Beeeeeeee Supportive!

Folks, did you know you can eat fresh, locally grown fruits and veggies while also supporting EVIT? It's the ultimate multi-tasking!


EVIT is a pick-up site for Green Bee Produce, an organization that sells fresh and local produce, breads and bakery. The products are tasty AND cheaper than what you find in a grocery store because Green Bee doesn't have to transport it for miles and miles.

All you have to do is place your order by midnight each Monday and you can pick up your fruit box, salad pack, cinnamon swirl bread or granola on Wednesday. Pick up times at EVIT are 10:30 a.m. to noon and 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Health Science Center.

The best part (at least for us): A portion of the money you spend goes right back to EVIT to support the Health Sciences students!

Check out all the products here. You can enjoy some honey whole wheat bread while your pup enjoys some beef dog cookies. Yum!

Sittin' pretty

The second-year Interior Design students wrapped up a big project this week -- the chairs that will be featured in the annual Spring Fashion Show later this year.

The Interior Design and Fashion Merchandising students are collaborating for the second year in a row for a special feature during the show. Fashion students will design garments that coordinate with the Interior Design chairs. The second-year Interior Design students presented their chairs to a panel of students and administrators.

The students were given themes, such as travel, art, music and people. From those themes, students had to find a more specific inspiration.

Here are a couple of the finished chairs:



To see more pictures of the chairs and presentations, click here.

Video students put their skills to good use

EVIT Video Productions students are working hard to freshen up the promotional video used by staff to spread the word about the school. The students can be spotted, camera in tow, visiting classrooms across campus. This morning, they grabbed some footage of the mock operating room over in the Health Sciences Center.


Stay tuned for the final product! I'll post it here when it's complete.

Introducing...

.... this year's Mr. and Ms. EVIT finalists!

AM classes

Ms. finalists
Rachel Howard
Kadalena Abraham
Mariah DeWald
Lauren Sparks
Hailey Reimus
Shelby Montgomery
Kayla Clyde

Mr. finalists
Christian Milano
Michael Shirley
Chase Deal

PM classes

Ms. finalists
Arye Lopez
Patricia Delmar
Skyler Harmon
Bianca Du Prey

Mr. finalists
Hugo Moreno
Cody Cave

EVIT students will chose a Mr. and Ms. EVIT from the morning and afternoon to represent their classes at various school-wide events, including EVIT Expo and the Completion Ceremony. Students vote by donating money into their favorite candidate's jar (located at the front desk in Building 1). The candidates with the most money by 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 29 (at EVIT Expo!) will be crowned the new Mr. and Ms. EVIT!

Students attended assemblies today to meet their candidates. The candidates introduced themselves, told the students a little bit about them, and then did a little dancing.

(From left to right, Radio teacher Steve Grosz, Mariah, Rachel, Kadalena, Shelby, Kayla, Hailey, and Lauren)

(From left to right: Christian, Mr. Grosz, Chase, and Michael)

(Arye, Bianca, Skyler, Patricia, Hugo and Cody show off their best moves.)

All money collected will be donated to the Mesa United Way. Last year's candidates raised about $1,000 -- Let's see if we can top that this year!

Last year's winners: Monica Leftwich and Cruz Olguin in PM and Marc Reidhead and Charity Fuller in AM.

Advice from the Superintendent

EVIT Superintendent Dr. Sally Downey stopped by the PM medical assisting class last week to talk with students about what it is like to be a woman in a leadership role.

The students - most of who are female - were exploring different possible careers, and Dr. Downey wanted to tell them to find their passion and pursue it.

"It is so important to find out what your passion is and then work in it," Dr. Downey said. "If your passion is what you're doing every day, it's not work. Do it because it's something that makes you really, really happy, because if it makes you happy, you'll be good at it."

Dr. Downey also said that the students should strive to never stop learning, regardless of what path they take after EVIT.

"Education is the best insurance policy you can have because nobody can ever take that away from you," she told the students.

Concrete pouring and... a starter home?

I stopped over in construction today to see what they were up to. An official from Okland Construction (they're the company building the addition to EVIT's Health Science Center) was there, teaching students how to pour concrete:


That was pretty cool. But then something else caught my attention. Last year, the students made miniature houses. They started out like this:


And looked like this (with a little decorating assistance from the Interior Design students) by the end of the school year:


Pretty impressive, right? Well, this year, they're setting their sights a little bigger. Here is the start of this year's project:

I'll keep tabs on it and will post some more pictures once it's all done and I've moved in. ;)

EVIT fashion students make over Barbie

EVIT fashion students gave Barbie a makeover last semester for Mystic Paper, a paper arts and scrapbook store in downtown Mesa.

Here is a sneak peak at what they did:

To see photos of the rest of the amazing designs, check out all the Mystic Paper blog, or stop by Mystic Paper to see them in person.