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5 News TI he ClAckAMAS P rint WEdNEsdAy, FEbRUARy 25, 2000 Skills: Celebration to be held in gym Continued from page 1 DIANA SCRIVNER / Clackamas Print Ron Covell, nationally known for his auto body skills, demonstrates how to form, shape and weld metal panels for Wayne Austen’s "How to build a hot rod" class Feb 14. Nationally known auto body professional visits Clackamas vites many professionals - people who are in the business of building cars - to his class. He received a flyer about Covell coming to town, so he called him to see if he would speak to the class. Austen often invites profession als to his class to talk about every thing that students need to know about building a hot rod; where to find new and used parts, paint and body work, heating and air condi tioning, suspension, glass, and many other topics. The class also takes at least one field trip each term to an auto body shop. While atClackamas, Covell taught a three hour class sharing his own personal tips with students. He also demonstrated how to form, shape and weld metal panels. “It was really a fun evening,” said Austen. “He (Covell) said he’d love to come back next year.” DIANA SCRIVNER Associate News Editor Ron Covell, nationally known auto body professional, teacher and columnist for Street Rodder maga zine, came to Clackamas to teach a workshop for automotive students. Students in Wayne Austen’s “How to build a hot rod” class had the opportunity to meet Covell on February 14. Covell is nationally known for pounding metal into street rods, and for the workshops that he teaches throughout the na tion. Covell, whose ;hometown is in Freedom, California (between Santa Cruz and Monterey), was in town teaching workshops and to attend the Portland Rod and Custom show. At the show he demonstrated and sold tools of his own design. Throughout the term, Austen in- h X M Pivi I IJijbk Students will be judged fortheir psychomotor skills,.their problem solving techniques, their precise dexterity, their rhythmicalcoordi- nation, and their endurance, states the event catalog., An engineering competition is offered this year for the first time, and competitors will “design and build the lightest bridge that can support the greatest load over a 30 cm span.” The computer science competi tion includes a second contest, open to all students— an Internet scavenger hunt! Contestants will have 30 minutes to find trivia facts on the web, and may begin their searches between 9 and 11:30 a.m. More than 90 works of art have been submitted for the art compe tition. The high school students’ drawings, paintings, ceramic cre ations, photographs and sculp tures comprise the next art exhibit at the Pauling Gallery, and may be viewed from tomorrow to March 16. Graphic design students will compete to create the logo that will be used throughout the next 12 months as the symbol for the 2001 Clackamas Regional Skills Compe tition. This year’s logo, the leam-ed and multi-skilled octopus, was de signed last year by graphic design contestant Lisa Zednik, then a sophomore at Gladstone High School. The logo has been worked into gold, silver and bronze pins for this competition’s top winners. music to hair styling, will be present at the fair beginning at 8 a.m. Celebration About 200 competition winners, instructors and guests are ex pected at the Recognition Cer emony at 7:30 p.m. Mon., March 13, in Randall Gym. Part of the en tertainment will be a movie filmed throughout the competition tomor row, and produced, edited and pre sented by the video class at Gladstone High School. The Fair Details The Opportunity Fair, which will take place in Randall Gym from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., was organized by Ethel Swanson, head of the One Stop Career Center at Clackamas, and Len Eaton, School-to-Work System Consultant for the Clacka mas County ESD, the Employers will answer ques tions about careers in arts and com munication; industry and engineer ing; business and management; the health services; natural resources; and human resources. Professionals representing 50 occupations, from construction to The skills competitions and Op portunity Fair are open to the pub lic, and will utilize all the buildings on the central campus, as well as Clairmont Hall and the Training Center. The information center, at Community Center 127, opens at 8:15 a.m. and contests begin at 9 a.m. The event will end at 2 p.m. Full information about the compe tition, to include schedules and descriptions of all the contests and other events, is available at www.techcadre.com/skills2000. Contest results will be posted on the website after 12 noon Friday. Print staff to national conference JOHN THORBBRN rditor-in-Cliih' Members ofthegClackamas Print staff will be traveling north to the Emerald City tomorrow afternoon to attend the Associated Collegiate Press’ 16lh National College News- paper Convention in Seattle. Eight editors and their advisor, Linda Vogt, will take part in the three-day event that includes work said Vogt, who is in her 15fc yearas shops, guest speakers and panels. advisor of the student newspaper. “This staff has kind of been bn the One of the discussion panels is cal led, “The Big Story: Student hot seat from day one of fall term. Reporters Share Success Stories [This staff] has had to deal with and Problems,” a topic that has some very difficult issues*^’ I come into play for this year’s staff, The Print will be entered into the according to Vogt. 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