School News – Academy of the Canyons News

COC Summer Advanced Manufacturing & Welding Camp

jcubbage — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:47:21 +0000

College of the Canyons has a summer camp opportunity for students who will be entering grades 10^th – 12^th in the fall 2015.

Advanced Manufacturing & Welding Camp

Let COC expert instructors guide you though a journey into the world of working with metal. Campers will work in a real live welding & metal fabrication laboratory using many of today’s common welding process in addition to taking part in interactive entrepreneurial building activities each day.

Students will cut, drill, and shape metal into various projects using equipment such as drill presses, metal lathes, horizontal mills, plasma cutters and more!

Assigned metal projects will be completed using acquired skills in conjunction with specified welding & cutting and fabrication equipment. Safety training is included and all related personal equipment will be furnished.

A great track for someone who may be considering a career in Manufacturing.

Dates: July 20th – July 24th, 2015
Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: College of the Canyons, Welding and Metal Fabrication Laboratories
Cost: $195, includes tuition, t-shirt, lunches for all 5 days & two field trips

Go to http://www.canyons.edu/Offices/CommunityEducation/Pages/Advanced-Manufacturing-and-Welding-Camp.aspx for more information and registration.

Summer Internship at KHTS AM 1220 due 5/30

jcubbage — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:32:24 +0000

KHTS AM 1220 radio and news station in Santa Clarita is looking for summer interns who are interested in photography and writing for our online news publication. KHTS has the most widely circulated local daily newsletter in the Santa Clarita Valley, with more than 28,000 readers. Interns are given the opportunity to contribute real news writing with personalized by-lines to our award winning website. We offer flexible hours, and education is always the top priority.

In addition to professional experience, we offer our interns workshops in news writing, search engine optimization, photojournalism, feature writing, event coverage and skills to communicate with community leaders, public figures, teachers, law enforcement, emergency responders, artists and more.

Some requirements are:
·Interest in news, journalism, video, and/ or photography.
·Some Knowledge about the Santa Clarita Valley.
·Excitement to meet new people and share the stories of our community in the Santa Clarita Valley.
·Motivation to learn new skills and contribute to the station.
·Willingness to cover events out of the normal 9-5 shift, i.e. weekends, evenings.
·Willingness to cover a variety of stories, i.e. news, features, news releases, events, breaking news, politics, sports.
·Experience in writing, journalism, video, and/ or photography.

Apply by May 30, 2015:
Email: jobs@hometownstation.com with a resume and writing and/or photography portfolio.

National College Fair Tour in LA 4/30

jcubbage — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:59:31 +0000

National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) is one of the biggest college fairs in the country. They are in Los Angeles on April 30th.

Location:
Pasadena Convention Center
Exhibit Hall A & B
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
626/793-2122

Fair Hours:
Thursday, April 30, 2015
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Go to http://www.nacacnet.org/college-fairs/SpringNCF/Pages/Los-Angeles.aspx for more information and a list of schools attending.

Help get Project 691 Robotics to World Championships!

jcubbage — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:51:27 +0000

Congratulations! Project 691 Robotics, a student-led mentor-guided competitive robotics team in the William S. Hart District which consists of high school students from AOC and all over the district, has been accepted to go to the FIRST Robotics Competition World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri from April 22 to 25. The students have spent the last three months working tirelessly to design, build, and improve their 2015 robot, “Operation: NIGHTHAWK,” and their efforts are finally about to take flight.

To financially support as many team members as possible to take part in this culmination of their hard work, the team has started a GoFundMe campaign at www.gofundme.com/691champstrip . If you or anyone you know could donate to the campaign, the students at Project 691 would greatly appreciate any and all contributions you could make towards this effort. For more information, please contact the team at business@team691.org, and for regular team updates please follow their faceBook page at http://www.facebook.com/team691 .

Additionally, here is a link to a video about the team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xg7fWruCOc&feature=youtu.be .

UCI Summer Surgery Program–Apply Now

jcubbage — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:28:13 +0000

The UCI Summer Surgery Program (click for flyer) offers two, two-week intense sessions for mature high school students at least 16 years old who have excelled academically. This elite program allows students to gain hands-on experience in the fields of surgery and medicine.

The dates for each session:
Session I: July 6 to July 17, 2015
Session II: July 20 to July 31, 2015 (room and board available for out-of-town/ international students)

Applications will be accepted beginning March 1, 2015 – don’t wait!

“Summer Surgeons” or talented high school students who qualify for our program, will have the opportunity to:

*Observe live surgical cases
*Gain hands-on experience with our state-of-the-art da Vinci robot
*Learn actual surgical skills in open, laparoscopic and robotic surgery through surgical skills workshops
*Become proficient and certified in Basic Life Support training and CPR
*Work in the UC Irvine Medical Education Simulation Center, a four-story center that includes a full-scale operating room, emergency room trauma bay, obstetrics suite and critical care unit
*Perform in-depth fetal pig dissection with an emphasis on the types of surgical cases the students will see in the operating room
*Interact and learn with a highly motivated team of surgical faculty, medical students and undergraduate students at all levels of training.

Given the intimacy of the program and nature of the instruction, tuition is $3,950 per student. Room and Board is offered for students from our of the area for Session II only; tuition including room and board is $5,250 per student.

Don’t wait to apply, as spots will fill quickly! Space is limited to 24 students per session.

To apply for UC Irvine’s Summer Surgery Program, students must be at
least 16 years old, have a minimum GPA of 3.5, and be currently enrolled
in high school (2015 senior graduates welcome).

To apply to the Summer Surgery Program please visit http://www.urology.uci.edu/education_summersurgery.shtml