Special shoutout to some of our ACTC Students for volunteering at the Caterpillar 5K!
"Ag Power students have been hard at work building the panels that will be part of our new hog traps. Students designed a fabrication jig from an old shop table to make perfectly square panels every time without having to clamp anything down. The cutting crews learned about setting up stops to make repetitive cuts accurately, and the guys all learned about how teamwork makes everything work much smoother.
I’m super proud of the hard work these young men and ladies have put into making this project a success. It won’t be long now until ACTC is trapping ferrel hogs for the public. If you or someone you know has an issue in the area, come by and see us at ACTC and we will discuss fixing the problem. Hurry before the wait gets longer." -Mr. Rodney Fagan
Thanks to The U.S. Army, SFC Thomas and SSG Blasengame for spending the day with our ACTC Students!
ACTC is very proud of our FFA Students for their successful finish at the Northeast Federation Contest.
Parlimentary Procedure team finished 2nd. Team members were: Jaden Hodge, Jacob Spencer, Trinity Martin, Joshua Mullins, Eva Wallace, & Madlyn Davis.
Kaleb Holman competed in Extemporaneous Public Speaking. He placed 3rd.
Kenslei Baswell competed in National Creed. She finished 1st in the county and 3rd in Federation.
All of these individuals will compete at the District Level in March.
Thank you to Bryan Westbrook, with The State Fire Marshal’s Office, for coming to ACTC and speaking to the second year classes of Law & Public Safety and Industrial Maintenance about career opportunities in those fields!
After lessons on Fall Crops, Ag Natural Students decorated ACTC for Fall! Thank you for your hard work, it looks great!
The Ag Power 1st year students have been working hard on the Maintenance unit and what better way to discuss maintenance of an irrigation system than to actually install an automatic irrigation system in our greenhouse? This is an awesome opportunity for some cross curricular integration with our Ag and Natural Resources class!
Soon we will be state of the art in terms of irrigation!
ACTC FFA students attended a training session hosted by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture & Commerce today as the first steps towards getting started trapping wild hogs. This is part of the grant our center received recently to partner with MDAC and local land owners that have problems with ferrel hogs. Students will be building these traps in the shop and soon they will be hitting the woods to help combat the problems in our state.
"It’s always a pleasure to work with amazing young people, and these guys never disappoint! If you or someone you know has a ferrel hog problem, give us a call and we can put you on the list to come out and see what we can do."-Mr. Fagan
ACTC FFA is selling Fruit! Be sure to see an ACTC FFA Member to place your order!
ACTC would like to highlight these fantastic students for being chosen as Student of the Quarter for their programs. These students were selected by their instructors for being hardworking, kind, motivated, and overall great students!
ACTC Law and Public Safety Students want to thank Corinth Fire Department for hosting a fun and informative tour of the Fire Department last week!
Congratulations to Brody Hajek, ACTC's Rotary Student! We are proud of you and all of your accomplishments!
Carpentry Students hard at work on our display case. We can't wait to see the finished product!
Check out the t-shirt launcher made by our awesome industrial maintenance students!
ACTC wants to highlight our two fantastic Directors for Boss's Day! Mr. Anderson and Mr. Boren are both kind and excellent leaders. We appreciate all they do to make ACTC great! Happy Boss's Day to two of the best!
50's Day at KES was a hit! Thank you for inviting our BMF and Engineering Students to host such a fun event!
ACTC Ag students participated in the Mississippi State Fair Ag Expo, and had a great time sharing their knowledge about agriculture with others. We are so proud of our future leaders.
Before the break, Career Coach Lewis arranged Information Technology classes to tour the National Guard Armory. During the tour, recruiter Kevin Bollig mentioned that there are over 130 different job opportunities available within the National Guard and not all of them have to do with guns and fighting. Students came back to class and researched the many different career opportunities available within the National Guard…specifically jobs related to technology. Students then searched for IT jobs in the National Guard and found many job opportunities from the east coast to the west as well as opportunities as close to home as Tupelo. Then, they learned about resume writing and completed a resume just in case they decided to apply for one of those jobs. Mrs. Greene and her students talked about how cool it would be to move across the country and start a career. They also talked about how comforting it might be to obtain a job close to home.
Yesterday kicked off clinical for ACTC'S Educator Preperation Students! Each Ed Prep student was so excited to meet their mentor teachers and classes at Alcorn Central Elementary School.
ACTC would like to highlight our fantastic Health Sciences Instructor, Mrs. Tila Johnson for Emergency Room Nurses Week. Not only is Mrs. Tila a fantastic instructor in the classroom, she is an outstanding ER Nurse at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Nurses are heroes for our community, and we are thankful to have her in our local hospital as well helping to shape our community's future health care professionals in her classroom!
