy Management
Individual Co-Champions: Tenanya Boone & Monique Cortez (Amphitheater)
Team: Amphitheater: Adhem Azzabi, Tenanya Boone, Monique Cortez, Melinda Saucedo

Entomology
Individual Champion: Rabe Yazzie (Casa Grande)
Team: Casa Grande: Stacie Munden, Davy Smith, Rabe Yazzie

Forestry
Individual Champion: Cheyenne Stetson (Pima JTED)
Team: Pima JTED: Hanna Eagan, Eddie Palmenberg, Miriam Solinsky, Cheyenne Stetson

Horse Evaluation -
Individual Champion: Caitlin Frizzell (Marana)
Team: Marana: Denver Avery, Caitlin Frizzell, Whitney Gowin, Derrice Ingram

Job Interview
Individual Champion: Bryette Sipes (Casa Grande)

Livestock Evaluation
Individual Champion: Sydnea Rush (Cienega)
Team:  Cienega: Taylor Burleson, Brianna Perraza, Sydnea Rush, Kristi Van Vorhis

Meats Evaluation
Individual Champion: Sarah Lawson (Casa Grande)
Team: Casa Grande: Michaela Calvillo, Taylor Hubbard, Sarah Lawson, Rachael White

Nursery Operations
Individual Champion: Rebekka Nicolay (Flowing Wells)
Team: Flowing Wells: Katelyn Carter, Anthony Grady, Rebekka Nicolay

Range Management
Individual Champion: Chauncey Smith (Cienega)
Team: Cienega: Kelly Mazur, Kathy Lauderdale, Chauncey Smith

Soil
Individual Champion: Taylor Meirs (Casa Grande)
Team: Casa Grande: Tanner Farrow, Tatiana Lamantia, Taylor Meirs, Jocelyn Pinon

Wildlife Management
Individual Champion: Phillip Wetherbee (Cienega)
Team: Cienega: Eric Friedenberg, Annie Nallin, LaFonda Radcliffe, Phillip Wetherbee
Born in Safford, Ariz., in the early 1940s, Merrell’s career included earning Vocational Teacher of the Year in Arizona, a NISOD Award at Central Arizona College, and an honor from the Arizona Cotton Growers Association.
Considered the founding father of agricultural education at CAC, Merrell practiced what he preached – farming – which he did for two decades. He also was a pest control adviser, owner and operator of Hacienda Ag Labs, and served as president of the Farm Bureau, the Pinal County Fair Board and the Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association. He was an adviser of the CAC Rodeo Club and an academic adviser and livestock committee chairman.
The National Future Farmers of America is a dynamic youth organization that changes lives and prepares students for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
The FFA was founded in 1928 to provide leadership training for high school students of vocational agriculture. The 33 young farm boys who congregated in Kansas City’s Baltimore Hotel that year could not have predicted how the organization they started would become a leader in agricultural education nationwide.
In 1950, the 81st Congress of the United States, recognizing the importance of the FFA as an integral part of the program of vocational agriculture, granted a Federal Charter to the FFA. Today, the FFA uses agricultural education to prepare students for more than 300 careers in the science, business and technology of agriculture.
Since 1928, millions of agriculture students – no one knows exactly how many – have donned the official FFA jacket and championed the FFA creed.
The FFA has opened its doors and its arms to minorities and women, ensuring that all students can reap the benefits of agricultural education, which prepares students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices in the global agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems.
The Future Farmers of America organization remains committed to the individual student, providing a path to achievement in premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
Now the organization is expanding the nation’s view of traditional agriculture and finding new ways to infuse it into the classroom.
The iconic blue corduroy jacket proudly worn by FFA members embodies years of history, tradition and excellence in agricultural education.

– www.centralaz.edu –

Tom Di Camillo
Director of Public Relations
Central Arizona College
520-494-5202 / www.centralaz.edu

“Life isn’t big; no it’s kind of small, made of small moments, they’re all strung together. If you don’t look out you might miss them all, then its just passed you on by like the weather.” – Tom Cochrane, Victory Day

Read what Ashley Curtis, 1st grade teacher at Cottonwood had to say about the experience:

As for the “photography mentoring” WOW WOW WOW!  These high school students were so knowledgeable. They were passionate and excited as well as patient. My students (and I) learned so much from their expertise.
I have students coming in during their lunch, at morning, and after school editing their pictures, trying new ideas that the high schools shared with them. They are looking at the pictures in a new way. Just the experience of getting pieces critiqued and seeing that it doesn’t mean something is good or bad, was a fantastic learning opportunity.

This year’s regional conference, which took place at Safford High School, Safford, Arizona, was a blazing success! With 54 of our members attending, it pushed the total number of present FBLA members over the 500 mark. Out of our school’s members, 18 of them placed in the top 3 of 13 events.

For the high school members, Jonathan Stout took first place in Technology Concepts; Garret Anderson placed in second in Intro to Technology Concepts; in Intro to Business Communications, Garret Anderson placed first and Kacey Williams placed second; in Intro to Parliamentary Procedures, Michael Barger placed in 1^st; the team of Zaynab Khatoun and Robin Grumbles placed in 2^nd in Desktop Publishing; in Business Graphics the 1^st place team consisted of Julie Dean, Robin Grumbles, Zaynab Khatoun, and Daria McCracken; Michael Barger placed 1^st in Impromptu Speaking; Henry Hastings placed 2^nd in Public Speaking; and Jamie McDonald and Taylor Griffin placed 1^st in Marketing.

As for our middle school students, Nicolina Nguyen placed first in Business Math; Courtney Barger placed 3^rd in Principles and Procedures; in Career Explorations, Courtney Barger took 1^st place; and for Pledge and Mission Statement, Courtney Barger placed in 1^st. We have some pretty hard workers in our chapter, with a little more effort, all of us can do great!