Health Occupations Students Step Up

Caritas Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) recently joined the list of clubs offered to Camden High students. The club is dedicated to equipping students with the professional behavior, appearance, and knowledge needed to obtain and maintain a career in the healthcare industry. HOSA participated in their first community service event, Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Over seventy members participated by designing and selling t-shirts, organizing and running a paint booth, cupcake walk, and a “Chain of Hope” station. The students raised $1,478.00, almost tripling their goal of $500. Pictured (left to right): Andrew Sessions, Jade Daniels, and Cheyenne Daniels.

CCHS Science Students Clean Up Community

Camden County High School science students in Julie Parsons’ and Theresa Lyster’s classes volunteered to clean out an invasive species of Apple Snails in the Lakes Subdivision in Kingsland. These snails are harmful to the local ecosystem because they reproduce at an extremely rapid rate and consume all the food sources for native species.
“The kids were awesome! All dozen that came out were so enthusiastic. They just jumped right in, commented teacher Julie Parsons.Freshman, Desmond Fogle, said, “It was a lot of fun! I would love to do it again.”
The clean-up was sponsored by the DNR and Georgia Extension.

                                                     St. Marys Sharks Enjoy PBIS Pep Rally
St. Marys Elementary school recently kicked off a new year of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) by holding two pep rallies to remind students of the expected behaviors throughout the school. During the first pep rally, our kindergarten through second grade classes learned how to put their “fins up” when a quiet time is needed! They watched how the SMES Super Shark and other students correctly sit at the cafeteria tables, taking care of their food, their noise level and their trash. The students also learned the “Five Finger” strategy for getting assistance while they are eating. To learn more about this "fin"tastic pep rally, click here.

Cadets Visit Moody Air Force Base

Junior ROTC cadets from Camden County High School visited Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. During this visit, the cadets received briefs on a wide range of career opportunities that the Air Force offers. Cadets also had the opportunity to interact with Air Force personnel and equipment and to consider if it might be for them.The response from the cadets was resounding. To learn more about the visit, click here.

NJROTC Walks to End Alzheimer’s

At the community event, Walk to End Alzheimer’s, in downtown St. Marys, twenty-five Camden County High School NJROTC cadets provided invaluable assistance. Prior to the event, they helped to set up tables and tents, filled balloons, placed out signs, decorated, and registered over 200 participants. As part of the opening ceremonies CCHS NJROTC Color Guard presented the colors. During the ceremony, the cadets walked with participants to show their support for ending Alzheimer’s. After the event and all its festivities had concluded, they helped to clean up the area. Pictured (left to right): Aaron Clark, Sandra Szewczuk, Marionna Welch.

CCHS Students Earn Gold at National Skills USA Competition

Congratulations to our  three SkillsUSA National Champions! Knute Jones, Brooke Butler and Nancy Marquez earned gold medals at the national Skills USA competition held this summer in Louisville, Kentucky. Over 6000 state winners from all over the country competed at the national level but only a very few walked away as gold medal national champions. Knute earned the gold in Industrial Motor Control and Brooke and Nancy won the gold medal in Occupational Health and Safety. These outstanding students make Camden proud and they have very bright futures ahead of them!

Middle School Students Visit the Jaguars

CMS and SMMS applied for a grant with the Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation through the NFL Play 60 Program.  It is the Jaguars Foundation’s desire to support the NFL PLAY 60 campaign to tackle childhood obesity by getting sixth graders more active through in-school, afterschool, team-based programs and online child-targeted outreach.  To kick off the program, the Jaguars foundation invited 80 students and 20 staff members and 2 bus drivers between both schools to attend the September 25th Jaguar game against the Baltimore Ravens. Click here to learn more.

CCHS Honor Roll Breakfast Rewards Good Grades

Camden County High School A Honor Roll students win three hundred dollars each in a drawing at the 2016 A-Honor Roll    Breakfast. Senior Taylor Coffel, who has won the drawing twice, commented, “I was so surprised to win again! It’s great that the school rewards us for good grades. It makes me want to work harder!” Pictured from left to right: senior, Taylor Coffel; junior,  Matthew Dubois; sophomore, Brandon Tighe.