CTE Month 2010
February is CTE Month! This month-long celebration of CTE kicks off with National Job Shadow Day and concludes with National Entrepreneurship Week USA. Schools looking for promotional items can use the Product Guide, which features customizable products to commemorate CTE Month. Visit the CTE Month Online Store to view the Product Guide and purchase your promotional and commemorative items. The 2010 edition will be available late in 2009.
Share Your CTE Month Stories
You can share CTE Month celebration plans and stories in the CTE Month forum of ACTE's new online discussion forums or e-mail them to Sabrina Kidwai. Tell us your plans and you, your students and school could be profiled on ACTEonline!
CTE Month Trivia
Are you or your students a fan of trivia? ACTE created a set of trivia questions that teachers can use as an activity for CTE Month. They can be used throughout CTE Month in classes, schools and communities to test students’ knowledge of CTE. Questions range from CTE facts and history to career examples in TV and movies. ACTE has provided a list of answers and/or Web sites that will help people find the answers. If you have any questions, please contact Sabrina Kidwai.
CTE Month Promotion
ACTE Selects Logo Design for 2010 CTE MonthACTE announced that Grant Robertson of Houston, Texas won the
2010 CTE Month Logo Design Contest. Robertson received a check for
$250 and his logo will be used to promote the 2010 CTE Month theme, CTE: Invest in Your Future. ACTE received 280 entries for this year’s contest.
Robertson
is a junior in the Advertising and Graphic Design Career Education
program at Barbara Jordan High School for Careers in
Houston. He entered the program during his freshman year and is
learning to use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS programs, as well as
other world-class computer software. He is a member of the SkillsUSA
Leadership Organization and has successfully competed in regional
electronic-media competitions.
CTE Month Logo Information
CTE Month Video Public Service Announcement ContestACTE is looking for budding filmmakers to develop a 29-second video public service announcement to publicize CTE Month. Secondary and postsecondary CTE students in film- and video-production classes and other CTE courses are invited to submit video PSAs incorporating the 2010 CTE Month logo and theme, CTE: Invest in Your Future. Students can enter the contest as individuals or as a group. The deadline to enter is October 16, 2009.
The complete rules and copies of copyright assignment and release forms are available on the PSA Contest Web page. ACTE is partnering with SchoolTube to host this year’s contest. Students will upload videos to SchoolTube’s Web site this fall in addition to sending broadcast-quality versions to ACTE, and a panel of marketing and media professionals will judge the entries.
ACTE will announce the winners during its Annual Convention, November 19-21 in Nashville, Tennessee. The first-place student(s) will receive a $750 prize and their school will receive one complimentary copy of Apple's Final Cut Studio 2, a professional video-editing suite, which Apple is donating for the contest. The second-place student(s) will receive $250 and one complimentary copy of Apple's Final Cut Studio 2 for their school. First- and second-place videos will be publicized on the Internet and may air on television.
For more information or questions about submissions, please contact onlinemedia@acteonline.org.
Last year's winning and runner-up video PSAs can be viewed and purchased here.