Early College and Career Education Department of Chicago Public Schools

Congrats to our Chicago Builds students!

Dunbar Vocational Career Academy's 1st Annual “Careers In The Park” was held in Dunbar Park. This event highlighted many of the skills and projects students have worked on throughout the year.

Students provided demonstrations and interacted with the community to share their experiences in CTE.

Congrats!

Over 200 Chicago Public School-CTE Students headed to Springfield, Illinois to compete in a variety of Business and IT events at The FBLA State Leadership Conference on April 4th - with many CPS students securing an opportunity to compete further at The FBLA National Conference in Orlando, Florida June 2024. There were over 1500 students in attendance from school districts throughout Illinois - students not only competed but engaged in networking events, workshops and the highly anticipated "dance off" for a little fun!

Please join us in congratulating participating CPS schools and their advisors for their dedication, commitment to academic excellence and passion for student success - Ms. Teriah Abrams (Stephen T Mather High School), Mr. Calvin Clark (Sullivan High School - Chicago, Illinois - 5th year as Advisor), Ms. Abronia Young and Ms. Tiffany Westmoreland (Curie Metropolitan High School), Dr. Grant Tedaldi and Dr. Vashti Taylor (Disney II Magnet School), Ms. Theresa Mathis (South Shore International College Prep HS- 5th year as Advisor) and Mr. Ken Jamison (Whitney M. Young Magnet High Schooley Young High School). Also in attendance for student support were many school chaperones and Troy Harrington-Meinders as a representative for CPS Central Office and a member of FBLA Board of Directors.

Check out the CPS student winners and highlights below:

Mather High School:
3rd place - Computer Problem Solving - Chris Perfecto - National Placement
4th place - Networking Infrastructure - David Luu - National Placement
6th place -Computer Game & Simulation Programming - David Sapp & Robert Andino 8th place - Mobile App Development - Kimberly Flores-Ramos & Natalia Perales
9th place - Data Analysis - Juan Saenz & Soe Tun
9th place - Website Coding & Development - Joey Villalobos
10th place -Organizational Leadership - Kyle Tran
10th place -Advertising - Ifra Qazi

Sullivan High School:
1st place - Help Desk - Oluwanifemi Onifade - National Placement
1st place - Entrepreneurship - Sumaya Mohammed - National Placement
6th place - Impromptu Public Speaking - Faidat Abass
7th place - Introduction to Business - Maxwell Jones
9th place - Computer Game and Simulation Programming - Jonathan Aiden Arango
9th place - Electronic Career Portfolio - Natalia Moreno Garcia

Curie High School (Bronze Level Champion Chapter):
7th place - Accounting 2 - Saul Moreno
8th place - Coding and Programming - Eduardo Campos
9th place - Spreadsheet Application - Christian Dunnigan
7th place - Web Design - Noel Rodriquez
5th place - Computer Applications - Dejon Wiley
8th place - Financial Statement Analysis - Bryant Johnson and Porfirio Govea
10th place - Impromptu Public Speaking - Alberto Alvarez

Disney II High School (Gold Level Champion Chapter):
2nd place - Intro to Programming - Alex Bautista - National Placement
3rd place - Website Design - Edgar Chavarria and Isis Espinoza - National Placement
3rd place - Human Resource Management - Henry Comerford - National Placement
5th place - Mobile Application Development - Andrey Damian and Ra'shad William
6th place - Data Analysis - Tian Wu
7th place - Entrepreneurship - Joaquin Murga
7th place - Computer Game and Simulation Programming - Jefhrey Chafla and Vuk Dakic
8th place - Graphic Design - Sabina Austin and Brian Johnson
8th place - Intro to Programming - Avery Coughlin
10th place - Public Service Announcement - Kayla Villareal
10th place - Web Development - Noah Castro
10th place - Community Service - Tian Wu

South Shore International High School:
4th place - Impromptu Speaking - National Placement

Whitney Young High School:
Huge kudos to Kavin Ramasamy, the 1st CPS student to be elected as a FBLA Officer!
1st place - Business Communications - Lu Lin - National Placement
2nd place - Introduction to Marketing Concepts - Sophia Aria - National Placement
3rd place - Digital Animation - Caroline Chen, Aidan Lei, Chloe Lei - National Placement
1st place - Advertising - Alijah Colon - National Placement
3rd place - Accounting 1 - Saatvik David - National Placement
2nd place - Accounting 2 - Joseph Dai - National Placement
2nd place - Economics - Marc Goldstein - National Placement
1st place - Raymond Huynh - Cyber Security - National Placement
2nd place - Database Design & Application - Kavin Ramasamy - National Placement
1st place - Impromptu Speaking - Triniti West - National Placement

Congratulations to all!

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Theodore Roosevelt High School alumni thrive in Wilbur Wright College’s Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science!

Some highlights:

Napoleon Cadiente ’23 is guaranteed to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s The Grainger College of Engineering and has been a peer tutor for the program.

Students attended the summer bridge, improving their math and saving time toward degree completion

All of them have guaranteed transfer to top universities such as UIUC’s Grainger College of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, & University of Illinois Chicago!

Happy CTE Month & Valentine's Day to our amazing teachers at Simeon Career Academy

Danyiel Selvie (Cosmetology)

Chef Brande Gilbert (Culinary)

Alante Johnson (Cosmetology)

Isiah Rowsey (Carpentry)

Joi Dickson (Teaching Academy)

On Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. ET join ACTE & Digital Promise for a LinkedIn Live event that will discuss how CTE professionals prepare students for today's workforce and incorporate global competence into their classrooms. https://bit.ly/3UzmvPf