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5/7/2019 Open for Business!The Business Management and Entrepreneurship Academy at VR Eaton High School Each year NISD CTE’s senior Business Management and Entrepreneurship Academy students at VR Eaton High School have a unique opportunity. They develop an idea for a product or a service, develop an industry-quality written business plan, assume a professional role in their company, and then market their virtual product in a unique online economy. Their “virtual” products are then sold in the Virtual Enterprises International economy consisting of 600 high schools and community colleges across the country and around the world. This year’s three “virtual” businesses Summa, Amplitide, and Cowboy Crate all earned the prestigious honor of “VEI Top 50.” An honor recognizing Virtual Enterprise companies who meet engagement and achievement criteria in the Virtual Enterprise marketplace. Students from Amplitide and Cowboy Crate qualified to compete in the National Business Plan Competition & International Trade Exhibition at the 2019 Youth Business Summit in New York, NY. BME Academy teams earning national accolades included Cowboy Crate earning Gold Recognition in both the Trade Show Booth and Sales Pitch competitions and Amplitide earning Silver Recognition in both Trade Show Booth and Sales Pitch events. Competing at the Microsoft Technology Center near Times Square, young entrepreneurs from Amplitide - a technology company selling high quality earbuds made from recycled plastics - competed in the highly competitive Oral and Written Business Plan competition. L to R - Marshall M. , Keegan T. , Madelyne O., Jakayla D., Julia M., Bini S. with Mrs. Everett Want to explore more NISD CTE stories? Click here!
Use the Categories at the bottom of the screen to filter by topic. 5/6/2019 EDD: Presents!
Our Senior teams each presented their design and prototype once in the morning to a room full of judges and audience members. Teams had 20 minutes to present their idea and 10 minutes for judges questions. After the 30 minute time limit, judges scored the teams on their introduction, problem description, solution development, prototype design and testing, and lastly their presentation skills. We had 17 teams present their solutions to over 46 judges! Check out their presentations here: http://tinyurl.com/STEMeddpresents “Getting a whole day just to present our hard work to not just the judges, but our family, friends, and others was a very exhilarating feeling. This gives them a look at what we've been working on for the past months and lets us see our goal come into fruition.” - Senior, Marla G. “The whole program of EDD presents is such a great idea for all seniors and other STEM students to actually experience, and see first hand what it takes to survive in the STEM field and the outside world. It helps us all see what is needed to actually pitch and show our ideas if we did want to ever sell an innovation or idea. It is difficult to put ourselves out there and present to so many people, so I want to congratulate all the seniors for doing this. It wasn't easy, however, they made it look easy and fun.” - Junior Ambassador, Sakina Z. During the lunch break, the scores for each team were tabulated and the top three scoring teams moved on to the finals, held in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) in front of about 250 students and guests, including 20 judges! Our top three teams were:
“I personally think the most interesting project of all was the "Polarized Closed Captioning" since it's not something you would expect to be an issue, and yet it is. Their result/prototype is quite innovative.” - Senior, Marla G. Judges in the finals used the same criteria and score systems that were used in the morning sessions to score each team presentation. After all three teams had presented and had a question period, the scores were tabulated. Though all three teams did an amazing job, the judges awarded first place to the closed captioning team. Congratulations to Carson, Caulter and Jayden! Results: 1st Place: Invisible Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired 2nd Place: Electromagnetic Harness 3rd Place: The Aquarilung Thanks to our sponsor, BNSF, each team member was awarded a prize such as Bose speakers, SurfaceGo and SurfacePro tablets. This event was an exciting way to end the EDD project and provided our students a way to showcase their skills on a grand scale. We look forward to the next EDD: Presents! in 2020. “I can't wait to see what next year will bring!” - EDD teacher, Jacque DeLong Special Thanks: We are appreciative of all of the support that our community gave our students! The STEM teachers were all integral in ensuring this event was well organized and that we stayed on schedule. Special thanks to our friends in the Creative Media Productions Academy for taking professional headshots of our senior students and having photographers at our event. We want to thank our STEM Booster Club for organizing, setting up and serving all of the meals and snacks. In addition to being the prize patrol and supporting all of our seniors, they were instrumental in helping our event run smoothly. Thanks to our Bronze Level Sponsors, Showtime Farms, Aramark, Jason’s Deli and Thomas Engineering! These sponsors helped us provide catering to our judges/guests and our Senior students. Thanks to our Gold Level Sponsor, BNSF, the STEM Booster Club was able to provide really great prizes for our top three teams. Our third place team members were each awarded with Bose wireless speakers, second place members each won Microsoft SurfaceGo with keyboard, and our first place team members were all awarded with Microsoft SurfacePro with keyboard and Surface pen. Thank you BNSF for supporting our engineering students! Finally, without the hard work (and long days) of Mrs. DeLong, EDD teacher, this event would not be possible! We want to thank all of our sponsors and judges for helping us make EDD: Presents! 2019 a success! Want to explore more NISD CTE stories? Click here!
Use the Categories at the bottom of the screen to filter by topic. By Kristen Stockard – V.R. Eaton Agriculture Science Teacher Retail florists are always looking for floral designers who know how to create the basic designs needed in a shop on a daily basis. TSFA has begun to fulfill this need by the development of the Texas High School Certification program in 2004. This certification program allows school districts to provide more value to their diploma and helps provide young, enthusiastic floral designers to meet the retail florist needs!
V.R. Eaton High School hosted an official TSFA Floral test on April 13th 2019. 259 total students from 17 high schools across Texas attended the event. Aledo, Azle, Birdville, Burleson, Burleson Centennial, Byron Nelson, Carroll, Gainesville, Grapevine, Jacksonville, McKinney Boyd, McKinney North, Marcus, Millsap, Northwest, Poolville and VR Eaton. It was a wonderful feeling to see so many students and teachers come together in one place to prove they have the skill set needed to be ready to walk into any floral shop and serve as a floral assistant. Northwest ISD had 129 students attend the TSFA certification event. Northwest High School – Texan Flowers
Byron Nelson High School – Byron Blooms
V.R. Eaton High School – Eaton Floral Expressions
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