2007 PTE Award Recipients

Information Systems Analysis—
Lewis Clark State College

Instructors:  Anita Bradley, Michael Bradley,
David McCullough, Teresa Sadorous-Kalco

T & I Department Chair:  Tim Wiggins

Dean, College of Technology:  Rob Lohrmeyer

LCSC President:  Dene K. Thomas

This program supports a total of seven industry certifications comprised of nine examinations in the AAS Degree alone.  Bachelors degrees in applied science and applied technology are also offered, and can lead to additional higher-level certifications including the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and the Cisco Certified Network Professional.

Training for positions encompassing all aspects of local and wide area network design and implementation is emphasized. The primary focus of this program is to provide an integrated set of skills which will allow the graduates to more easily enter the new technical job market which emphasizes integrated systems for voice, video, and data.

Four individuals in this program took top honors at Idaho SkillsUSA competition this year.  They took bronze, silver, and gold in Internetworking, and gold in computer maintenance technology.

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Information Technology Program—
Idaho Falls High School

Instructor:  Miles Hurley

Counselor:  Dannette Gneiting

Region 6 PTE Coordinator:  Marge Foster

Region IV Tech-Prep Coordinator:  Maureen Parks

IFHS Principal:  Randy Hurley

Superintendent:  George Boland

This program has been in existence since 1997 and continues to provide numerous options for students in the areas of networking, computer programming, web design, digital video, and computer systems.  Project-based and work-based learning are key methodologies for student learning in this single-teacher program.  Enrollment for this program is 272, including 63 young women.

Students collaborate with school faculty, business and industry partners, and community activities to troubleshoot hardware, develop websites, meet needs through electronics, earn industry certifications, and showcase their talents through a variety of competitions.  Students are continually pushing the program forward by learning, implementing, and integrating new technologies.  A number of students who graduate from this program go on to work in the IT industry.

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Maxine Bell, House of Representatives
Idaho Legislature
Joint Finance Appropriation Committee

This special recognition honors an individual who has supported and championed professional-technical education in Idaho.

Representative Maxine Bell is the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and therefore co-chair of the Joint Finance and Appropriation committee – a position she shares with Senator Cameron. In that role she has played a key role in providing the necessary funding for PTE programs. Representative Bell has always treated our requests with utmost respect and concern. She was personally responsible for replacing funding for Idaho’s Center’s for New Directions when those programs lost their federal support.

Representative Bell’s influence goes well beyond the Appropriations Committee and the legislature. She and her husband Jack operated a farm and were active in many agriculturally-related activities.  She has also had leadership roles within the American Farm Bureau Federation, serving on the Board of Directors; and within the Farm Bureau Women, serving as vice-chairperson for 18 years.

Representative Bell has also had significant international experience, participating on a trade mission to China, Japan and South Korea.  She worked with farmers in the Ukraine to teach women how to organize, lobby, and do business planning.  During that effort, she taught a number of workshops to a variety of different groups.  She also assisted in fundraising efforts to build a cannery in the Ukraine.

Representative Bell has been recognized for her efforts by the Soil Conservation Districts, Farm Bureau, CoOps, The Idaho Library Association the FFA and received the President's medallion at Idaho State University.

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America's Freedom Foundation Award—
Viking Xpress, Valley High School

Instructor:  Linda Hansing-Brock

Linda Hansing-Brock’s Family & Consumer Science Entrepreneurship program was selected as meritorious in the Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education.  This is the highest award given in 2007.  The Freedoms Foundation honors educators for their innovative efforts to help young people better understand the function and benefits of America’s private enterprise system.

Linda attended an awards ceremony in Philadelphia in March, 2007.  She received a $15,000 cash award and a commemorative plaque, and presented her project to fellow recipients and area educators.

The Honorary Chairman of the Freedoms Foundation is George W. Bush.

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