Newsletter-Early-Week

Northwest Missouri Enterprise Facilitation Celebrates Businesses

Northwest Missouri Enterprise Facilitation (NWMEF) hosted its Annual Banquet, drawing over 100 attendees from across the region, including county commissioners and city officials from Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, and Worth counties.. The evening celebrated the spirit of entrepreneurship and recognized the important role of community support in helping local businesses thrive.Guests had the opportunity to hear firsthand from local business owners who shared how NWMEF’s services have contributed to their growth and success.

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FCCLA Members Experience State Government Firsthand in Jefferson City

Forty-five enthusiastic junior and senior members of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) participated in the annual Missouri Legislative Shadowing Project held April 8–9 in the state’s capitol.Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is a nonprofit national Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) for students enrolled in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) education programs through grade 12. With the family as its central focus, FCCLA is the only national CTSO that promotes personal growth and leadership development through family and consumer sciences education.

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North Central students place at state SkillsUSA competition

North Central Missouri College sent three teams to compete in the Robotics Automation Technology contest for the Missouri SkillsUSA State Competition on April 11.The contest was held at State Tech Community College in Lynn, Mo."The teams placed first, second, and third," said Rick Sharp, Industrial Technology Instructor and Coordinator. "The students were outstanding and they worked very hard."Students were asked to create a small factory robotic process that sorted materials of metal and plastic, good parts and bad parts, by palletizing the metal and plastic parts.The robot would move the parts through the process to test the parts for its drilled holes.The teams had approximately two hours to complete the process and move to the PLC Programmable Logic Controller Station where they would program PLC and be judged on time of process and efficiency.The winners will be moving on to the national competition in Georgia..

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