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Mailboxes auctioned off
to promote Clackamas'
auto program
Both basketball
teams take the
road for playoffs
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Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Clackamas
wrestler places
5th in U.S.
Clackamas Community College
Volume XXXIII, Issue
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The Homecoming-.
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PHOTOS BY TIMOTHY A. BELL AND SARAH WELCH
2000 participants expected for Skills Contest and Job Fair
SANDY LUPO
News Editor
As many as 2000 high school
students, their teachers and
guests, and Clackamas faculty and
staff will converge on campus to­
morrow for the 22nd annual Skills
Competition, including a Work to
School Opportunity Fair.
Twenty-two public and private
high schools, from Canby to
Milwaukie and Estacada to
Wilsonville, will joust for honor,
prizes and a share of $13,500 in
scholarships from Clackamas.
When not competing, they will
have the opportunity to meet em­
ployers as diverse as Boeing, Dark
Horse Comics and Wells Fargo.
The Contest on the Web
Joint coordinators for the event,
Mindy Brown of Clackamas and
John Quiggle of Clackamas Edu­
cation Service District, have re­
ceived more than 2100 contest en­
tries in 27 skill/knowledge areas
ranging from accounting to horti­
culture to marketing.
With the 22 high school coordi-
nators/partners, Brown and
Quiggle are thrilled by the Internet
advantage they are enjoying for
the first time this year.
“The really neat thing about the
web,” Brown said, “ [is that] one
of our own students created the
web site.”
Ashley Keller, from Milwaukie
High School Tech Cadre, designed
the web site for the 2000 competi­
tion. With Jeff Linman, her faculty
advisor, Keller designed the site to
accommodate this year’s registra­
tion; to contain the full contents
of the competition catalog; and to
tally and sort contest results for
immediate release for publication.
Quiggle spoke of his delight in
the website and the competition
and noted that educational re­
search points to competitions
such as this, which enable students
to demonstrate their competency
and to be recognized for their abil­
ity, as key in building confidence
and success in students.
“The skills contest is almost a
celebration, ” Quiggle said, “of the
partnership between the students,
the high schools and the college.”
The Contests
More than 27 competitions will
demonstrate the students’ profes­
sional and technical skills as well
as their academic knowledge.
See Skills, page 3