ATCC Students Attend CTE Day at Arkansas Capitol

CommunityOzark Campus Photographed: (front row, left-to-right) Jaime Land, ATU director of government relations; Scott Pullen, Arkansas Tech Career Center instructor of construction technology; Dr. Sheila R. Jacobs, Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus chancellor; Ross White, Arkansas Department of Education director of career and technical education; Bella Edrington, ATCC welding student; Timothy Hamilton, ATCC construction technology student; Cody Patterson, ATCC instructor of welding technology; Bill Mizaur, ATCC director; (back row, left-to-right) Keith Williams, ATCC instructor of automation technology; Owen Hess, ATCC automation student; Nathan Sanborn, ATCC automation student; and Tyler Walker, ATCC construction technology student. Students at Arkansas Tech Career Center visited the Arkansas State Capitol for Career and Technical Education Day on Tuesday, Feb. 3. CTE students from across Arkansas came together at the Capitol to share their work and celebrate accomplishments in career and technical education throughout the state. Five students from Arkansas Tech Career Center were selected to represent ATCC by presenting school projects and sharing how the CTE programs are preparing them for life after high school. Construction technology students Tyler Walker and Timothy Hamilton, seniors from Dardanelle High School, partnered together to represent their program. Walker shared how ATCC has helped prepare him for the workforce. “ATCC gives us a foot in the door by l...