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Students get hands-on experience of learning options
Oct 22, 2009 (Muskogee Phoenix - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Hilldale High School sophomore Brittani Echols spent part of her school day Wednesday getting her eyebrows waxed.
This wasn't hooky, just a way Brittani and other area 10th-graders learned about cosmetology classes and other career training available at Indian Capital Technology Center.
About 1,600 students from 17 McIntosh, Wagoner and Muskogee County high schools visited ICTC for its third annual TechFest. Students toured the ICTC Muskogee campus to learn about 20 classes the school offers. ICTC student services coordinator Kathy West said similar TechFests are held at ICTC's Tahlequah, Stilwell and Sallisaw campuses.
"Each year we open up our campuses and show what we have to students," West said. "We encourage students to come here as juniors and continue here as seniors, or to come here as seniors."
ICTC high school classes are offered free of charge for students living within each district. Students can receive high school elective credits.
On Tuesday, students often got a hands-on experience of what the different classes are about.
In the Indian Capital cosmetology classroom, visitors got a hands-in, face-on experience.
Brittani said the cosmetology section looked interesting.
"It looks like a lot of fun and looks pretty simple," she said as cosmetology student, Jasmine Redo, a Muskogee High School senior, dabbed wax on paper, applied it to one of Brittani's eyebrows and yanked it off.
Meanwhile Brittani's classmates Nathalie Carman and Kelsey Morse were able to remove dry, dead skin from their hands with a paraffin wax treatment.
"I got dead skin off my hands," Kelsey said. "I stuck my hand in a little bowl. It was feeling all watery at first."
Nathalie said she was interested in all the different things cosmetology offered.
Kelsey, meanwhile said, "I'm more of a welding type person."
Students looked at welding, health care, auto mechanics, auto body, electronics, computer drafting, information technology, even robotics. Student visitors got their hosts to initial the different classrooms they visited.
In the robotics classroom, two preprogrammed two-wheeled "sumobots," each the size of a Rubik's Cube, went at each other in an effort to push the other out of a circle. The classroom also featured a pair of skulls programmed to sing at the visitors.
Hilldale High School counselor Karla James said TechFest was a good way students can learn what ICTC offers.
"Students don't have a good understanding of what the programs are until they come to see it," James said. "They could come in and ask questions and experience the class."
Reach Cathy Spaulding at 918-684-2928 or Click Here to Send Email
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