Seventh and eighth grade students at Hominy Middle School took advantage of the beautiful weather Wednesday and Thursday, March 2-3, to travel to Drumright and tour the Central Technology Center campus as well as the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Regional Center.
Planned originally as a tour for Tech Ed students, Hominy Tech Ed instructor Michael Bobbitt and five other teachers elected to take the nearly 120 seventh and eighth graders for the trips. Bobbitt and Central Tech advisor Brenda Cox offered the youths a couple of days filled with tours of the technology center's campus and technology education programs, a visit in the OSSM/RC laboratory, lunch, and discussion time on subjects ranging from career choices and college credit for Central Tech programs, to scholarships and the Oklahoma Higher Education Learn Access Program for assisting Sooner students in getting an education in technology programs or at college campuses.
“The middle school visits to Central Tech were designed to raise the youth's awareness of the career opportunities that await them and the educational requirements required today. Pre-High School students who plan to attend college and want to take advance of the OHLAP program will have that decision soon and the program this week was designed to give the students critical information, timelines and an opportunity to ask questions,” said Cox. |
