Special thanks to Kathy Whitehead and the Medical Assistant students on a job well done with the annual Red Cross Blood Drive. The Butler Farm Campus collected a total of 66 pints of blood exceeding the goal of 58.

Sydney Boone and Kenneth Williams, both New Horizons graduates, spoke at the New Horizons annual golf classic on Thursday, Oct. 24 th at Fords Colony Golf Course. Sydney is a dental hygienist at Watts Dentistry in Hampton and Kenneth is in the Apprentice School at Newport News Shipbuilding.

NHREC WL has formed a business relationship with Legacy Apparel. They outfitted the HVAC with their new professional work shirts.

Culinary Arts students prepared a holiday spread for staff on November 20, 2019.

Gloucester administrators visited Woodside Lane November 21 to gain more insight on the opportunities available to their students.

Yolanda Simmons came by to kickoff the NASA HUNCH program with Culinary and Carpentry on November 6th and 13th. The Culinary students will compete to create an ethnic dish for the astronauts in space and carpentry will be building boxes to transport items.

Students used dental floss to assist with measuring the circumference and radius data for the lollipop. Using initial values, and data obtained in 30 second intervals, used their data to find a relationship between the radius of the lollipop and licks. Although there were some outliers, there was a cluster of data that allowed us to come to the conclusion it is approximately 300 licks. The students identified that variations in their data could be caused by techniques, errors in measurement, and unequal coating of the lollipop.

Caleb Edwards set Dr. Hou’s photo fixed as the background image, while another background image dynamic(which moves when the web page is scrolled up and down).

For junior students: Junior students are exploring a new word about low-level machine language, pseudocode, and algorithms! They learn how to think like a computer which only execute very low level instructions. Then they enter a higher level about abstract algorithms and pseudocodes, which are exactly the main objective to study in computer science!

After receiving an invitation from our Career and Tech friends, students from Newport Academy and Center for Autism visited the MX Trailer. They had an amazing time!

CFAAT Welding Cohort with Mr. Ed Dupree were invited to Liebherr Mining Equipment in Hampton Virginia for a visit and tour of facilities given by LME Technical Training Coordinator Mr. Paul Miller.

CFAAT Administration recently applied as a Training Vendor with Career Works Hampton Roads Workforce Council. Online curriculums such as Pharmacy Technician, Cosmetology/Barbering/Nail Technician, and NCCER Trades (Electrical, Plumbing, & HVAC) were offered in the application with hopes of adding more once we are accepted and get started!

Youth Workforce Center highlights Adonai Morton. Adonai participated in Youth Workforce as part of our in-school program. From the moment he entered our office, his goal was to succeed by any means necessary in his career choice as a fire fighter.. Adonai has a passion to serve his community and dedicated himself to achieving that goal. " No matter what I will be a firefighter at Station Number 1!". He would speak about this daily and would not be distracted on his road to success.

Adonai recently stopped by the office to inform us he has achieved his dream and obtained his certification. Its very fulfilling to be part of his journey and see the results of his hard work.