CTE Expo

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The CTE Expo in Information technology High School is a day where freshman students come visit the Video and Web Design (the best) academy.   It's a chance where they get to see what both academies, and what they do over the course over three years. Not only that, but it gives us CTE students a chance to practice our presentation techniques and allow us to show off our apps that we have created and our skills that we've learned while being in Web Design. We also had teachers, school staff members, and people from companies with internships to observe what we have to offer in Web Design.

The objective of the expo is to give freshman students a chance to see what we have to offer in both academies that we have in Information Technology. What we did to prepare for the expo is we (juniors) built an app/game so when freshman come during the expo, they would have a chance to interact with the game, and we can talk to them on how we created it. During the expo, my fellow classmates and I were introduced to freshman students, and we were able to get a chance to tell them what they'd expect to do if they were to join the academy. We talked to them about the skills they would learn in the sophomore year such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator. Then we would talk to them about the skills they would learn in the junior year such as Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Finally, we would talk to them about the skills they would learn in the senior year such as JQuery and Finance Management. One thing that I thought went well during the expo is that we saw some freshman students that were engaged and interested in the program, and what they would be able to learn in the future. One thing that we could improve is trying to make sure that everyone gets involved in the activities, by doing treasure hunts, or making more apps/games. Overall it was a very good experience.


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