32nd Annual Skills Day Competition at CCC

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:53:29 GMT

High school students from around the county will gather at Clackamas Community College on Thursday, Feb. 25, for the 32nd annual Clackamas Regional Skills Competition. The event brings hundreds of high school students to the college to compete in academic and technical skills contests. New activities added to this year’s event include the automotive open house and hot rod show, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Automotive Department, and the reading and skit portion of the foreign language skills test. The Regional Skills Competition is a collaboration between CCC and the Clackamas Education Service District (ESD). The Skills Day competition is open to high school students in public, private, charter and home schools and offers opportunities to compete and gain information about programs at the college. The top three winners in each of the competitions will win tuition waivers for up to 12 credits at CCC. Competitions are scheduled across the campus where daytime CCC classes are canceled for Skills Day. In addition to the academic and career-technical competition, Skills Day features: • Career Expo in the Randall Gym from 8:30 a.m. to noon. • English as a second language (ESL) open house is from 9 a.m. to noon in Pauling 101. • The Senior Incentive program for high school seniors who plan to attend Clackamas in the fall takes place throughout the day. Participating seniors can earn a four-credit tuition waiver for summer 2010. The Senior Incentive program includes a 45-minute information session taking place on the hour from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Niemeyer, room 140. Students will also take placement tests or have ACT/SAT scores evaluated. • Placement testing for students who plan to attend CCC. These will take place in the Testing Center in Rook Hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Skills Day competition begins at 8:30 a.m. at CCC’s Oregon City campus and continues until 2 p.m. For more information, call Mindy Brown at 503-594-3041 or Megan Helzerman, Clackamas ESD service coordinator at 503-675-4018.