Our new Chefs, Abramo and Higgins along with our student chefs are turning up the heat in the Culinary Arts department! We are in full swing in the kitchens and we are cooking up a storm. The Culinary Arts department has done multiple cooking labs, and activities since being back into our kitchens.

Our Introduction to the Culinary Arts Level 1, Global Cuisine 1, and Creativity and Innovation in the Culinary Arts classes are preparing delicious recipes of all kinds. Introduction to Culinary Arts classes are mastering Safety & Sanitation, Knife Skills, and Measuring Techniques by creating several dishes including Ratatouille, Fall Apple Pies, and Pizza! Global Cuisine classes started their cooking journey in France! They created dishes such as Croque Monsieur, Everything Gougeres, and Crepes, just to name a few. They are now continuing their journey to Mexico. Our Creativity and Innovation in Culinary Arts class is diving deep into mastering a variety of soups, and sauces. These students take a standard recipe given, and elevate their recipes adding their own "flare", by adding spices, and unique garnishes. A few of the dishes have included designing a Chicken Pot Pie, Sicilian Pizza, and Chicken Francese.

Make sure to sign up for one of our culinary classes, let's get cooking! Follow us on Instagram to see what the chefs will be stewing up next! @woculinaryarts

The high school students have been creating “hands-on” interactive preschool lessons according to a theme such as Fall, Colors/Shapes, Five Senses, Space, Nutrition, Community Helpers, People in the World/Diversity, and Nutrition/Healthy Eating Habits for in-person and virtual instruction. In addition, high school students are creating preschool bulletin boards utilizing preschoolers’ names with themes such as “Half Day is Full of Smart Cookies" based a book written by Laurie Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond and “Let’s TACO-O-Bout Reading."

Other Early Childhood and Family Studies classes are created an elementary floor plan with supplies and equipment as a “shadow box” showcase according to their classroom budgets. High school students are interacting with preschool age children creating exciting cooking experiences such as “Snowman Soup '' ; a recipe of hot milk chocolate cocoa mixed with all the ingredients. They also created a fun Winter Wonderland poem and a craft of a snowman from cotton balls. The preschool children enjoyed all of the activities!

See Ms. Mullin for more information! Upcoming Freshman must apply for the program. Click here for the application.

Learn more about our preschool program by clicking here.

Students so far this year, are learning to sketch, hand-sew, use the sewing machine and use the elements and principles of design in Fashion. Interior Design students are learning about one-point perspective and floor plans. Many of the students compete in the fashion category at the FCCLA convention, which is held twice a year in New Jersey. You can read about our success at the first competition by clicking here. If you are in our program, you will also have the opportunity to be part of the yearly fashion/display show where you can share the wonderful garments you create throughout the year.

Do you want to be a Cyber Defender? If so, enroll in the Honor's Cybersecurity course to gain the skills you need to be the best Cyber Defender. Honor's Cybersecurity students are learning how to do ethical hacking, which involves using many different types of tools to test and protect the network. Cybersecurity students learn how to verify the security of a network and its systems using many network penetration testing tools. Cybersecurity students also learn how to use hacking tools in order to perform network penetration tests. Some of the tools the students are using include password crackers, wireless hacking tools, packet sniffers, rootkit detectors, fuzzers to search vulnerabilities (Skipfish, Wapiti, and W3af), and forensic tools.

There is an increase in demand for Cyber Security professionals in the industry, so many universities now offer a degree in the field as well. This Honor’s level year-long credit course also offers students an opportunity to earn 3 college credits as a part of our dual-credit agreement with Fairleigh Dickinson’s Middle College Program.

Start by signing up for IT Essentials to learn about software and hardware. IT Essentials is offered as a foundation course. This year-long course is recommended for students who have an interest in networking and Cybersecurity, but only have an introductory knowledge of computers. We look forward to seeing you in our Cisco Networking Lab at WOHS.

VE, our dual-credit, honors, cap-stone course, offers all students meaningful skills-based career experiences. Through our hands-on, task-based curricula, students test drive potential careers and develop in-demand skills and competencies that post-secondary institutions and employers are seeking. By managing the day-to-day operations of a company, students not only develop business skills and an entrepreneurial mindset, they also identify career pathways that align with their interests, talents, and aspirations.

Watch this video to learn more about the Honors Virtual Enterprise program at WOHS.

In our Digital Design class, we use Industry-standard software products, the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, to create high-impact professional desktop publishing designs and documents.

The students are truly enjoying themselves this semester, first learning the basics of InDesign and moving onto intermediate and advanced features.

With all this foundational design knowledge, we will be moving forward this semester to work on creating logos, advertisements ~ web and print-based, brochures, newsletters and more.

The students are loving tapping into their creative side and will leave with advanced skills useful in either college or the workplace!

Students today face an increasing number of financial choices as a result of the global economy in which we live. This course focuses on the financial-life aspects of the student’s roles as citizens, family members, consumers, and active daily participants in the business world. This course is designed to assist students in recognizing their financial responsibilities today and those they will encounter in the future. Topics will include budgeting, banking, consumer credit, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and money management strategies.

Students take the Nationally recognized W!SE Financial Literacy Online Test.