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John Boggess, Superintendent, Miami Valley CTC was awarded BASA’s Dick Maxwell School Finance Award at the fall BASA conference.  John is accepting the award from Dick Maxwell (right).

Robin White, CEO of the Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the National Council of Local Administrators of Career and Technical Education at the ACTE Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Robin is joined by (from left to right) Celena Roebuck, NCLA Board Member, Doug Major, ACTE Administrative Division Vice President, Nancy Mulvey, NCLA Secretary, Tom Applegate, NCLA Executive Director, Robin White, Randy Richardson, NCLA President and Greg Pierce, NCLA Board Member.

Hi-Point Journeys listed as an Official Honoree by the 2010 Webby Awards

Ohio Hi-Point Career Center's Hi-Point Journeys
website (hipointjourneys.com) was selected as an Official Honoree in the
2010 Webby Awards, the leading international award honoring excellence on
the Internet.
"The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to the top 15% of all
work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement. With nearly 10,000
entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an
outstanding accomplishment for you and your team," said David-Michel Davies,
Executive Director of The Webby Awards for The International Academy of
Digital Arts and Sciences, in the official e-mail notification sent to Oxiem
Marketing Technology, the agency that worked with Ohio Hi-Point Career
Center on the project and designed and developed the social media-driven
micro-site.
Ohio Hi-Point Career Center's Hi-Point Journeys site was awarded
Official Honoree designation with 11 other institutions in the
School/University category. Other Official Honorees included the University
of Southern California, Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), Savannah
College of Art and Design, Colorado Technical University and John Hopkins
University. Ohio Hi-Point is one of only two high schools internationally
to receive the honor. The other is Wayland High School in Massachusetts.


"I was excited to see news that our Hi-Point Journeys campaign was
named as an Official Honoree in the School/University category for The 14th
Annual Webby Awards," said Shane Haggerty, marketing and communications
director at Hi-Point.
"This is such a great honor for the work Oxiem did for Ohio Hi-Point
Career Center in helping us launch one of the first full-scale social media
campaigns in Ohio public education. The site Oxiem designed is certainly
worthy of this honor, and I am most excited of the awareness this continues
to bring to our Hi-Point Journeys campaign, the great things our students do
here at Ohio Hi-Point and to the great opportunities career-technical
education does as a whole in the state of Ohio."
The Webby Awards were established in 1996 during the Web's infancy,
and are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences,
which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business
figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate
Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet
professionals.
Hi-Point Journeys, launched last September, empowers 13 Ohio
Hi-Point Career Center students to document their "journeys" by utilizing
photos, video filmed with FlipCams and through blogging. Social media
channels are then utilized to share their work. The site can be visited at
hipointjourneys.com.

ABOUT OHIO HI-POINT CAREER CENTER
The Ohio Hi-Point Career Center develops our most valuable resource
-people-- by providing quality career-technical and academic education
programs.
The two-year career-technical high school serves junior and senior
students from 14 school districts and offers more than 30 career training
programs at the Hi-Point campus and satellite locations. Hi-Point also
provides adult and continuing educational programming, ABLE/GED programs and
Project SEARCH.
For more information on all programs, visit www.ohiohipoint.com.