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Tech School Open House

 

By Leslie Truluck

CREST HAVEN –– The Cape May County Technical School hosted a ‘Pathways to Success’ open house March 18 for potential students and their parents to gain information on the many programs it offers.
Freeholder Director Daniel Beyel and Freeholders Ralph Bakley and Leonard Desiderio were seen walking amongst the mass of people touring the school.
Photo displays, project presentations, tours, door prizes, music, and demonstrations with hands-on trails of various crafts kept visitors busy with plenty to see and do.
Attendees were able to meet teachers, taste student-prepared hor d’oeuvres in the cafeteria, see the classrooms and test the learning tools available to students.
Everything from intra-oral cameras to robots created by math students showed visitors the ample programs available to students.
A “Honey, I Shrunk the Visitors” activity in which onlookers appeared on camera edited to appear miniaturized then displayed in the Communication Arts section.
Sophomore Katia Campbell showed Michaela Carlino and Courtney Bassian, eighth-graders at Middle Township Middle School, how to make people appear ant-size.
A bus from the Tozour Building took visitors to the greenhouse where the Landscaping and Golf Course Maintenance students learn horticulture.
Ami Adams, a freshman taking the exploratory class, demonstrated the woodwork shop.
Caitlyn Fletcher and Jessica Appleyard study cosmetology in the adult program and volunteered to display the hair and skin products.
Keith Hickman came with his daughter Krysta Hickman to tour the school and enjoyed a paraffin hand therapy in the cosmetology department.
Jillian Gaskill, an adult cosmetology student, showed her boyfriend around the school because he is interested in taking adult classes too.
The school also highlighted sports programs and extracurricular activities with booths in the gymnasium. Freshmen Sam McAleer and Kerry Player, basketball teammates, told visitors about their team.
Spanish teacher Maria Italiano-McGreevy demonstrated how to make worry dolls, a Spanish custom in which people tell their troubles to the dolls before bedtime, and gave one to student Alec McAlarnen.
Potential students interested in coming to the Technical School got a taste of what its like in order to make a more informed decision.

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