Members of the Missouri Future Business Leaders of America – Phi Beta Lambda Chapter from North Technical High School recently traveled to Springfield, MO for the Missouri Future Business Leaders of America – Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference.
North Technical High School Culinary Arts students were awarded 1st place for the third year in a row at the annual Culinary Cook-Off competition at Forest Park Community College on Friday, April 20th. This is the 11th year of the competition, is co-sponsored by Explore St. Louis.
LHM Hotels hosted our Hospitality and Hotel Management students last week for a full day of shadowing in their Westport Plaza properties. Managers in 6 departments at the Sheraton Westport Plaza, Sheraton Westport Chalet, and the Doubletree by Hilton St. Louis spent up to an hour showing our students the inner workings of their day to day operations.
North Tech students did a great job competing in this week’s SkillsUSA competitions held in Jefferson City, Columbia, and Linn, MO. Students competed in both hands-on and leadership contests.
Diesel Technology senior Matt Ledbetter is spending the last semester of this year on the job. He has been hired as a paid intern at L & C Truck Repair, a full-service truck repair company in the Overland area.
Diesel Technology senior Jack Dietrich will be joining the ranks at L. Keeley Construction next semester as he begins a paid internship to round out his training. Dietrich will be the first high school intern to work as a Service Fleet Maintenance Tech for the company.
Several students from our Construction and Welding programs were invited to visit a Korte Construction job site this week. Jason Weiss, Client Services Manager for The Korte Company, gave the students a personal tour of BJC’s Alton Memorial Hospital project. The 2-story, 42,000 square foot building is an addition to Medical Building “B” on the Alton campus and construction began in April of 2017.
Congratulations to North Tech’s first class of certified Patient Care Technicians! The Health Sciences department added Patient Care Technician (PCT) curriculum to the program this year.
Three North Tech graduates have been hired into the St. Louis County Police Department’s Cadet program. The program is designed to introduce young people who are interested in pursuing careers in policing to the profession while paying them to work shifts for the department.
This week, four North Tech students began classes at St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley campus as part of the Gateway to College STEM program.
