CTE Program Celebration Informational Technology

 Week 2 of the CTE Celebration Month is informational technology. The jobs that are a part of the information technology CTE program include:

• Graphic designer

• Web designer

• Prepress technician

• Bookkeeper

• Medical biller/coder

• Payroll specialist

• General manager

• Event planner

• Preschool teacher

• Teacher assistant

• Network and computer administrator

The Business Management program has three certificates, which include: event management, retail management, and small business management. These management degrees were created in 2016 after the program was started. 

The informational technology job wages are:

• Graphic designers - $57,542

• Web designer s- $50,300

• Prepress technician - $45,073

• Bookkeeping - $44,336

• Medical biller/coder - $52,697

• Payroll specialist - $48,750

• General manager - $ 72,100

• Event manager - $41,717

• Preschool teacher - $ 33,246

• Teacher assistant - $33,470

• Network and computer system administer - $87,201

Michelle Hayes is an accounting technology major at LBCC. What made her go into LBCC’s Career and Technical Education program is that she has always loved numbers. That helped her be able to work in any field that she was looking into when she completes her accounting technology degree. 

Due to COVID, the program has been harder in that there are pros and cons. One of the pros of the program during Covid is how much instructors are helping, and one of the cons is that it's online. 

The biggest challenge is not being able to be in person, Hayes said. The biggest highlight is working with numbers and learning and making new friends along the way. 

The benefits of joining the CTE program include learning about the classes that are for accounting majors, and she can be certified in QuickBooks online and help her skills in Microsoft. 

Some information for future CTE students that Michelle shared: “Stay motivated and don't give up, because the teachers in this will support and help you in any way possible.” 

CTE program celbration at Linn Benton Community College

 

The Career and Technical Education celebration is this month. CTE is an LBCC program that helps students that are in the program get linked to employers in the regen for their career. They also help prepare them for high-wage and high-demand careers. CTE is also emphasizing problem-solving, creativity, teamwork and critical-thinking skills. 

The CTE celebration first started in 2017 and the first national CTE “signing day” was in 2015 where the president of the CTE program Greg Hamann invited LBCC to come back the following year and present. 

How the college selects students that are going into the CTE program is what they call “first-come, first-served” because they know that it's competitive and a lot of students want to be in the CTE program. 

During CTE Month, the first week of February focuses on health care programs. The health care programs that are a part of the CTE are:

• Dental assistant

• Diagnostic imaging

• Exercise and sport science

• Medical assistant

• Nursing

• Nursing assistant

• Occupational therapy assistant

• Phlebotomy

• Public health

• Sleep technology

• Surgical technician

The typical wages that the health care CTE program students can earn in their jobs are:

• Dental assisting - $48,358

• Occupational therapy assistant - $65,167

• Diagnostic imaging - $76,777

• Medical assistant - $41,007

• Medical coding and reimbursement - $52,762

• Nursing - $94,950

• Surgical technology - $59,762

• Phlebotomy - $42,717

• Sleep technician - $52,697

• Nursing assistant - $ 35,884

The signing day this year will be completely virtual over Zoom on April 15 from 9-10 am. There will be pre-recorded sessions from presenters and some live presentations in breakout rooms. The Zoom link will be posted on the website when the date is closer. 

Covid has affected the CTE program in many ways, including how many things are virtual and it has been hard for most of the programs. The programs that were doing projects and labs and more in-person are now presenting instruction over Zoom, along with in-person lab sessions.

Tirah Rich is a diagnostic imaging student who is getting her associate degree in science but focusing on diagnostic imaging. She knew she wanted to be a part of the CTE program when she was little, when she wanted to go into radiology, and it had a high pass rate and was more affordable. She’s in a two-year program that learns all the information for a four-year program in a two-year program. 

Covid has made her program harder in some ways. The program was already set up with some online classes. The only thing that COVID has affected is the restriction on how many people can be in the lab at a time and the communication between the students so that they can help each other with the work where they need help. 

The biggest challenge to the CTE program is not having enough time, she said. Rich said the program isn’t easy because whenever you have extra time after doing the main assignments then you are reviewing and studying the material in order to do well. The biggest highlight is the connections with the peers and staff. Even with the pandemic the staff and students find a way to get connected to study together. 

The biggest benefit of the CTE program is joining an open door to other opportunities. LBCC is helping the students find the right universities for where they want to go for a career. In the health care portion of the CTE program due to covid, the nursing students are helping administer the COVID vaccine. 

At a glance:

What: Celebration of CTE

When: The month of February

Where: Linn-Benton Community College campus

What are the weeks of celebrations: Feb. 1-7: health care; Feb. 8- 14: information technology; Feb. 15- 21: industrial and manufacturing; Feb. 22-28: agriculture and culinary programs

Website: www.linnbenton.edu/about-lbcc/news/oregon-celebrates-cte-month.php

The Protest of Salam

 During the salam Oregon protest, there was a man called the prayer man who was at the protest who was going to be there from sunrise to sunset just praying. He was the only one there who was praying in front of the capital during the protest. He said “I committed to god to be here today no matter what.” he was praying to get the energy out there into the world. He thought that God sent him to the capital to be there for a purpose. 

He couldn’t see the big picture but he was doing what was asked from god. The prayer man thought that it was important to have a relationship with God. “ men are not perfect” he said. He said that because you have to rely on your own dependent. The prayer man thought that if you have a relationship with God then you know when people are deceiving you and being misleading towards you. 

The prayer man thought that mobs aren’t apart of christ because christ is a small voice, not a big voice that everybody hears. The prayer man was praying for the peace of the country so we are not divided by hate and fear. “ the united states is a united body.” the prayer man’s family was on the pay flower. Apart from the Minnesota cowboys, he was also part of Cherokee and some of his family were the first Mormons that were in the united states. 

Before the prayer man was at the capital god told him what to bring to the protest and that was candles and the American flag and God told him what to do during the protest. He fasted for a few prior to the protest. The prayer man was there from sunrise to sunset just praying in front of the capital, 

The prayer man wasn’t there for himself he was there for god to help people heal from this hate and fear that has been happening in the country. He wanted to concentrate the ground of the capital so people who would stand on the ground of the capital would feel peace. All the prayer man wanted was to bring peace. 

COVID-19 Vaccine

 When LBCC staff member Paul Tannahill got COVID-19  and did test positive in November, his symptoms were just congestion and headaches. His symptoms only lasted a week and a couple of days. Today he is fine and healthy and has no symptoms. He hasn't gotten the COVID vaccine.  

With COVID-19 there is a whole spectrum of COVID and he was on the lower spectrum of the COVID cases. Paul Tannahill said he is at high risk because of three separate reasons: 1. He's in his 50’s; 2. He has high blood pressure; and 3. He has hypertension. 

What he helped him get through COVID, he said, was focusing on how he felt every hour. He said, “Something to keep in mind, you are far more likely to live through it and you are far more likely to have small symptoms.” 

The symptoms of COVID-19 have a far variety from headaches to no sense of taste or smell and fever. In Oregon alone, the number of people who have passed away from covid is 1.891 and in the united states, there have been 420,000 people who have died from covid. 

According to the CDC, you can't get the virus after you get your rounds of the vaccine. The side effects of the vaccine are like the flu and it might affect your everyday activities. The symptoms could be pain and swelling in the injection spot. The symptoms throughout the body are chills, tiredness, fever, and headache. 

Talking to Ammon and Emily Lujan, who are nurses in Utah who are COVID nurses when COVID first came around, the main symptoms that determine if a person has COVID or the flu is if they have any smell or taste or not or any constant headaches. These symptoms are the main signs that you have covid

When they took the vaccine, Ammon was feeling a severe headache for three days on the first shot, and on the second shot, he felt soreness on his left arm. Emily's symptoms after the injection were that her arm was sore where she got the shot and she felt aches and pains in her joints during the first shot, and during the second shot, she was feeling like she was more tired and felt like she had flu symptoms for a week and some head pressure. 

Ammon is feeling no symptoms today, but Emily is still feeling today that her lymph nodes in her arm are still swollen. Ammon’s worst side effects symptoms were headaches and Emily's joint pain. 

When the pandemic first arrived in Utah, they said, cases were minimal but since Utah doesn’t initially implement lockdowns or restrictions there are more covid patients and the hospital that Emily and Ammon work at and the sister hospital are both filled up all the covid beds. 

Emily said that “COVID is like Russian roulette because the spectrum was so wide,” Emily Lujan said.  

Since COVID’s arrival in the United States, a lot of new treatments have started including more steroids for patients who are more severe; vitamins for the less severe COVID patients; plasma from donors who had COVID has been beneficial; people who have covid they get blood clouts very easily so they get blood thinners to reduce that risk, chest physical therapy, exercise is proven to help them get over COVID, and sleeping on their stomach helps as well. 

introduction blog

 My name is Chrissy Veach and I'm a sophomore in college-going towards my art degree. What prompted me to enroll in this course is honestly rob and helping me figure out what I want to do with my life, I was in his class for journalism my freshmen year of college and it changed my life and made me want to be a photojournalist. I am not a journalism major I'm just an art major. The most interesting thing to learn in news writing journalism is how to write articles like you in the newspaper industry. i am very passionate about my art I do all kinds of art I have been since I was little and art never really left my life it was there for me for better or worse. 

the gals I have for this term is to learn how to write my articles like they are in a newspaper to make sure i have all the facts about the whole subject that I am writing about, to make sure that you have all the facts is very important because if you don't have all the facts that things could go wrong about the place or person your writing about. another goal that I have for this class is to improve on my grammar and writing, this is one of my goals because I am very bad a grammar and it affects my writing a lot. this is my goal because it's good to have good grammar and writing skills to make sure you have good grammar and writing skills because if you don't then your stories and articles are going not look so good. another goal that to make sure my articles look good between the pictures and words to look good together because if they don't go together or don't look together no one going to be drawn to their story but if they do look good together than more people would look at your story. 

My first news article will be about the COVID-19 vaccine and what the effects of the vaccine would be after taking it. three sources that i will be working from is the CDC, Oregon health authority, and Benton county health. I'm also going to be interviewing two COVID nurses from Utah. five questions that I'm going to be asking is:

what side effects are coming from the vaccine?

what are the worst symptoms of the vaccine?

what are the chances of getting covid after taking the vaccine?

what is the effects of the vaccine on a pregnancy?

could the vaccine work on the baby?

could the vaccine kill the baby?

what would happen if someones trying to get pregnant but want the vaccine as well?

covid vaccine questions

 what side effects are coming from the vaccine?

what the worst symptoms of the vaccine?

what are the chances of getting covid on the virus?

what the effects of the vaccine on the pregnancy?

- could the vaccine work on the baby?

- could it kill the baby?

- what would happen is someones trying to get pregnant but wants the vacine?

 The Melon Shack is a pumpkin patch that is located in Corvallis Oregon off of highway 20. The melon shack had a tractor ride, pumpkin patch, normal corn maze, and haunted corn maze. the tractor ride goes all the way around the pumpkin patch so you can see everything. the corn maze during the day is a normal corn maze that is steady pace great for little kids, but during the night it is transformed into a haunted corn maze that teens and young adults can go to get their scare on. 

they have a wide selections of pumpkins from big to small and in all different shapes and sizes. its a grab your pumpkins yourself still even with he pandemic around. there pumpkin patch is huge and goes around the whole cornmaze.