TECH, TOO, COOL FOR SCHOOL CAREER-PREP COURSES OFFER TRAINING IN LUCRATIVE FIELDS!DLIM.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Assemblywoman as·sem·bly·wom·an n. A woman who is a member of a legislative assembly. Noun 1. assemblywoman - a woman assemblyman representative - a person who represents others Sharon Runner Sharon Runner (born May 17 1954, Los Angeles) is a Californian politician. She has been a member of the California State Assembly since 2002. Runner, a Republican from Antelope Valley represents the 36th district. talked to teenagers making Web sites and video productions in a promotion for the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Union High School District's career-preparation programs. The Lancaster assemblywoman visited Knight High School's computer and video production classes on a tour for Career-Technical Education Month, sponsored by the Antelope Valley Career Prep Council. ``Not every student is going to go to college,'' Runner said, noting that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed state budget calls for putting $37.4 million into vocational education vocational education, training designed to advance individuals' general proficiency, especially in relation to their present or future occupations. The term does not normally include training for the professions. . ``We need those mechanics. We need those home-builders ... They're good-paying jobs.'' The Career Prep Council, an organization of educators, business people and other civic leaders, is conducting tours this month to show off career and technical-education programs both for teens who want to enter jobs right out of high school, as well as those heading to college and technical schools. Dozens of career-technical programs exist at local high schools, ranging from interactive media technology at Knight High to culinary arts and agribusiness agribusiness Agriculture operated by business; specifically, that part of a modern national economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food and fibre products and byproducts. at Littlerock High, information systems at Antelope Valley High, health careers at Palmdale High, and law and government at Highland High. The Career Prep council is recruiting businesses and other employers to offer internships for students, council chairman Randy Scott Randy Scott (born October 27, Newton, Kansas) is a Seattle radio personality currently working on the Ichabod Caine Morning Show heard weekday mornings 5 AM - 10 AM on 94. said. Internships give teens an opportunity to experience what a career would be like, he said. Teachers supervise the work the teens do. ``We've got kids out in a lot of different courses and also got them doing projects,'' said June Battey, the high school district's School-to-Careers director. At Knight, Runner talked to multimedia students Catherine Barillas and Danilo Abrenica, who showed her the Knight High Web site maintained by students as well as a Devil's Punchbowl Punchbowl, hill, 500 ft (152 m) high, in the city of Honolulu, SE Oahu island, Hawaii. In the bowllike extinct volcanic crater at the summit (reached by a scenic drive) is the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, for those killed in World War II. Web site created with Keppel Union School District Gifted and Talented Education students. ``I'm hoping for a career in computers or law. I like technology and I'm interested in law - either one,'' said Barillas, who is in her third year of computer classes. Runner also visited Knight High's video classroom, where students sat at glass-topped desks manipulating images on computer screens in a video-production class. Others were in a small studio used for taping the campus's daily ``Eye of the Hawk'' news show, which goes out over the campus television system and online. Knight High is only 3 years old, so it has no graduates yet, but computer students have already done work for small businesses designing Web pages, computer sciences department chairwoman Sherry Garmon said. One student creates business cards for companies. Students also operate the school Web site, she said. ``All I do is supervise. At that level they're completely capable of handling the work themselves,'' Garmon said. Garmon is trying to encourage more girls to enroll in the computer classes, made up now predominantly of boys. Such education is vital, she said. ``If they have talent, they need to be out there in that field, not flipping hamburgers,'' Garmon said. Career education tours are scheduled for Wednesday at Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). , Thursday at Lancaster High School Lancaster High School may refer to:
The community is invited to join in the visits by scheduling with Battey at (661) 575-1025 or e-mailjbattey(at)avhsd.org. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Above, Shawna Truong, 15, left, works on a computer at Knight High School as Assemblywoman Sharon Runner observes; other students are training as well. Left, pupils use computers to edit video. The Career Prep council is recruiting businesses and other employers to offer internships for students. (3) Videographer A person involved in the production of video material. Videographers shoot the images with a video camera (analog or digital) and may perform minimal or extensive editing of the resulting footage. John Sanchez John Sanchez (born 1963) is an American politician. Biography Sanchez, the youngest of eight children, was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico's North Valley. Sanchez's great, great grandfather was a territorial legislator in 1860, and his grandfather served as a state , 17, smiles for the camera. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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