Spotlight Awards Night

Last night, I attended the Spotlight Awards Night.... and Wow, did the Man/Tran students clean up! Here is the list of most of the awards received by students in our academy:



1) United States Marine Corp Music Award - Deaven Brown, Automotive



2) Turnaround Achievement Award - Cory Topper, Automotive



3) Masters of Machining Awards - Brock Alloway, Andrew Pender, and Scott Brown



4) GTS Welding - Frank Lopez, Tyler Sprankle, Evan Gardner, Cyle Griffith, Tyler Kibler, Gabriel Nepita-Mejia, and Zach Herman.



5) Dressel Welding and American Welding Society Gifts - Rachel Styers, Jake Watson, Cyle Griffith, Dan Waltemire, Tyler Little, Doug Hill, Dennis Sweeney, Matt Bruce, Tyler Sprankle, and Dustin Macklin



6) Excellence in PSSA Testing Reading High Score - Nate Price, Welding and Deaven Brown, Auto



7) Excellence in PSSA Testing Writing High Score - Nate Price, Welding



8) Man/Tran Star Student Auto - (Wayne) Scott Lowd



9) Man/Tran Star Student Diesel - James Hull



10) Man/Tran Star Student Welding - Ben Dehoff



11) Man/Tran Star Student Metal Machining - Brock Alloway



12) Man/Tran Star Student Power Equipment - Kyle Aikens



13) Man/Tran Star Student Collision - Cody Miller



14) Bud Landis Senior Awards: Seth Miller, Auto; Nathan Marks, Diesel; Brad Smith, Collision; Brock Alloway, Metal Machining; Seth Donat, Power Equipment; and Ben Dehoff, Welding.

15) Bernard Landis Memorial Scholarships - Nate Price, Welding; Edgar Chavez, Collision; Deaven Brown, Auto; Mike Ruff, Auto; Andrew Pender, Metal Machining; and Scott Brown, Metal Machining.

16) Man/Tran Academy Award - Brock Alloway, Metal Machining



17) Kunkle's Service Center Top Collision Student - Chris Rodriguez



18) Kunkle's Service Center Top Auto Repair Student - Shannon Wise



19) NAPA of York Tool Award - Andrew Foltz, Auto Tech



20) AASP Top Auto Student - Mike Ruff



21) Academic All Star (top 10 in class) - Nate Price, Welding



22) East York Rotary Scholarship - Tavon Vasquez, Welding



23) Skills USA District Award - Seth Donat, Power Equipment

24) Renaissance Senior Awards - Scott Brown, Metal Machining; James Dalton, Diesel; Brad Smith, Collision; and Deaven Brown, Auto.

Man/Tran Athletes

Wow, what a great time we had last night at the Athletic Awards Banquet! Our Man/Tran athletes won some great awards!

1) Dani Aikens, Metal Machining, was part of the 2010 Girls' Softball Team that was inducted into the YCST Hall of Fame for their Division IV Championship

2) Christian Marks, Metal Machining and Chris Spicer, Welding, both won Renaissance Positive Athlete Awards

3) Travis Gudz, Welding, won the Cross Country Player of the Year Award

4) Nick Houston, Diesel, won the Golf Player of the Year Award

5) Bryon Stem, Collision, won the Wrestling Player of the Year Award

6) Tavon Vasquez, Welding, won the overall Male Athlete of the Year Award!!!


Congrats to all student athletes for a wonderful school year in the SPARTAN NATION!

Excitement on the Way

This is a big week here at YCST! Tomorrow night is the Athletic Awards Dinner, during which many of our Man/Tran athletes will be honored. To name a few, we had Cheyanne Brown (bowling, Diesel Tech), Tavon Vazquez (football and track, Welding), Isaac Strausbaugh (football, Automotive), Pedro Rodriguez (baseball, Automotive), Danielle Aikens (softball, Metal Machining), and J.D. Smith (cross country, Metal Machining) participate in athletics.

Wednesday night will be the Spotlight Awards program, which will highlight a student of the year in each technical area in M/T and one overall top student in the academy.

Off to College

The following list shows which Man/Tran students have been accepted to colleges for next year. I hope to add more to this list by the end of the year. Congrats to these students!! We are so proud!

Deavon Brown - HACC
John Buckwalter - Penn Tech
Edgar Chavez - HACC
Corey Chavis - Universal Technical Institute
Seth Donat - Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
John Lloyd - University of Northwest Ohio
Nathan Marks - Penn Tech
Nate Price - HACC
Michael Ruff - Automotive Technical Institute
Devin Taylor - Kutztown University
Cory Topper - HACC
Jordan Wisotzky - Central Penn Diesel

Automotive Students

In my visits to to shop areas, I am pleased to see students and teachers still hard at work. Many people (students and teachers on occasion, too) think May is the time to start relaxing in a school. However, this is the time to really work hard to gain all the skills that weren't discussed throughout the rest of the year. The two students in the forefront of the picture were working on cleaning up a diagnostic tool, and the two in the background were working on engine skills.

YCST Senior Dinner

Last night, the Senior Dinner was held at the Holiday Inn. The evening was fantastic! The senior class as a whole was celebrated! Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the senior class advisors along with the senior class officers (Uriah Ramsey, Metal Machining, is the president), planned an evening of wonderful food, great prize giveaways, and presentations that represented each student in the senior class.

I've uploaded some pictures from the event. Many of our dedicated staff

members, including M/T Guidance Counselor, Mrs. Bassett (picture #2, with a Diesel student), and Welding Instructor, Mr. Seitzer (picture #1, with a Welding student and parent), attended to honor our students.

In the bottom picture, one our Automotive students (you may recognize him as the one who received the Turnaround Award for our school in Dallastown last week), is posing with several of his friends.

District 4 Champs!

To those of you who don't yet know, the YCST Spartan Softball team are the Division 4 Champs! Today, they are supposed to travel to New Oxford to play Bermudian Springs in the County Championships. Dani Aikens, Metal Machining student, is the catcher for the varsity team, as only a 9th grader! Her name has appeared in the paper numerous times this season for her batting contribution to the Spartans' wins. We look forward to sending off the team in style today and hopefully celebrating the win tomorrow.

New Student Orientation

Last night, the Manufacturing/Transportation Academy held its New Student Orientation. What a fantastic group of students and families we have entering our school! I cannot wait until next school year to see what these students are able to learn and do. Pictured above is a project from the Weld shop that was on display last night. This is a project commissioned by an outside person, looking to convert a simple plow to have digging capabilities. Joe Landis, senior Welding student, completed this project.

Alumni Success

This time of year, many of our students who are graduate wonder what's next. See the linked page here to show that the Automotive Repair training here can take you far. Dustin Wlazlo is now working as part of this racing team.

http://www.competitionplus.com/index.php/drag-racing/news/14175-fisher-wins-her-first-event-of-2010

Welding Collaboration Project

This project has recently been mounted in the Welding shop. Those involved in making the project are as follows:

Ben Dehoff - Fabrication

Alicia Hagan - CAD related drawing and cutting

Graphics - Compliments of Graphic ID

Jake Watson and Mr. Repansheck - Neon Patterns

Another fantastic design by the Welding shop!!

Presentation and Awards

On Monday of this week (5/3), Mr. Kessler organized a program with the Automotive Training Center. Many of our Man/Tran students attended one of two sessions to get the valuable information presented. Our students (of course) behaved very appropriately! Thanks to the students for their behavior and to Mr. Kessler for arranging this opportunity,

Last night, Mrs. Bassett and Mr. Merges attended an award ceremony in Dallastown with our 12th grade Automotive student, Cory Topper, for him to receive a Turnaround Award. Cory has also recently been accepted to college and passed his entrance exams with flying colors. We are so proud of Cory!