Competition is the Spice of Life Firebaugh High School Career Technical Education Department Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified School District

Move Your Body Can Everyone please stand in lines and make sure you’re arms length away from one another.

Move Your Body

COMPETITION TIME!! Let’s circle up… It’s dance off time… show us those amazing dance moves!!

COMPETITION TIME!! DANCE BATTLE WINNERS!

Introductions Ryan Dirlam Alisa Kirk Susie Phillips Elizabeth Lopez Gene Lieb

Objective The ever changing workplace is competitive, fastpace, and challenging, and how we can prepare the best and brightest to enter new and changing professions. In the next hour and a half together, you will spend time seeing how Firebaugh High School students have been challenged to try new activities and competitions to be successful after high school. Welcome to... Competition is the Spice of Life.

Today’s Goals Encourage competition in your classroom. Success has value! Get them ready now, competition is part of life!

Goal #1: Encourage competition in your classroom Builds and reinforces the idea of working hard Everything takes effort Success doesn’t come to those that ask, but to those that are willing to go and grab it!!

SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY It is time for you to do some poster work… please get into your table groups, take a moment and think about competition, it doesn't have to be an official competition, but lets share on that poster some ideas about how you use competition in your classroom. It can be anything, be creative, if you don’t think you have something what could you do... maybe think about what you have thought of in the first 15 minutes of this workshop. You have 3 minutes... Go!!

SHARE OUT LOUD TWO GROUPS...WHAT TWO GROUPS WOULD LIKE TO SHARE?

READ IT, WRITE IT, POST IT Can all groups take a moment to post your posters on the back wall!

COMPETITION TIME!! Mini Competition #1 Please don’t touch the bags being placed in the middle of you table until I say go…

Rules You need to use the contents of the bag to make the tallest structure you can in two minutes. Any questions… On your mark, get set, GO!

COMPETITION TIME! Mini Competition #2 Those groups not still competing, select a group and cheer on the team you think is going to win it all!! In this competition, you will select one person to become the mummy, pick that individual now… Now, you will have three minutes to wrap your mummy, they need to look like a mummy!! Any Questions?? On your mark, get set, GO!

COMPETITION TIME! Mini Competition #3 This is for all the marbles This is not timed!! First team finished is the winner! Who can make a perfect pyramid with the supplies given, one cup looks different, it goes in the middle!! On your mark, get set, GO!

WINNERS!!!

Note Card!!! ONE WORD!!

Goal #2: Success has value… Grades Competencies or skills Ability to recite objectives

Career Skills Challenge Local County

Firebaugh High School Local Career Skills Video presentation of the Firebaugh High School Local Career Skills

Firebaugh High School Local Career Skills Awards Presentation The winners receive awards for their hard work!!

Your BIG Idea? It is now time for your to be your own creator… Take 10 minutes to complete an idea from start to finish for your school or department! Be creative and plan the event on the piece of paper given We will be walking around and at seven minutes we will select the top three posters to present!! Any Questions…? On your mark, get set, GO!

COMPETITION TIME! Let’s get excited and get those three groups up front to present!!

Winners!!

READ IT, WRITE IT, POST IT Can all groups take a moment to post your posters on the back wall!

Goal #3 Get them ready now, competition is a part of life… A competition is a great way to challenge students. In the classroom and on the fly gets them ready for competitions, in your class and life. Life is a competition, so use that to your advantage!

Competition Time!! Mini Competition Ankle Taping Salad Prep Story Telling

Competitors We need 12 competitors!!

Competitor Release!! Ankle Taping - Alisa Kirk Story Telling - Susie Phillips Salad Prep - Gene Lieb

Salad Prep You have two bags and five minutes! What will you create!! Go!

Ankle Taping You have one minute each to tape an ankle!! You will each go one at a time! On your mark, get set, go!

Story Telling You will each have two minutes to present your story. You will go one at a time. On your mark, get set, GO!

Winners

Final Thoughts!! NOTE CARDS