West Valley Takes Top Four Spots in CWU's "Many Faces of Entrepreneurship."

What's your business idea that's going to change the world?

That is the question asked today of students attending the Central Washington University  College of Business', "Many Faces of Entrepreneurship."

Students designed a business idea, constructed business plans, and made presentations to a panel of entrepreneurs.  

West Valley students landed in the top four teams with four West Valley students earning top honors.

Congratulations to.

- Kyle McClean

- Sophie Milford

- Ramiro Huerta

- Taylor Dunn

Special accommodation was award to the lone Junior High students from West Valley Junior High.  Caitlyn Pham was selected as the, "Many Faces MVP."  

West Valley Sweeps Washington LifeSmarts

West Valley Financial Algebra travelled to Central Washington University today for the annual LifeSmarts competition.

West Valley teams won both first and second in the LifeSmarts State Competition.  

Competition includes online and live competitions. Students who participate in the program begin competition online. The highest scoring teams are invited to in-person live state championships. State-wide competitions are locally coordinated by state partnering organizations and agencies. In states without a state coordinator, NCL hosts a virtual state championship. State winners are invited to the National LifeSmarts Championship held in a different city every April.

Students Teaching Students with Junior Achievement

On Tuesday, Feb. 11^th, West Valley High School had thirty-five Hs students take over the entire second grade classrooms at Summitview and Apple Valley Elementaries. They taught five common core aligned lessons where students learned about money, jobs, taxes, running a business and other features of Our Community  (JA). 

Commendations have been coming from principals, teachers and the program coordinator for Junior Achievement. Feedback has been positive about how professional the students were, how engaged the elementary  students were.  Second graders left stating that this was the best day ever. 

Special thanks to these West Valley Rams.

Darby Bailey

Cara Edwards

Maisie Sundquist

Abby Potts

Gracie Speer

Jeff Garibay

Alex Terry

Lauren Reed

Ashlee Davis

Maddie Terry

Cassie Maybee

Jordan Farris

Racheal Chouinard

Loghan Thorn

Orlando Ibarra

Colton McKinney

Kaidyn Miller

Tucker Frank

Trinity Ferreira

Raevyn Blair

Austin Creasy

Maddie Cook

Iza Juarez

Grace Clift

Maddie Brocks

Emma Packard

Haley Thompson

Zach Dodge

Alberto Naranjo

Sam Bagnall

Chucky Emerick

Braiden Wilson

Annie Jo Tkacz

Dani Harmon

Core Plus Takes West Valley Students to New Heights

As part of the West Valley and Core Plus Partnership is the Boeing Internship.  Students spend five weeks living in dorms while interning on the Boeing Campus.  

Michael O'Neill from Boeing Aerospace spoke with West Valley Core Plus Aerospace students about the multiple career options ahead of them today.  

As a Core Plus member school, West Valley students recieve support in applications and interviews for careers at Boeing.  Member schools recieve program support from Subject Matter Experts within the Core Plus program who visit and assess students.  Teacher professional development is tailored to our student needs.

Learn more about the Core Plus Internship here:

https://coreplusaerospace.org/2020internship/

Forensics host regional Skills USA

Wednesday, January 22nd, students in the West Valley forensics club hosted the regional Skills USA Competition.  Students competed in knowledge areas around collecting evidence, maintaining a controlled and safe crime scene, and dusting and comparing finger prints.  

DECA Qualifies for State

Students from West Valley High School competed at the DECA regional competition this winter.  The top Business and Marketing students from across the Yakima Valley came together all vying for a spot at the DECA State Conference.  

Big congratulations to West Valley students meeting the mark. 

• 1st place - Cara Edwards - Start Up Business Plan
• 1st place -  Carl Stampe - Sports & Entertainment marketing 
• 1st place -  Daniel Marinace & Gracie Evans - Sports & Entertainment Team
• 1st place  - Nina Okubo - Professional Selling - Financial Consulting
• 1st place  - Leah Hawkins - Apparel & Accessories marketing
• 2nd place -  Rachel Argento - Accounting
• 2nd place  - Jasleen Hans - Hotel & Lodging
• 2nd place  - Isabella De La Combe - Human Resources Management
• 2nd place  - Allysa Miles - Hospitality & Tourism Professional Selling
• 2nd place  - Teryn Bunting - Professional Selling
• 3rd place  - Taylor Nelson - Human Resources Management
• 3rd place  - Emma Dunn - Hospitality & Tourism Professional Selling 
• 3rd place  - Abigail Pitts - Professional Selling
• 3rd place  - Kiana Griffiths - Restaurant & Food Marketing

WASA Hotline Feature Story on AIR/AASA Visit to West Valley

West Valley Team - This is a feature in the recent WASA Hotline that goes to all 1,000 or so members of the Washington Association of School Administrators. This article highlighted our recent visit by the American Institute of Research researcher on behalf of the American Association of School Administrators. Congrats to Cottonwood Kindergarten teacher Abigail Ferguson and her student Noah for being the face of our visit! 

This was just one of the many visits that were provided to the AIR researcher during her December 10-12 visit to West Valley. Thank you again to everyone who did such a great job those days in providing the interviews necessary for our story on Personalized Learning!