The end is almost here. Its almost time for all us seniors to move on. I know that I’ve been ready for this for 12 years now. I am ready too move on to Rhode State college where I am going to be majoring in manufacturing engineering. This is the time where you get on the highway in life and begin to set of to your distant goals and dreams. I plan on reaching mine in the close years to come.

Another part of graduating that I really look forward to is my graduation party. I have a little over 200 friends and family members coming to celebrate this accomplishment with me. I can’t wait to get the chance to sit down and open all the gifts. I do need to thank my mom because she has spent the whole year planning this party.

This is a great time and I have loved letting you guys in on my life here at Hi-Point.

Just having fun on Pi Day. Few different competitions , but the best was the pie eating so enjoy the video!

Half of our class is doing these little Boe-Bots for the NRC. They have to make it through this maze as fast as possible to be able to get the quickest time down the maze. We go down on a couple days doing various competitions but this maze is a popular competition that people can have fun on. When we get to the competition I will be sure to take some pictures and videos so everyone can see what is going on.

Having fun at breakfast with the lead ambassador officers and our selected juniors. We got the chance to get ready for our upcoming community service projects and talk about the different events that we have coming up in the end of this school year. We have a wonderful group of Lead Ambassadors here at OHP and when you join you should try to become a Lead Ambassador. We get a lot of free food and that is always fun. It helps make you a better speaker and great with communication. It also helps teach self discipline and lets you step out to be a leader.

December 17th a special day for students who have went the extra mile to make an effort for achievement. The Culinary Arts lab students are preparing a catered party for a citizen in Logan County. This person has asked for certain items to be present at his dinner and Ohio Hi-Point’s very own Culinary Arts students have stepped up to the task. The students in Culinary have made six entrees including a fruit & vegetable tray, deviled eggs, bacon-wrapped water chestnuts, which looked absolutely delicious, and they have also cooked up some ramaki which is a food that originated in eastern Asia. It contains chicken, a slice of chestnut and wrapped in bacon. But it doesn’t end with the bacon.  Ramaki can be topped with being slathered in brown sugar. To top it off with a dessert made by the OHP students, they have prepared an Italian dessert known as a Canoli. So today has been a very busy day for the students in Culinary Arts here at Ohio Hi-Point.

The day does not end there, though. Seventeen students made up of both juniors and seniors will be attending a trip to Europe in the summer. These students are not just you average students either. The students that will be attending are some of OHP’s best, they showed excellent grades, devotion to helping the staff and the career center itself with the many fundraisers they participated in. The students saved up exactly, if not over, $2680 so that they may attend a trip from Columbus to Europe. The students, for their efforts, will receive a continental breakfast and dinner every day, all transportation, guided tours, sightseeing tours, travel insurance, and 24 hour EF tour guides. This trip is well-deserved by exceedingly qualified students who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to apply for this trip. Today, these students met together to again show the qualification needed to attend. They met together as a group to work on building team work experience. The students will be spending much time together and will need to learn about each other so that they may better get along. Even before the trip Ohio Hi-Point’s finest students are making preparations so that they may better represent the school.
So as a fellow student I would like to give thanks on behalf of OHP to the seventeen students who are some of the most excellent students that represent our career center as a whole, and also a thanks to the culinary students for preparing a special meal for a local judge, today has shown good representation upon our school with their excellent actions.

After getting certified in Printing and Graphics you can leave Ohio Hi-Point and get a job in the industry. Either working at a store that does a lot of printing for example since we learned screen printing. So working anywhere that screen prints or designs logos or pretty much anything. The Printing and Graphics program teaches a lot of things that can help in the work force. Of course, you can also go to college with what you learn in this lab as well.

My favorite classes here at Ohio Hi-Point is English and I am taking the Humanities course to be able to go to Europe. The Humanities course teaches you a lot of stuff you need to know about Italy such as the history and even the language. It is such an amazing opportunity. I also love English, I love reading and writing and I just love all the stuff we do in class. Ohio Hi-Point has so many amazing opportunities and I love all that we do here.

The Europe Trip through Ohio Hi-Point is where students get together, raise money and pay to go on a trip to Europe. It is our first year doing it, and I am excited to say I am one of the students participating in this wonderful opportunity.
This trip is being run by Mr. Raatz, one of our social studies teachers, Mrs. Blackburn, the Information Technology instructor, and Mrs. Dearth, a science teacher.
To go on the trip we had requirements such as good grades, our homework being in on time and now we are doing a Humanities course on Angel (an online service for our classes) that we have to complete before going. The course consists of learning all about the area (Italy and Germany) and even the language. The trip is scheduled in June and I’m so excited to be one of the students attending. It is an amazing thing and I’m excited that my last trip with the school is going to be so exciting.
I’m mostly excited to learn about a new culture and not just in a book, but to actually go and experience it. Everything there will be so much different from our life, but I know it is a great opportunity and I will learn so much from it.