Published: April 14, 2007 12:54 pm            

Students attend conference

Students from Puterbaugh Middle School and McAlester High School joined 1,200 middle, junior and senior high school students from across the state at the annual Oklahoma Technology Student Association Leadership and Career Development Conference.

The 2007 TSA State Conference was held April 3-5 at the Oklahoma City state fairgrounds. “The students prepared hard for this competition. We were proud to have six out of the 10 students competing place in the top 10 in state,” Raymond Wilson said.

Technology education has come a long way since 1978 when the American Industrial Arts Students Association, the national student organization supporting industrial arts, started with four chapters and 96 members in Oklahoma.

Today, that CareerTech program is known as Technology Education and has a student organization, the Technology Student Association. More than 20,000 middle and junior high school students are members of more than 200 chapters across Oklahoma.

At the spring conference, 72 competitive events ranging from computer-aided drafting, radio control transportation, aerospace technology, and structural engineering focus on the TSA goals of preparing young Oklahomans to cope with technological changes, to build leadership skills, and explore career choices.

Here are the results from the conference:

Puterbaugh Middle School:

• Brittney Newman, Caren Wilson, and Destiny Sennett Placed fourth in the Marine Design Challenge.

• Seth Sipe Placed seventh in Electrical Challenge.

High School Results:

• Laurissa Wilson placed eighth in Imaging Technology.

• Chris Skinner placed eighth in Oklahoma T-Shirt Design and tenth in Dragster Design.

        

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