Every year, March is designated Women’s History Month by presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.

Did You Know? Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week . . .

Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year.

In 1980, a consortium of women’s groups and historians—led by the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women's History Alliance)—successfully lobbied for national recognition. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th 1980 as National Women’s History Week.

Subsequent Presidents continued to proclaim a National Women’s History Week in March until 1987 when Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, each president has issued an annual proclamation designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

Click here to download the NWHM 2021 Women's History Month Resource Toolkit, filled with links to biographies, events, and programming to celebrate this important month.

To learn more about the history of Women's History Month, please visit the Library of Congress.

If you are interested in finding out more about the CTE programs we offer here at The Skills Center, please reach out to Emily Humphrey, at emily.humphrey@onslow.k12.nc.us.

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I am a Family and Consumer Science Teacher. FACS is part of the Career and Technical Education Department. I currently teach 4 levels of Culinary Arts and Hospitality. I have been teaching for 25 years. I spent my first 10 years teaching English and the last 15 years teaching Culinary Arts. I am married and I have 3 children.

In this accelerated Culinary program, students complete each aspect of this program in 9-week segments. In the first segment, students learn all the foundational aspects of the culinary and hospitality industry through bookwork, computer research, and demonstrations. The next 9-weeks students focus on running a student-led catering business. Students also focus on mastering skills and creating a portfolio of their work. In the level 3 segment, students increase their skills and abilities. Finally, in the level 4 segment, students take a more active role in planning and executing catering and restaurant days. They also complete a portfolio to showcase their work. Level 3 and 4 students also have the opportunity to participate in SkillsUSA and ProStart Competitions.

To develop the future skilled workforce of Eastern North Carolina.

CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY I

Recommendation: FN41-Foods I is STRONGLY recommended at sending school. Interested in becoming a professional chef? Do you want to take your basic food skills to the next level? In this introductory course, you will learn food prep skills and prepare breakfast foods, soups, sandwiches, and salads. You will also learn how to serve customers in a restaurant setting.

As a team, we support and reinforce the following values:

• Strong work ethic
• Professionalism
• Communication skills
• Adaptability
• Leadership
• Ownership
• Ability to work in teams and individually
• Goal oriented
• Innovative
• Interpersonal skills

CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY III

Begin advanced food preparation techniques. You will learn menu planning and how to order the right amount of ingredients from a food service to put that menu in action. This level concentrates on making yeast breads, pastries, and desserts to sell in its school-based restaurant.

CULINARY ARTS AND HOSPITALITY IV - APPLICATIONS

Continue to advance your culinary skills preparing and selling a variety of meat, poultry, and seafood entrées served with accompaniments and sauces and yeast breads, desserts, and pastries. Students learn human resource management of a restaurant and create a portfolio of their work from the Culinary Arts and Hospitality pathway.

Our programs consist of TWO 9-week courses each semester. Students are with us for two class periods per day, either in the morning or in the afternoon. Daily attendance is imperative as each day = 2 actual classes at the Skills Center. Please reach out if you have questions about our schedule or your student's attendance.

March is Women's History Month – commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

NATIONAL – DODGE CHRYSLER JEEP RAM PRESENTS TRADES DAY

MARCH 18, 2023

COSTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

444 WESTERN BLVD, JACKSONVILLE, NC 28546

REGISTRATION: 7:00 AM-8:00 AM

COMPETITION: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

AWARDS CEREMONY: 12:00 PM

The Jacksonville•Onslow Chamber of Commerce partners with businesses in the community to host this annual competition for high school students that are in vocational trades classes in Onslow and Jones County High Schools. Trades Day gives these students an opportunity to be recognized for their talents and allows them to showcase their skills. This event brings 120 students and more than 200 parents and community leaders to the Coastal Carolina Community College campus every spring. The Jacksonville•Onslow Chamber of Commerce hosts this event in an ongoing effort to promote workforce development and growth in our community.

Students will be released 3 hours early for teacher professional development. Students will be staying at their home school campus for the early release day and will NOT be physically coming to the Skills Center, however, students will still be expected to complete virtual assignments.

Please contact your Career Development Coordinator (see below) for more information about HOW YOU CAN take classes HERE at the Skills Center!