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SkillsUSA NH Contest held at Nice Bay Neighborhood School
PORTSMOUTH – Nice Bay Neighborhood School was considered one of 12 contest websites internet hosting college students as a part of the annual SkillsUSA NH competitors taking place all through this month. SkillsUSA is a nationwide nonprofit group serving academics, center faculty, highschool and school college students who’re getting ready for careers in commerce, technical and expert service occupations. In keeping with Jeffrey Stuart, Government Director SkillsUSA NH, a complete of 42 contests will happen statewide with college students competing in quite a lot of completely different areas, together with culinary, carpentry, management, and electrical. The scholars are hoping to win a gold medal of their discipline and have the chance to go to the SkillsUSA Nationwide Convention that’s held in Atlanta, Georgia.
For over 15 years, Nice Bay has been a companion in this system offering a facility, gear and experience from college who, in compliance with SkillsUSA requirements, create contest challenges and assist to evaluate.
College students who participated within the GBCC occasion had been offered with contests within the areas of wiring, PC restore, networking and laptop programming. 4 colleges from space Profession and Technical Facilities from across the state participated within the occasion. Examples of challenges included troubleshooting laptop or networking gear, design and putting in networking cables for a constructing, and timed occasions on web site design and coding.
The Expertise USA NH competitors was dropped at GBCC in 2013 by Mike Harrison, Affiliate Professor and Program Coordinator of the School’s Data Applied sciences Program. He, together with fellow Professor and Program Coordinator Kevin Behnke and IST Division Chair, Meg Prescott, act as judges and run competitions in networking and programming.
“For a lot of, the day is a studying alternative as to what talent stage college students want of their chosen profession path to achieve success in opposition to their friends on the nationwide stage. Main an train utilizing fiber optic cabling for instance is displaying them not solely a brand new talent but in addition one which may be very a lot wanted as Community Technicians use fiber optic cables on each avenue and in most buildings.”
Winners of the competitors held at Nice Bay shall be introduced on the SkillsUSA NH awards ceremony on March 19 at Salem Excessive Faculty. “The longer term leaders of our Nation collaborated with a number of the most interesting educators and professors at Nice Bay Neighborhood School right this moment, stated Stuart. It’s such a particular occasion to expertise.”
Sanford Job Corps now enrolling college students
SANFORD, Maine — Job Corps is at the moment enrolling youth 16 to 24 years previous, who’re inquisitive about studying profession coaching in areas resembling Automotive, Welding, Healthcare, Electrical, Culinary Arts, amongst others, by way of free coaching. Digital and on-line studying choices obtainable. Earn Excessive Faculty Diploma or Excessive Faculty Equivalency and driver’s license on the similar time. Housing and meals included at no further value. Job Placement as soon as program is full.
Name or textual content Heidi Hanson-Gillis on the Sanford Job Corps Workplace right this moment 207-852-6803 or e mail hansongillis.heidi@jobcorps.org for extra info.
GBCC 2021 Nursing Grads beat nationwide and state move charges on Licensure Examination
PORTSMOUTH — College students who graduate from the nursing program at Nice Bay Neighborhood School proceed to outperform their colleagues throughout the nation in business licensing exams.
Nice Bay nursing college students who graduated with affiliate levels in 2021 loved a move charge of 98 % for the Nationwide Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses. Statewide, the move charge was 93 %. The nationwide move charge was 79 %.
For seven of the final eight years, Nice Bay nursing college students have persistently examined above the nationwide common, with move charges between 88 % and 98 %. Primarily based in Portsmouth, the group school prepares nurses for high-demand careers in healthcare by way of a rigorous instructional program, hands-on studying, {and professional} connections throughout the Seacoast and northern New England, stated Dr. Dulcinea Kaufman, Director and Chair of the Division of Nursing at Nice Bay.
Demand for slots within the nursing program at Nice Bay is robust, mirroring regional and nationwide traits. From 2015 to 2021, Nice Bay averaged 91 certified candidates per 12 months. This 12 months, 120 college students utilized. Nationally, enrollment in nursing packages is up practically six %, in line with the American Affiliation of Faculties of Nursing.
These numbers replicate the extreme business want for certified nurses, Kaufman stated. The pandemic has bolstered the significance and worth of the nursing occupation. RNs can anticipate to earn about $75,000 yearly, in line with nationwide information, and nursing specialists earn significantly extra revenue, together with touring nurses who work at completely different areas across the nation relying on wants.
Nice Bay nursing college students haven’t any hassle touchdown good jobs. “There was a nursing scarcity for a number of years and this has solely been exacerbated by the pandemic. There are a lot of jobs open in nearly each kind of healthcare setting,” Kaufman stated.
About 80 % of Nice Bay nursing graduates keep in New Hampshire and work totally on the Seacoast in hospitals, medical workplaces, long-term care settings, with visiting-nurse businesses, and different settings.
Kaufman stated Nice Bay has earned its repute for coaching distinctive nurses, and he or she attributed the success of this system to the supportive and symbiotic relationship between the college and college students. College cheer for scholar success, and college students really feel supported all through their group school training and past, she stated.
“We have now one of many solely nursing packages in New England with an built-in curriculum that has all nursing college team-teach each nursing course,” she stated. “We all know every of the scholars as people by the point they graduate, they usually know us as nicely. We have now excessive requirements for our college students, however we additionally see them as friends that we’re mentoring of their journey to turn into nurses.”
For extra info on Nice Bay Neighborhood School, go to www.greatbay.edu.
Public enter wanted for 603 Vivid Futures survey
CONCORD — For the third consecutive 12 months, the New Hampshire Division of Schooling is proud to announce the launch of its 603 Vivid Futures Survey, a platform that gives dad and mom, educators and group members an opportunity to share their views and experiences with their respective colleges.
The objective of the 603 Vivid Futures survey is to make sure that New Hampshire colleges are offering top quality, rigorous studying experiences that meet the wants of younger learners and put together them for faculty and profession settings. It would additionally collect actionable suggestions round studying fashions, faculty local weather, household and group engagement and different subjects as a way to perceive the successes and challenges of the latest faculty 12 months and plan for the upcoming faculty 12 months.
“Public enter and suggestions is essential as we transfer past the COVID-19 pandemic, proceed to handle missed studying alternatives and concentrate on one of the best pathways to assist all college students,” stated Frank Edelblut, commissioner of training. “This survey will assist us achieve perception into varied perceptions of college and district effectiveness. All through the previous two years now we have obtained greater than 75,000 beneficial responses from constituents and educators from all throughout the state.”
The 603 Vivid Futures survey contains a possibility for anybody – dad and mom, educators or group members – to supply suggestions that shall be a beneficial supply of data to enhance colleges statewide. The survey will stay obtainable by way of April 29 to permit everybody the chance to reply. As soon as the survey closes, the outcomes shall be shared on the Division’s web site the place the general public can have an opportunity to assessment, examine and discover the assorted responses.
Survey Hyperlinks may be discovered at www.training.nh.gov or on the following hyperlinks:
Households in Okay-12, preschool and personal colleges: Household-Survey
Workers in private and non-private colleges: Workers-Survey
Neighborhood members: Neighborhood-Survey
*Please observe that “group members” are those that would not have college students enrolled in New Hampshire public colleges. Those that do ought to full the household surveys as a substitute.