On the Horizon for the Consortium!
Skills Center Branch Campuses throughout the consortium – focusing on high-demand, high-wage career fields such as healthcare, engineering, transportation and information technology.
Collaborating with business, industry, and area colleges to provide additional dual-credit opportunities and a seamless transition to post-secondary education, training and employment.
| In Appreciation and Recognition for outstanding contributions to students and programs: | |
Co-Teachers of the Year Fred Treadwell & Hilary Mayhan Automotive Technology Instructors Bellevue High School |
Support Person of the Year Amy Anderson Career Specialist Mount Si High School |
In 2006, the NEVAC member districts (Bellevue, Issaquah, Lake Washington, Mercer Island, Northshore, Riverview and Snoqualmie Valley) were commissioned by OSPI to conduct a feasibility study into the need for skills center programs in the NE King County area of Washington State. The Legislature provided funding to look into ways to increase access to rigorous high-demand, high-wage career preparation programs for students. They were looking for ‘innovative models’ for delivering instruction to students in rural and high-density areas of the state.
In the feasibility study completed for the NE King County region, it was determined that a “system of branch campuses” would provide better access to the students in this high-density region of the state than the traditional skills center model of a single core facility. This model was enthusiastically endorsed by Legislators, business, industry and education partners.
A collaboration with Lake Washington Technical College (LWTC) is the front-runner of this branch campus model. LWTC is currently designing an Allied Health facility on their Kirkland campus, and have invited us to add a skills center administration center and allied health programming facilities to their plans. Once again, this unprecedented partnership was enthusiastically received by Legislators as an outstanding model for collaboration between secondary and post-secondary education – providing a seamless transition for students from high school to post-secondary education, and saving millions of taxpayer dollars (by not building a separate facility for the skills center).
Future collaborations with business, industry and our post-secondary partners will be sought as we move forward in developing our model to bring high-quality career preparation programs to the students. Please stay tuned for future updates!
8th Annual Seattle Roadster Show
The Lake Washington High School Collision Repair and Refinishing / NEVAC class entered five vehicles and constructed a display for the "8th Annual Seattle Roadster Show", a nationally recognized display and competition for Hot Rods and Custom vehicles held in the Seattle Quest Field Events Center March 2nd,3rd and 4th. Among the three hundred entrants on display, the Roadster show included some of the nation's finest custom cars. The show drew over 40,000 spectators in its three day run.
Collision Repair and Refinishing students placed and won a total of five trophies and a great sense of accomplishment. Participants invested many hours working on, preparing and showing their vehicles. Students involved where outstanding representatives of Lake Washington High School and NEVAC. We should all be proud of the job they did in representing LW and NEVAC. I am proud of what they accomplished and the grace they demonstrated doing it.
Show Class
High School Challenge
3rd Place Mike Moran
4th Place Ronni Zonnefeld
Honorable Mention Brandon Sutter
Honorable Mention David Redding
Honorable Mention Dan Hazan
Milo Dullum - Instructor
Health Science Careers
2006NEVAC currently offers Health Sciences Careers and Biotechnology programs in several member districts. Recognizing the immediate health care personnel shortage, NEVAC is charged with increasing options for students who desire training in the career field of Health Sciences;. Read more...
Biotech Expo 2006
March 2006NEVAC Biotech students participated in the Student Biotech Expo on March 6, 2006 along with over 300 students from around the state. Below is a list of winners from Juanita HS in the Lake Washington School District, Shorecrest HS and Shorewood HS in the Shoreline School District. Read more...
7th Annual Seattle Roadster Show
March 2006Lake Washington High School/NEVAC Collision Repair & Refinishing instructor Milo Dullum, along with eighteen of his students participated for the sixth year in the Seattle Roadster Show. The class entered the show on two fronts this year: five students displayed their own vehicles set in a “Day on the Beach” theme. In another part of the Quest Field Exhibition Center students where involved in the “Monster Build Live” challenge.. Read more...
2005 Pro-Start Culinary Student of the Year State of Washington
March 2005
Mount Si High School is proud to announce that senior student Jerry Weathers was named the Washington State Restaurant Association Culinary Pro-Start Student of the Year for 2005. This distinguished honor was bestowed upon Jerry at the 2005 Hospitality invitation, known as the Boyd Culinary Cup because of the sponsorship by Boyd’s Coffee. Read more..
Carpentry/Building Construction Program
October 2004This year is the 30th anniversary of the Edmonds School District and the Lynnwood Rotary Foundation house-building project. Since 1975, students from the Edmonds, Shoreline, Bellevue, Lake Washington, and Northshore School Districts have built or remodeled homes to meet and exceed industry standards. These homes stand as proof of quality hands-on-training. Read more..
Senator Maria Cantwell Visits KMIH/X104 and Mercer Island High School
May 28th, 2004In an effort to protect KMIH and other "Super-powered Class D" FM stations, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) toured KMIH's studios and gave a brief speech Read more..
Exemplary Program Recognition
October 2002The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education has selected the NEVAC High Tech Learning Centers from 170 nominations as one of seven candidates for national recognition as an Exemplary Career and Technical Education Program. Read more...