Board Report Tammy Pompeo May 2009

Web Page Design

Jayson Janzen, Arron McClain and Ever Coss worked as a team to create a website for the Microsoft bliink web design contest. The site is entitled “I Imagine my Future”. They competed against other high school students from across the state. They’ve worked really hard and won 3^rd place in the contest. They will each be receiving an 8 GB Zune and $100 Visa gift card for their efforts. Currently students are working on personal web pages as their final assignment for the class.

Graphic Arts

This past month we worked on Solarization projects, animated gifs, and motivational posters. They displayed their work from the year at the Art Expo hosted by Mrs. Massey.

Computer Applications

Students continued to work on the different phases of their Teen Entrepreneur business plan. Including: the company description, logo and tagline creation, description of products and services, market analysis, business card and letterhead creation, marketing plan, introductory promotional letter, brochure, newspaper advertisement, owner’s resume and executive summary. The students will compile their entire business plan with corrections to present to the class as their final project.

Keyboarding/Basic Computers

The majority of the students in the class have successfully reached their goal of a keying speed of at least 35 words per minute. They continue to try to improve their speed and accuracy. This month we’ve worked on meeting document formatting. We’ve also used online graphic tools and Photoshop Elements to create magazine covers and other fun graphic projects. The students are currently finishing up a “Fast Forward 10 Years” PowerPoint assignment they will present to the class so that we can see where everyone thinks they’ll be and what they’ll be doing in 10 years.

Photography

Each of the students copyrighted, printed and framed two original photographs for the Art Expo held at the end of April. In addition they continued to take and edit photos for their Photography Portfolio they are compiling using iPhoto on the iMacs. This will be their final project for the year.

Business Ownership

Students continued the Financial Planning course. We have covered budgeting, income and expenses, good debt and bad debt, using credit wisely, and keeping their money safe and secure using checking or savings accounts through banks or credit unions.

Business Professionals of America (BPA)

We will be holding an organization awards dessert banquet during May to recognize the hard work of the members of the various organizations. At this banquet all members of the BPA chapters will be recognized. Unfortunately due to the “swine flu” National BPA conference had to be cancelled.