CCIU
Communications Intern: Photography, Kids News, Press Releases and Administrative Tasks
1. “CAT Pickering pioneers QR codes in yearbook”
- PR Newswire Coverage: “Tech Students Pioneer QR Codes in Yearbook”
- Philadelphia Inquirer Coverage: “For Chester County school, scanning the yearbook acquires new meaning”
2. “Student journalists chosen for conference press team”
With press badges in place, and notebooks, pens, cameras and microphones in hand, seven aspiring Chester County student journalists will board the early bird train into Philadelphia this month to gain some real world experience.
- Daily Local News Coverage: “Local students selected as press team for conference”
3. “Local students launch into learning at the NASA Summer of Innovations camp series”
Students across Pennsylvania are set to blast off into an out-of-this-world summer learning experience at the Summer of Innovation camps courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant funding.
4. “Students Cultivate Vegetables and Pride in Community Garden”
Pride and self-sufficiency have also sprouted among the tomatoes, carrots and zucchini of Oxford’s first community garden.
5. “TCHS student inspires young mothers”
Elizabeth Arizaga, a 2011 graduate of Kennett High School and the Chester County Technical College High School, had a simple message for the teenage mothers recently gathered at the YoungMOMs meeting in Kennett Square: Finishing high school is an absolute must.
It was not the typical Monday for the fifth graders of East Goshen Elementary. They baked cookies, cut hair, changed tires, planted pumpkins, checked pulses and learned all about the prospects of career and technical education at the Chester County Technical College High School’s (TCHS) “Insight Onsite.”
7. Citadel Heart of Learning Award
Karen Vickroy liked to tag along to her mother’s kindergarten class on days off from high school, finding herself drawn to the child who needed the most help. It is a trait that never wavered throughout her 18-year career in special education and for this commitment the multiple disability support teacher was awarded the 2011 Citadel Heart of Learning Award for the Chester County Intermediate Unit.
8. “Kayla Higgins soars to new heights at Longwood”
Not many high school students spent the summer waist-deep in water lilies, scaling trees with professional arborists and pruning the world-renowned grounds of Longwood Gardens but that is exactly how Kayla Higgins put her green thumb to work these past three months.
9. “Michael Katch named new principal at TCHS”
Few can say their high school principal wore a badge, served in the national guard and was voted wittiest in high school, but Michael Katch is not like other principals. Katch,the newly appointed principal of Chester County Technical College High School(TCHS) Pennock’s Bridge Campus, knows first-hand the challenges of career selection. He has served in the military, the police force and at one point even considered mortuary science but fate finally landed him in a career in education.
About the Chester County Intermediate Unit:
The Chester County Intermediate Unit is a regional educational agency that provides services to the 12 school districts in Chester County. This includes services to nearly 85,000 public and non-public school students and over 6,000 educators. CCIU’s major services include: special education and compensatory education programs; career, technical and customized education; mentor training and staff development; technology initiatives; consortia for school business operations; and curriculum services.
