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SkillsUSA Vermont 2009

Posted by sherr | Friday, April 10th, 2009 | Comments (18)

Here are some pictures from the Vermont SkillsUSA day on April 9th, 2009.

Quizbowl playing hacky sack after their Quizbowl win. Video in HD from the new Flip HD.

Yeah they weren’t that good, it’s becuase I’m running the camera rather than playing.

Quizbowl Gold being announced for Cawd. They weren’t that excited because they had known that they had won for about 8 hours already and they were coming down from the sugar high.

Here is the GOLD winning website from Mandrake and Muir.

The design was by mandrake, and the coding was done by Muir. The team was provided only with a couple of videos, pictures and text files; and then asked to create a fully functioning and valid website in 4 1/2 hours. They were provided with 2 logos to chose from but decided that neither fit their design, so Mandrake designed a new cleaner logo for the grind. The website also used flash to embed videos into the site validly and lightbox2 to display images.

So this year cawd will be taking 8 kids (9 if you count Trayah, 10 if you count Cronin as well) to the National SkillsUSA Competition in Kansas city this June.

Congratulations to Stowe, Goodie, Shannon, Sagen, Waters, Griggs, Billings, Williams, Muir and Mandrake for representing Cawd at the Vermont SkillsUSA competition and bringing home 9 medals in total.

~Dr. Herr

SkillsUSA update

Posted by sherr | Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | Comments (2)

Quizbowl – Gold

Web design
Mandrake / Muir – Gold
Williams / Billings – Bronze

Pictures and videos tomorrow. To tired to do it tonight and there’s a hockey game onto tonight. Go Cats Go!

As we move to the web design semester….

Posted by mcronin | Monday, December 29th, 2008 | Comments (8)

I just thought I would share one of the reasons that web designers exist, if not to create the new website of Sony or Nintendo, but to help out the local folk, who simply, are really, really bad at making websites.

Make sure the speakers are cranked; check it:

http://yvettesbridalformal.com

Anyway, everyone have a good vacation and see you in 09.

PEACE

~The Cronin

Visit to Lyndon State College

Posted by mcronin | Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Comments (8)

On Friday the CAWD2 students took a trip up to Lyndon State College to check out their programs in Animation & Illustration, Digital Media, and Graphic Design. We were able to meet with the faculty, see samples of student work, and talk to students in the program. It was a nice way to get to see what Lyndon is about, and the options they give our students for life after high school.

We found out that students can do a portfolio review once accepted where their CAWD work can potentially get them out of classes at Lyndon. You get the college credit, but you don’t need to pay, or take the classes if you can demonstrate you already have the knowledge. Seems good to me.

We had lunch with the students / faculty, and all agreed that the french fries were pretty much amazing. The fish sticks….big disappointment.

We also got to see Markus (CAWD ’08) Alex’s brother, randomly in the cafe. The head of the Digital Media program said that “Just last week Markus had done work which blew him away“. So yeah, Markus appears to be doing pretty well. For those that don’t know Markus, he is the one giving the hug to Brian…or here.

….Brian doesn’t look too thrilled……

So yeah….

~ The Cronin

The Chairs are finally dead…

Posted by sherr | Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | Comments (12)

The old CAWD chairs have moved to a farm, where they will have plenty of space to roll around and chair to their hearts content. They truly are in a better place, maybe they will see your first dog there; you know the one your parents sent to that farm to run around and chase cats and just enjoy life all around. I miss Snowball, I wonder how she’s doing at that farm.

So now we have some new chairs in class that aren’t falling apart and squeaky. They also have arms and seat backs that don’t randomly fall off. So just a heads up, you mess around with these chairs, and I may have to send you to live on this farm I was mentioning. Also, the new carpet is in and looks pretty good with the dim lights and the new chairs.

Sadly, for the third straight summer, the tables that are attached to the side wall were not raised up and are still pretty low. So, you might want to get to class early this year or get stuck at the preschool hieght desks, your call.

For you second year, the second projector and screen have been installed so we can watch movies and play 64 when the first years are in English… Just kidding, you second years better be ready to learn some serious Chuck Norris like PHP skills and maybe a little jQuery / Ajax.

See you all Wednesday.