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Paqe 8 The INDEPENDENT, April 18, 2001 HS technology curriculum updated for employment standards Revamping the technology program at Banks High School to prepare students to partici pate fully in the technological world of today and tomorrow is the goal of an advisory team that presented their conclu sions to the school board at the April ninth meeting. Studies by the Oregon Em ployment Department indicate that future opportunities for Banks students depend upon having a solid foundation in the applications of computer skills. Gary Hartman, director of the Technology/Assessment De partment, said that the commit tee had established a goal ‘Io provide every student with ex posure to the core area” of technology skills. The advisory team, com posed of teachers and admin istrators from BHS, community members active in the high- tech industry and a Portland Community College consultant, analyzed the current curricu lum. Strengths included key boarding at the junior high lev el, current course offerings, and teacher involvement in en hancing their skills. Areas iden tified for improvement included the need to revise standards, including databases and spread sheets in the curriculum, in creased exploration of career opportunities at both the intro ductory and advanced level, and increasing enrollment of girls in computer classes. After discussion of industry needs and standards for entry- level positions and examination of a variety of documents, the team developed a proposed twelfth grade technology stan dard. Foundation skills are in tegrated into required courses and a new course, “Computer Technology Concepts,” will be developed. The new course would introduce students to both theory and application in database development, enter prise systems, network design and administration, software engineering, technical support and writing, and web design and administration. If ap proved, the course will be intro duced in 2001-02, with a rec ommendation that it be a grad uation requirement beginning in 2005. The team also recom mended revisions and addi tions to elective courses, and expansion of current offerings to better prepare students to enter the workforce. Hartman introduced four students from the InfoTech pro gram currently in operation. Info Tech provides students an opportunity to participate in on- the-job training in information technology. Students Graham Linn and Rory Young unveiled the district’s new web site. Webmasters Linn and Young are responsible for the layout and content as well as building and maintaining the site. They work closely with district ad ministrators, especially super intendent Marilyn McGlasson. McGlasson said that Linn and Young have created an excel lent web site and done a great job of turning ideas into reality. The site includes general in formation about the district and each school, job openings, a map, State Report Cards and lots of additional information. The students have been focus ing on developing and main taining an eventsecalendar for each school. Future plans for the site include developing teacher, sports and club pages. The site is online at www.banks.k12.or.us Students Kelly Zietz, Colin Douglas and Nick Mailer are responsible for the front line of technical support in the district. These highly trusted students provide maintenance and up grades for all 300+ devices in the district. They fix problems in hardware and software, in struct teachers and other stu dents in ways to avoid prob lems, and set-up and adminis trate the network. All support issues are first directed to these students. They are avail able daily in the elementary and high school and every oth- er day in the junior high. 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Character Counts students for the fourth six weeks are: Shea Rue, Kyle Braukman, Abigail Hardie, Justin Miller, Chelsea Mathews, Mitchell Arias, Kelvin Applebee, Andrew Jimenez, Sean Goplen, Nicole Purvis, Alicia Duyck, Amanda King, Stephanie Case, Brad Mark ham, Jordan Tijerina, Stepha nie Kuiper, Elise Button, Tess King and Sarah Vanderzanden. Tammy Schraeder, Oregon’s winner of the 2000 Elementary Teacher of Mathmatics and Science was also honored. Lee said that 110 students have signed up to participate in the Science and Technology Fair, May 3. Academic Excellence week, March 12 - 16, at Banks High School was highlighted by two events. Cranial Pursuit finals were won by the teacher team, ably opposed by the winning student team. The National Honor Society inducted Se niors Heather Bays, Rose Strassel, Shauna Ness, Chel sea Larson, Allen Herinckx and Scott Jansen; Juniors Kristen Wilhelm, Pasapong “Pup” Ga- monwet and Evgeniya Verov- skaya; Sophomores Michelle Dickinson, Leah Orlowski, Gre tchen Bayless and Bruce Duy ck; Freshman Krista Donoven, Megan Jurasek, Rachel Partin, Jared Hatch and Danielle Van- dehey. Ted Faro, Banks Junior High Principal, congratulated three students for their efforts in the annual poster contest spon sored by Metro and AK Media for Earth Day. From a field of 1800 entries, Ryan Evers and Ashley Dudley were selected as finalists and Jessica Reser received an honorable mention for her poster of a lightbulb containing the earth and the slogan “Recycling, It’s a bright idea!” Faro also congratulated Josh Williams and Ban Wil liams for their first place finish es in state wrestling competi tion. 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