The Centerville Information Technology Program has won the Tech Prep Showcase every year since 2007!!!!

Tech Prep Showcase Rubric

PROJECT RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT

*Project directly relates to career field

*Data was collected during the project

*A variety of methods and resources were used to gather data

AUTHENTIC WORK BASED LEARNING & PROBLEM SOLVING

*A strong project connection can be made to an area in the pathway

*Problem identified-superior problem solving techniques

ACADEMIC / TECHNICAL

*Exhibits knowledge beyond the career technical area

*Evidence of planning & organizing by answering all questions effectively

Working Database including multiple tables relationships, reading, writing, adding, and deleting capabilities

PROFESSIONAL & TEAM RELATIONSHIPS

*Partnerships were exemplary, clearly demonstrating a multitude of business involvement

*Complete team work explained and demonstrated by project evaluation and team members answers to judges questions.

PRESENTATION SKILLS

*Effective, dynamic oral presentation; speaks clearly, uses proper grammar; dresses appropriately; and exhibits good eye contact

*Demonstrates in-depth preparedness for presentation

Below are some of the past showcase winners and what they have done with their real-world experience!

Cleveland Showcase

Dan works as a Software Enginner 2 at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington

Bob works as a ISSO and Service Desk Speciallist at Ball Aerospace.

1st Place Software

Andrew and Ahmed work at Amazon, Billy works at Zift Solutions as a Software Enginner and Jordan works as a Seniors Concultant in the Deloitte Advisory practice.

"Focusing on IT has allowed me to develop the skill set to advise Fortune 500 companies on their IT innovation strategies. - Jordan

1st Place Software

Sondro works at Fosdick & Hilmer, Tyler studies at UC, Brian works at Rippe & Kingston.
"I use RESTful web applications using Python as a back-end and a distributed database called RethinkDB. I do a ton of Javascript as well, using AngularJS to build front-end applications and Node.js to program the web service for some of the applications that I build (https://www.enseuk.co.uk)." -Brain

1st Place Hardware

Scott is an IT Specialist at Berkeley Research Group.
Matt is the Vice President EDU Parnerships & Innovation at NextStep Networking. He is also the Chief Information Officer at Butler County Education Service Center as well as Co-Founder of EnviroTech Networks, LLC.