Career Academy Newsletter

District ACT: On Tuesday, April 5th the Career Academy had approximately 125 sophomores and senior from East, North and West, along with juniors from VIBE take the ACT Exam. Students who tested created a MyACT account prior to testing and are encouraged to check their MyACT account in two to three weeks for their score reports. After receiving your score report, if you have any questions see your home high school counselor or Mr. Lucas at the Career Academy.

File Your FAFSA: Seniors you can still file your FAFSA for financial assistance with college expenses for the upcoming fall semester. There is still time! See your counselor for assistance.

WITCC Courses: WITCC’s Fall 2022 course schedule is set and students considering college credit courses online, on WITCC’s campus, or at the Career Academy can submit course registration forms with their counselor. Take advantage of all the college credit opportunities!

HOSA – Future Health Professionals is an international student organization dedicated to supporting career development in health professions and the field of health care. The Sioux City Career Academy, with the help of advisors Courtney Greene and Mary Dermit, sponsors local HOSA members and their activities.

The State Leadership Conference this year was held at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The conference was led by the State Executive Council that featured two of Sioux City HOSA’s members: State President Youla Tricia Onayon and State Secretary Kenny Lam. In addition to preparing interactive workshops, the officers helped present the opening and closing ceremonies of the conference. Presenters Ashley Brinton and CVS Health also hosted engaging discussions with members.

Members then had the opportunity to participate in competitive events spanning across different categories. The following students received awards:

· Amy Nguyen – 1st in Behavioral Health

· Bethzy Nicolas – 1st in Biomedical Laboratory Science

· Nayeli Lupercio – 2nd in Epidemiology

· Aniya Hernandez and Nayeli Lupercio – 6th in Health Career Display

· Noe Sanchez – 4th in Health Career Photography

· Bethzy Nicolas, Saron Kidanemariam, Kenny Lam, and Sumeyo Noor – 3rd in HOSA Bowl

· Kenny Lam – 3rd in Medical Math

· Mariana Garcia-Perez – 2nd in Pharmacology

· Youla Tricia Onayon – 4th in Pharmacology

· Giselle Ayala – 5th in Pharmacology

· Saron Kidanemariam – 6th in Pharmacology

· Susan Maeda – 4th in Prepared Speaking

· Giselle Ayala – 1st in Research Poster

All students placing in the top 3 of each event qualified for the International Leadership Conference that is being held in Nashville, Tennessee, this June.

Sioux City HOSA’s Youla Tricia Onayon was additionally recognized as the Outstanding HOSA Leader for her immense dedication to Iowa HOSA. Sumeyo Noor was elected to the 2022-2023 State Executive Council as Secretary. Congrats, nonetheless, to the Sioux City HOSA Chapter for a successful and remarkable year!

IA-20151 Misty Cadet Corps floored three competition teams on 12 March at Abraham Lincoln High School. The three teams consisted of Unarmed Regulation Drill, Color Guard, and for the first time, Unarmed Exhibition Drill Team. Since the cadets started practicing in August everyone was hoping that hard work, dedication, commitment, and loyalty would reap the awards. AND YES THEY DID!

Unarmed Exhibition Team placed First out of 5 teams.

Unarmed Regulation Drill placed Second out of 13 teams
and

Color Guard placed Third out of 23 teams.

It was an honor to watch and cheer our teams to their outstanding and well-deserved placings.

On 26 March, Misty Cadets headed to Sioux Falls to showcase months of work at their second competition of the year. The team has been practicing since August to ready themselves for the rigorous competitions. Sioux Falls was especially tough because we needed to add two more teams to be somewhat competitive: Unit Inspection and Junior Varsity Color Guard. Our placings were Outstanding based on the competition rules. In order of placing:

Unarmed Exhibition Team: First Place...crushing the competition by 25 points. SPECIAL NOTE: Only our second time competing with this team…oh, we won the first time as well!

Inspection Team: Second Place...missed first by 1 point

Varsity Color Guard: Third Place

Junior Varsity Color Guard: Tied for Third; however, we didn't have the team to break the tie.

BUT NOT NEXT YEAR!

The cadets finished strong...Misty Cadets really do impress judges, and other competing schools with their professionalism and discipline. Misty teams are no different than any team at the high school to include football, basketball, track, or soccer. It demands the same skills, determination, commitment and loyalty to the team. They show up every day at 0600 and practice until departing for school. They spend a minimum of 2 weeks preparing their uniforms just to compete for 6 hours. They deserve recognition and appreciation for what they do! It takes special students to commit, sometimes 4 years to these teams. These are extraordinary and selfless human beings! We thank them all for representing the Sioux City Community School District.

We are grateful to Mandy and the entire staff at Girls Inc, for their facility and their endless support.

Special Note: next year we will be adding: Armed Regulation Drill and Armed Exhibition Drill.

So, "who are we?" WE ARE MISTY...WE SHOW UP, WE PUT UP AND WE GO HOME. HOO-RAH!

This school year, the District will again offer the ACT to all students in the junior class. The test will be administered during the regular school day on Tuesday, April 5. All junior students are required to attend school and participate in the ACT exam. The fee for the exam is provided courtesy of the District. Students in the freshman, sophomore, and senior classes will not have school on April 5. If you have questions, please contact our office.

Principal: Katie Towler

Website: https://www.siouxcityschools.org/sioux-city-career-academy/
Location: 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA, USA
Phone: 712-279-6668
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiouxCityCareerAcademy/
Twitter: @SCCareerAcademy

The Sioux City Community School District offers career and technical programs in the following areas: Business & Marketing, Family & Consumer Science, Health Science, and Industrial Arts, Technology, & PLTW.

The Sioux City Community School District is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information (for employment), national origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status (for programs), marital status (for programs), or veteran status (for employment) in its educational programs and its employment practices. The District is required by Title IX and 34 CFR Part 106 not to discriminate on the basis of sex in its programs, activities, or employment.

Inquiries or grievances under Section 504 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act may be directed to Dr. Dora Jung, Director of Student Services & Equity Education/Title IX Coordinator at 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, jungd@live.siouxcityschools.com. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and its regulations to the District may be referred to the Title IX Coordinator, the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, or both. Please see District Board policies 103 and 504.4 for additional information on available grievance procedures.