Forsyth Tech Opens Onsite Child Care Program to Train Early Childhood Ed Students

Forsyth Tech’s new Early Childhood LAB School

features a bright, contemporary, age-appropriate and stimulating

learning environment for children ages 3 to 5 years old.

"(Winston-Salem, NC) – Forsyth Tech has opened an Early Childhood LAB School at 2410 Oak Grove Center on the college’s Main Campus in Winston-Salem that is designed to provide Early Childhood Education students with onsite supervised, hands-on teaching experience and instruction. The program is open to Forsyth Tech faculty and students as well as the general public and is now accepting applications.  

The LAB school has been created for children ages 3 to 5 with a maximum capacity of 15 children. The half-day program runs Monday through Friday from 8 am to noon, giving children up to four hours of participation in an enriching and well-planned environment. The best-practices program is designed to stimulate growth and development, meeting the individual needs of each child. The daily curriculum includes indoor and outdoor activities, art, music, math, science, language and literacy, dramatic play, gross and fine motor coordination, and technology. Nutritious snacks are also provided. There is a one-time registration fee of $75 and tuition is $300 per month per child.

“We are so excited about the opening of our Early Childhood LAB school—our vision for this teaching facility has been 15 years in the making,” says Karatha Scott, the lab school coordinator. “This program is vital to the training of our early childhood education students, and provides them with the same level of expert training, instruction and supervision that’s available at four-year institutions. It represents an investment in the future as most of our students will get jobs right here in our local community after they graduate.”

Forsyth Tech Early Childhood Education interns are carefully supervised and coached by certified teachers who possess strong backgrounds in early childhood education and who mentor the students in how to administer quality, nurturing care in an environment that is developmentally appropriate, stimulating and comfortable.

Parents are welcome to interact with their children via the Observation Room or Parent-Resource Corner, which is stocked with age-appropriate books, games, technology, book packs and other academic materials that are available for parents to check out. The Parent-Resource Corner was created through a $23,000 grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Foundation and is designed to develop literacy pathways with innovative school-to-home and home-to-school learning options for parents and their children.

The LAB school schedule will align with Forsyth Tech’s academic calendar year schedule.

For more information, contact Karatha Scott at 336.734.7974 or kscott@forsythtech.edu.

Visit: https://www.forsythtech.edu/early-childhood-lab-school/."

- A Press Release

12 Forsyth Tech Diesel & Heavy Equipment Students Receive Scholarships from NC Transportation Maintenance Council

Twelve Forsyth Tech Diesel and Heavy Equipment students

received scholarships from the North Carolina Transportation Maintenance

Council. Six of the scholarship recipients,  seen here with Forsyth Tech instructors

Allen Doub (far left) and Axel Torres (second from left), are (left to right) Kinley Jones,

Cole Mauldin, Justin Simmons, Ethan Simmons, Dakota Smith, and Christian McHone.

"(Winston-Salem, NC) – Twelve Forsyth Tech students who will receive their Associates degree in Diesel & Heavy Equipment Technology this May have received scholarships from the North Carolina Transportation Maintenance Council (NCTMC), a major sponsor of the college’s diesel program. NCTMC awarded the scholarships based on the students’ GPA and demonstrated ability to be successful in the field upon graduation.

The students each received a $250 Snap-On Tools gift cards that they can use now to purchase tools to build their personal tool set. Through a student discount program and partnership that Forsyth Tech has developed with Snap-On Tools, current students can purchase tools at steep discounts while enrolled in the program.

The 12 students are Justin Summons, Joseph Slate, Will Smith, Corbin Utt, Dakota Smith, Kinley Jones, Cole Maulden, Ethan Simmons, Isaac Brewster, Christian McHone, Tanner Reeves and Dallas Smith.

“We are proud that the NCTMC recognized the quality of these students who will be work-ready from day one when they graduate,” says Allen Doub, program coordinator for the Diesel & Heavy Equipment Technology program. “We are also proud that as our partner, NCTMC considers our program to be one of the best in the country. We’ve worked very hard to get our program the recognition it deserves to ensure our students receive the highest level of education and training available today.”

The NCTMC also recognized two other diesel students, Daniel Hanna, who came in first in the country in the Future Tech Challenge, and Cody Styers who finished sixth in the country in the same Challenge last year. The Challenge is sponsored by the American Trucking Association and the Transportation Maintenance Council each year.

As the first-place finisher, Hanna has the opportunity to attend the 2016 TMC Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition in Nashville, TN from February 29 – March 3.

 

The NCTMC Council is an organization of transportation maintenance professionals dedicated to providing a forum for people to share information. The Council’s goal is to promote professional maintenance practices, new technologies, products and processes to improve maintenance practices, and network with suppliers and peers in the industry. The NCTMC also works with local, state and federal agencies to promote safer highways through proper safety and maintenance training. The Council also provides scholarships to students to support the training of new professional maintenance personnel and other developmental programs through North Carolina community colleges."

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Forsyth Tech Welcomes North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson on Oct. 9

Shelby Stephenson, North Carolina’s current

Poet Laureate, will present a lecture at

Forsyth Tech on October 9,

which is free and open to the public.

Forsyth Tech will be hosting North Carolina Poet Laureate, Shelby Stephenson, for a lecture on Friday, October 9 from 11 am – noon, in the Oak Grove Center Auditorium on the college’s Main Campus, 2100 Silas Creek Parkway.   

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Stephenson is the second Poet Laureate who has visited Forsyth Tech as lecturer in the ongoing Humanities Enrichment Series. This series has been in place for three years and is designed to generate an overall awareness of and appreciation for the humanities and arts for Forsyth Tech’s students, faculty, staff and the public.

Lisa Stanley-Smith, an English instructor at Forsyth Tech and coordinator of the event says, “Most people don’t get the opportunity to sit down and listen to someone so inspirational, talented, and entertaining. Having the North Carolina Poet Laureate visit our school is an honor. It is exciting.”

“I was lucky enough to have Shelby Stephenson as a college instructor during my studies, and can remember his simplistic perspective on writing,” Stanley-Smith recalls. “He used to say, ‘There’s no big trick to writing. Sit down in a quiet place, put pen to paper, and something you write will be good.’”

About poetry, Stephenson himself says, “It’s about the sunset, and the shadows changing on the grass in a different way, all the time. I think the poem is already written. It’s all there to begin with, and has got to be put on the page.”

Stephenson grew up on a small farm in Benson, NC, and uses his pastoral upbringing as inspiration for many of his poems. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and continued his studies at the University of Pittsburgh (M.A.) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.)

Until his retirement in 2010, Stephenson was a professor of English at UNC-Pembroke and editor of Pembroke Magazine.

He has received wide-spread recognition for his work including the Bellday Poetry Prize, the Oscar Arnold Young Award, the Zoe Kincaid-Brockman Award, the Brockman-Campbell Award, the Bright Hill Press Chapbook Prize, and the Playwright’s Fund of North Carolina Chapbook Prize, to name a few.

In 2001, the State of North Carolina presented Stephenson with the North Carolina Award in Literature."

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