MCCTC students win 13 gold and one silver medal

Staff report

CANFIELD

Ten seniors and four juniors from the Early Childhood Education Program at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center attended the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Regional Skills Events at Tallmadge High School and brought home 13 gold medals and one silver for their efforts.

The winners:

Seniors Contessa Barrett, West Branch; Alayna Gordon, Jackson-Milton; and Lilliana Irizarry and LaKayla Weaver, both of Campbell, participated in the Early Childhood Team Event, which required them to spontaneously develop and present before judges a schedule of activities, and a thematic curriculum web that integrates the Ohio Early Learning and Development Standards. The team earned gold medals.

Senior MaKayla Shea of Austintown Fitch presented a Curriculum Unit Display Board that represented activities that she presented to the Head Start classroom. Shea earned a gold medal.

Senior Lauryn Ellis of Boardman developed a language and literacy activity to go along with the picture book “Elmer” and presented an extension activity to coordinate with the story. Ellis brought home a silver medal.

Senior Precious Mitchell of Austintown Fitch planned a specific task assessment resource box of materials to demonstrate ways to assess children’s language and literacy development. Mitchell earned a gold medal.

Seniors Arlessa Douglass of Struthers and Mackenzie Pringle and Diana Schell, both of Austintown presented an illustrated talk about shaken-baby syndrome. These students created a display board of their findings and made presentations to classmates, Head Start parents and staff who are parents of young children to earn gold medals.

Juniors Hanna Moore of Austintown, Danielle Shreve of West Branch, Kayla Windsor of Poland and Samantha Zarlengo of Austintown participated in the early-childhood team event. They also brought home gold medals.