Worth Countians Selected as Moultrie Technical College Tech Prep Champions
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Everett Cox, 2005 Sunbelt Career |
Bill Boone, 2005 Tech Prep |
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Community Champion |
MOULTRIE , GA. Moultrie Technical College has selected a 2003 Worth County High School graduate, Everett Cox, as the 2005 Sunbelt Career Initiatives Student Champion. Bill Boone, Executive Director of Worth County Economic Development and chairman of Sunbelt Career Initiatives, was selected as the Tech Prep Community Champion.
Both will be invited to join other adult and student Tech Prep Champions from around the state at the annual recognition luncheon at the 2005 State Tech Prep Conference in Atlanta in February.
Tech Prep is a nationwide career development system that provides a student with a planned program of study that incorporates academic and career-related courses aligned between the secondary and postsecondary levels. This agreement then allows the transfer of high school credit to the postsecondary level leading to a diploma, associate or bachelor’s degree.
The program activities include professional development in career guidance, curriculum integration and contextual teaching, leadership and commitment, evaluation and accountability, curriculum alignment, site team development.
The Moultrie Technical College Tech Prep Consortium serves Colquitt, Tift, Turner, and Worth County School Systems.
Cox is currently enrolled in the Automotive Technology program at Moultrie Tech. While at Worth County High School he was a part of the Youth Apprenticeship Program. He is a member of the National Technical Honor Society and has been awarded certificates of automotive training through a General Motors program.
Boone has been instrumental in promoting education, the importance of career technical education/training and seeking avenues to bring educational opportunities to Worth County.
He has served on the Advisory Board of the Business Education Department of Worth County High School, and he currently serves on the administrative board of the Career & Technical Department of Worth Technical Department of Worth County High School.
In addition, he has arranged speaking engagements to help promote career and technical education. In his responsibilities as Economic Development Director he brings to the school system’s attention the employer workplace readiness needs so that students are adequately prepared and that the community and workplace is better served.
Media Release- February 11, 2005
Contact: Jana Wiggins, Moultrie Technical College, Director of Marketing
(229) 217-4139 or (229) 891-7000
Email: jwiggins@moultrietech.edu
