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. This year's theme is CTE: Invest in Your Future.
CTE Month Products Are Here!
The online store is now up and running and ready for your orders! Place your orders today to make sure you have all of your resources by February.
This year, ACTE put together a substantial variety of products for you to decorate, hand out, give as gifts, reward CTE teachers and supporters, and other ways. Add your own logo to some of the products for a personal touch and to use throughout the year!
You can also order products by calling 800-822-1923.
Share Your CTE Month Stories
As you celebrate CTE Month, share stories of your celebration and activities and be entered into a drawing for prizes. ACTE will select winners in the following categories:
Best Use of Theme and Logo
- creative way a school or organization uses the theme CTE: Invest in Your Future
- creative way a school or organization uses the CTE Month logo
Best Attendance From Government and Community Leaders
- the number of local, state and national policymakers who attend events during CTE Month
- the number of community business leaders who attend events during CTE Month
Best Outreach Efforts
- media outreach (press releases, blogs, fliers) and press coverage of events
By sending in a description of your event, you will receive one entry into the contest. You can add an additional entry by providing photos (one entry) and video (one entry) of your event. Members can submit one description, one photo or set of photos, and one video per category. The deadline to enter stories is March 3. ACTE will announce winners during the second week of March.
You can share CTE Month celebration plans and stories by e-mailing Sabrina Kidwai with "CTE Month Story for (name of category you are entering)". Please contact Sabrina with any questions.
After submitting, post on the CTE Month online discussion forum and tell your colleagues the great work you're doing for CTE Month!
Job Shadow Day
ACTE is hosting its first-ever Job Shadow Day on February 5! Students from Falls Church High School are coming to the Headquarters office to learn more about ACTE. And because ACTE visits local schools to gain a better understanding of different CTE programs in the area each year, ACTE staff will visit Falls Church High School on February 24 to learn how CTE is being carried out in Northern Virginia.
Click here to see how other schools and organizations, including career and technical student organizations, are celebrating CTE Month.
CTE Month Web Banners
Post these eye-catching banners on your site to help promote CTE Month. Link the banners to www.acteonline.org/ctemonth.aspx. (Downloads are full-size.)
CTE Month Promotion
CTE Month LogoACTE 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