Last week marked 12 weeks left in the school year. It's hard to believe that we are approaching graduation and summer break already! For those of you that know me pretty well, you know that running is something that I like to do in my free time. Currently I am in the middle of training for the Boston Marathon, so on most Saturday mornings I can be found running the streets of Delphos, getting anywhere from 10 to 20 miles in on the roads. Often times I consider these runs as therapy sessions, as they give me plenty of time to reflect and think. While running through town this past weekend I started thinking about all the good things our students are doing in the communities that we serve and thus came the idea of doing a 12 part blog series over the final weeks of school to highlight our communities. With that being said I am going to start with the community that this idea started in: Delphos.
Delphos is a special community for Vantage, as it is the only one that contains two of our schools: Delphos Jefferson and St. John's High Schools. The students from these schools are accomplishing great things this year at Vantage. When I started writing this blog I began by posting pictures of some of the students in action, but soon realized that I would not have enough room to post everyone, so if I missed you with a shout out, I am sorry! Here are some of the highlights:
Over the weekend Chase Martin qualified for the State Wrestling Meet. Chase is a junior from St. John's in our Electricity Lab. In the summer he works for ATR Mechanical and plans to work towards an Electrical Engineering degree after high school (hopefully through an apprenticeship). Good luck this weekend, Chase!
Recently, several of our Delphos Jefferson students placed at the SkillsUSA regional competition and will be competing at State during the first week of April:
- Mark Rice will be competing in the Carpentry competition. Mark is a senior in our Carpentry Lab who plans on working for Miller Bros. Construction after graduation.
- John Pseekos and Tanner Mathewson will be competing in the Welding Fabrication competition. They are both seniors in our Welding program. After graduation Tanner plans on working at Unverferth Manufacturing and John also plans on pursuing a career in Welding.
A couple more current Delphos students have excelled in past competitions that are also worth noting:
Gunnar Stemen was our local winner of the Poetry Out Loud contest here at Vantage. He is a senior from St. John's in our Network Systems program. Gunnar plans on attending the Ohio State University next year, majoring in Computer Programming.
Bridget Martin (Health Technology, Delphos Jefferson) competed at HOSA Nationals last summer in Florida! She competed in the Nursing Assistant competition as a junior. As a senior, Bridget has earned her CPR/First Aid, STNA, Certified EKG Technician, and EMT Basic Certifications! She plans on majoring in Nursing at Wright State next year.
Lastly, spring is a time when many of our seniors have jobs lined up for after graduation and those that excel in the classroom have the opportunity to do advanced job placement through our CAP (Career Advanced Placement) Program. Here is a quick shout out to Logan Teman and Hunter Mericle (both seniors in Industrial Mechanics from Delphos Jefferson) who are both on Advanced Placement. Logan is working for Krendl Machine and Hunter is working for Vanamatic, both in Delphos. Keep up the good work guys!
Soon, many of our junior students will also be lining up summer jobs/internships. Just a couple weeks ago Dustin Pohlman and Abbi Price from ATR came in and presented to our juniors about these kinds of opportunities. Thank you to our business partners in Delphos for all that you do to support our students!
As a resident of the Delphos area, I am so proud of our students. I also look forward to many future success stories of how our students have benefited from the partnerships that exist between our schools and businesses!
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