We honored this year’s bloggers at a special breakfast event this week.  While Shelby, Jason and Olivia will return for their senior years as bloggers next year, we had to say goodbye to our seniors.  Most of them were on-hand (except Ashley K. and Mica).  They really did some awesome things this year and will always be remembered as the FIRST Ohio Hi-Point Career Center student bloggers and the first to document their journey as part of the Hi-Point Journeys campaign.

The seniors had their final step on the journey of their high school careers last night when Ohio Hi-Point held their Convocation ceremony. Here’s photos of some of our bloggers at the ceremony.

We congratulate our senior bloggers: Daniel, Taylor, Mica, Mikki, Ashley B., Shana, Ashley K.,  Michael, Samantha, Rebekah.  Best wishes on the next part of the journey.

Daniel and Shana were crowned Prom 2010 King and Queen at last night’s Prom.  The Prom was held at the Bellefontaine campus with the theme “Masquerade.”  Daniel and Shana are both Journeys bloggers and enrolled in the Health Technology program.  Congrats to them both!

You can see more Prom photos here.

The bloggers will be taking a little break from writing about their journeys at Ohio Hi-Point Career Center during winter break.  They will back in early January to begin the second half of their senior years and to begin the second half of documenting their experiences here on this blog.  In the meantime, check out their holiday greeting video here.

Also, make sure to visit their Flickr page and YouTube Channel to watch past videos and look at photo albums.

And make sure you visit the blog again in January!

The Hi-Point Journeys bloggers were busy at last week’s Taste of the Future Open House and Career Preview Expo.  Nearly 500 people attended the event, including nearly 300 sophomores and their parents!  Here, Mikki, Ashley B. and Rebekah, give a radio interview to WPKO’s Bill Tipple, who was doing a live radio broadcast from the event that night.

If you missed out on this event, contact us at 937-599-3010, ext. 1200 or email JoEtta Spain at jspain@ohp.k12.oh.us to set up a Tech Tuesday visit.  There is still time to check out our programs and apply, but you need to move fast, as many of our programs fill up fast!

On Thursday, November 19th, high school sophomores and juniors (to explore our two senior-only programs) can visit OHP during the annual Taste of the Future Open House and Career Preview Expo between 4-7:30 p.m.  While our bloggers are giving you a first-hand look at life inside the Career Center for students, we invite you to visit labs, explore opportunities, visit with colleges and start planning your academic future and your career pathway during this event.  It is the biggest event we hold every year!

Sophomores can fan our Hi-Point Journeys Facebook Page and post on the wall what programs they are interested in and what they want to do in the future and then will be entered into a drawing for either an iPod Touch or Flip Cam (just like our student bloggers use to film).  The drawing will take place the night of the Taste of the Future.

For more information on the evenings activities, the restaurants that will be on-hand to provide menu samplings, what colleges will be there and what other vendors and activities will be taking place, visit our Taste of the Future page on our website.

The FlipCams arrived Monday and the students are now in possession of one of the coolest pieces of technology!  These will allow them to provide video of their journeys throughout the year.

You can check out their videos (Taylor and Shana have already posted some) on the Hi-Point Journeys YouTube Channel.

Welcome to the journey of 10 Ohio Hi-Point Career Center students.  They are not only students, but seniors, just 10 months away from entering the “real” world.  The senior year can be filled with anxieties, triumphs, successes, failures, new experiences, lofty expectations, worry and the realization that life is about to take a life-changing turn.  For these 10 seniors, their journey, filled with all of these experiences and emotions, will be documented through Ohio Hi-Point’s “Hi-Point Journeys” project.  10 people. 10 months. One amazing journey.  They all share in common the decision to finish their high school careers in career-technical programs.  They all share the fact that they will be more prepared for college, for life, for a career.  But what is it like to make that decision to be a student at OHP?  What is it like to leave your home school and enter a new building with students from 14 school districts in five counties?  What is like to spend half the day in rigorous academic classes and the other half in a lab that prepares you to meet the demands of today’s workforce while also preparing you for college programs?  What is it like to be an OHP student?

This was what we wanted to find out.  What a better way to do just that than by allowing 10 different students to tell their stories.  They will blogging here, posting videos on their YouTube Channel and posting pictures on their Flickr page.  We invite you to follow their journey, ask them questions, respond to their blogs, and watch as these 10 students spend their final year in high school at OHP on a journey towards the rest of their lives.