And the perfect attendance finalists are...

EVIT administrators held two perfect attendance assemblies today to congratulate students who have come to school every single day this year and to draw names out of a basket to see who will have a shot at winning this truck:


The AM students who were picked were Christopher Roberts from Allied Health, and Ashley Hammon from cosmetology:


The PM students were Brenda Garay from MC 10 and Jacob Snider from PMT:


On Monday afternoon, each student will receive a key to try to start the truck. The student whose key starts the truck wins and can drive it home that day! The other three will receive Best Buy gift cards.

Good luck!

"Crime scene" in Biotechnology

I headed over to the biotechnology class earlier this week, and when I arrived, this is what greeted me:


Inside, there was a pretty gruesome murder scene, complete with bloody shoe prints:


The biotechnology class was hosting students from the MC10 class, teaching them about forensics and how to gather clues at a crime scene.


They talked about DNA and fingerprinting, and showed off some cool technology that can help create a sketch of a suspect:

It all very "CSI EVIT"!

Swatting their way to victory...

The EVIT Health Foundations class held their annual, end-of-the-year Fly Swatter Tournament Championship on Wednesday.

Sharon Black and Jon Howell's classes challenged each other to the only medical terminology face-off (that I know of) that involves fly swatters. I wasn't sure what to expect when I showed up for the afternoon classes' competition, but I saw this on the white board:


And students in t-shirts made just for the challenge:


One student at a time from each class would come forward, and they would be given a medical definition. The first student to "swat" the correct definition earns a point for their team. Over the course of the year, the students have learned 350 medical terms, so this is no easy feat.

There were three rounds of intense play:


And the winner, by one point ... Mr. Howell's class! (But that's ok, because Ms. Black's morning class won by five points.)

All the students had a great time and got together for a group photo:


And then we convinced Mr. Howell and Ms. Black to join in:

The great MC 10 egg drop

Students in the MC 10 class have been learning about the layers of the skull and brain. To drive the point home about how fragile the head can be, students were challenged to come up with a "helmet" for an egg and drop it from the Health Sciences Center balcony.

The students worked together in groups of three and each group got the same supplies for their "helmet": Styrofoam plates, rubber bands, napkins, straws and toothpicks.


They had a half hour to protectively encase their eggs. The groups who were successful would get extra credit points.


It was a happy ending for all the eggs involved: none of them broke!