At Notre Dame Academy's annual Career Week, students learned about career options through various activities and speakers. They heard from professionals in different fields and participated in career skills workshops on topics like networking, etiquette, interviewing and using LinkedIn. The goal was to help students explore careers and gain skills to be successful after graduation. New this year were business dining and networking sessions in response to local employers emphasizing the importance of these skills. Students in grades 7-8 also heard from professionals in fashion design and marketing.

1. At Notre Dame Academy’s
annual Career Week, students
took time off from their stud-
ies to learn about their
choices after they graduate.
Students saw career-related
demonstrations, practiced
network building, and heard
speakers to help them in all
aspects of choosing a career.
Students chose to listen to
a variety of speakers from a
list of professionals that were
selected from the Toledo 20
Under 40 winners, local lead-
ers, alumnae and careers
where the students have com-
municated great interest. New
this year was a Business Din-
ing Etiquette Seminar and a
Networking Boot Camp. “In
working with local busi-
nesses and leaders the com-
mon thread mentioned was
etiquette and networking
skills,” explained Mrs. Anas-
tasia Desmond, NDA career
counselor. “Our focus is to
ensure that our students are
equipped with the essential
tools to be successful and un-
derstand how to conduct
themselves in a professional
setting.”
Mock interviews, body
language awareness, a career
track activity, speaking skills,
resume and cover letter build-
ing were also included in the
experiences.Another new ini-
tiative that NDA has imple-
mented this year is all seniors
are required to take a
LinkedIn seminar where they
discover the importance of
LinkedIn in their future ca-
reer/internship exploration.
Students in seventh and
eighth grades welcomed fash-
ion designer, local celebrity
and winner of Project Run-
away Junior Maya Ramirez,
and Stephanie Elton, director
of social media and market-
ing communications from the
Toledo Museum of Art. Ac-
cording to Ms. Ramirez, find-
ing a balance between school
and designing is sometimes
difficult, but school is always
first. Students asked her how
she became a contestant and
if she still talks to anyone
from the show.
This year’s high school
speakers featured, doctors,
nurses, financial planners, at-
torneys, air traffic controllers,
entrepreneurs, professors,
radio personalities, econo-
mists, architecture, and engi-
neers.
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Owens to host transportation technologies
career fair on Wednesday, March 16
Owens Community Col-
lege will host the 2016 career
fair for transportation tech-
nology industries Wednes-
day, March 16, in the
transportation technologies
building on Owens’ Toledo-
area campus, 30335 Oregon
Road, Perrysburg.
The career fair will be bro-
ken out into two different
sessions. The first will be
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. fo-
cused toward high school
students and the second from
4 to 7 p.m. for a general au-
dience. However, members
of the community are wel-
come to attend either ses-
sion.
Students and community
members will have the op-
portunity to meet with repre-
sentatives from the
automotive, diesel heavy
truck, agricultural equip-
ment, construction equip-
ment and collision industries.
Industry representatives will
be searching for employees
to fill current positions as
well as students looking for
paid internships in conjunc-
tion with Owens.
Interested attendees should
bring a resume and high
school portfolio/transcripts
and be prepared to speak to
potential employers and/or
Owens personnel regarding
internship programs starting
in fall 2016.
In addition, Owens faculty
and staff from the College’s
Transportation Technologies
department will be available
to answer questions for those
interested in careers as auto-
motive, diesel, auto collision
repair, agricultural equip-
ment and construction equip-
ment technicians. Owens’
Transportation Technologies
currently offers seven de-
grees and four certificate pro-
grams.
For more information,
please visit www.owens.edu
or call 567-661-7388 or 1-
800-GO-OWENS, Ext. 7388.
Woofstock will return on
Wednesday, March 16 from 3
to 6 p.m. at Perrysburg High
School, sponsored by Key
Club.
All members of the public
are welcome to join in the fun
event to support the Wood
County Humane Society.
There will be free food,
live music by Malik Khali-
fani, activities and a speaker
from the Wood County Hu-
mane Society.
Founded by student
Chloey Sniecinski, the event
offers opportunities to make
some fun toys for animals
housed at the Humane Soci-
ety.
Donations for the Humane
Society will be accepted, such
as dog/cat food, treats, toys,
beds or money.
Woofstock
returns
to PHS
Girl Scouts spring break day
camp offered at Camp Miakonda
Girl Scouts of Western
Ohio is offering a Spring
Break Day Camps. Session
one will be held on Tuesday
and Wednesday, March 29
and 30. Session two will be
held Thursday, March 31
and Friday, April 1. Both
camps are from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m., at Camp Miakonda
5600 West Sylvania Avenue,
Toledo.
The cost of the program
will be $15, which covers the
Girl Scout membership fee.
Specifically designed for
girls in grades K-5 who have
not yet had the opportunity to
participate in Girl Scouts,
Spring Break Day Camp in-
troduces them to all of the
fun things that make Girl
Scouts memorable—friend-
ship, adventure and fun.
Participants will be in-
volved in storytelling creative
expression, crafts, games and
singing.
Find out more about this
Spring Break Day Camp at
gswo.org/springbreak and
discover how to join at
gswo.org/join or call 800-
860-4516.
Ohio Girls Golf Foundation
offers spring clinics
With such a mild winter
this year, golfers are getting
an early start on their golf
game. And to help girls hone
their golf skills, the Ohio
Girls Golf Foundation
(OGGF) is conducting
spring clinics throughout the
state the last four Saturdays
in April
For beginning to advanced
golfers, these clinics will ex-
amine all aspects of the
game—from full swing to
short game and putting. Girls
ages 8 to 18 can participate
in these comprehensive clin-
ics taught by LPGA and
PGA instructors on April 9,
16, 23 and 30.
The OGGF is holding the
morning clinics at locations
throughout the state, includ-
ing Belmont Country Club
in Perrysburg.
“As a nonprofit founda-
tion, we offer golf clinics to
make it affordable for all
girls to participate and thus
help improve their golf
game,” says OGGF Execu-
tive Director Judd Stephen-
son. “This is a team effort
with the golf ranges hosting
these clinics and PGA pro-
fessionals donating their
time to help grow girls golf.”
For clinic registration,
register online at
www.oggf.org, pick up a
form at Bemont Country
Club or contact OGGF Ex-
ecutive Director Judd
Stephenson, 440-871-4638
or judd@oggf.org. The
signup deadline is April 1.
Cost is $15 per clinic or $50
for all four Saturdays.
As part of OGGF’s Ongo-
ing Instruction Program,
girls who participate in the
spring group lessons will
have an opportunity to con-
tinue working on their skills
through individual or smaller
group private lessons of one,
two or three girls, partially
funded by the foundation.
Prizm Creative Commu-
nity is issuing a Call for local
Artists and Authors to partici-
pate in its tenth annual Art-A-
Fair Exhibition, a showcase of
local talent. More than
$1,500 in cash and ribbon
awards will reward local
artists and authors. The dead-
line to apply is Saturday,
March 19. Electronic or hard
copy applications must be re-
ceived by this date.
The full prospectus is
available on the homepage of
the Prizm website at
www.MyPrizm.com or by
emailing prizm@bex.net or
calling 419-931-8732.
Area artists and authors,
including high school youth,
are invited to apply.
Each year Prizm issues a
Creative Challenge to inspire
the creation of new works of
art and creative writing. This
year’s Creative Challenge
theme is “Jubilee Journey” to
both commemorate the 10th
year anniversary of Prizm as
well as to highlight the life
journey of all people, no mat-
ter where their individual path
may lead.
Participants in the Creative
Challenge category will be el-
igible for additional prizes.
Cash prizes and ribbons
will be presented in four cat-
egories of Art, Literature,
Creative Challenge andYouth
Exhibit.
New to this year’s exhibit
will be a Youth division dis-
play in which up and coming
talent from students in grades
9-12 will be included in the
collection which includes
adult professionals as well as
novice and new upcoming
artists.
The exhibition will open
Saturday, April 9, with a re-
ception from 3 to 6 p.m. at
the Fifth Third Center at One
Seagate, 550 North Summit
Street, Toledo. It will feature
food, live entertainment and
award.
The exhibit will be on dis-
play for nine weeks, and con-
tinue in the lobby of the Fifth
Third Center through Satur-
day, June 19, and will close
with a reception/party. View-
ing hours are Monday
through Friday, from 8 a.m.
to 9 p.m.; Saturday and Sun-
day, from noon to 6 p.m.
The display will be a fea-
tured stop on the Arts Com-
mission’s monthly Artwalk-
BusLoop during the months
of April, May and June.
Prizm issues yearly creative
challenge, opens call for artists
Custom Kings contest held
at Harley-Davidson dealerships
The “Custom Kings” con-
test is being held by Harley-
Davidson, with dealerships
submitting their best designs
from throughout the country.
Toledo Harley-Davidson has
made it to the top 64 in the
competition.
The crew had less than
two months to design a black
and copper bike under an
$18,000 budget.
This bike was designed to
signify the freedom to ride
wherever and whenever an
individual wants.
An American flag is wav-
ing in the background
throughout the whole bike,
and a Bald Eagle is ghosted
in on the gas tank.
On each side cover some-
thing very special was added,
the right side features the
New York skyline with the
line “Land of The Free” and
the left side portrays Wash-
ington with the phrase “We
the People.” This motorcycle
isn’t available at every deal-
ership. The four members of
Toledo Harley-Davidson cre-
ated this custom-built motor-
cycle as part of a nationwide
competition among Harley
dealerships.
“We’d actually like every-
one to go to Harley-David-
son's website and vote for our
custom bike." said Christy
Myrice from Toledo Harley-
Davidson. “It’s called ‘Free-
dom XVLIII.’”
The winning bike will be
displayed in the Harley-
Davidson museum in Mil-
waukee for a year.
To vote for Toledo Harley-
Davidson to make it to the
next round visit custom
kings.harleydavidson.com/
en_CY/
Notre Dame Academy
offers summer camp for girls
Notre Dame academy is
offering discovery and aca-
demic camps for girls of all
ages.
Camp registration is open
and an early bird discount is
available to those signing up
by March 15.
NDA offers a range of
credit and non-credit aca-
demic camps for girls enter-
ing grades kindergarten
through 12.
Girls can explore careers
while visiting local profes-
sional venues, investigate
the world of robotics or
prep for the college ACT
test.
Discovery Camps include
interests from culinary to the-
atre, and new this year are
camps on etiquette, self-de-
fense and a CSI camp.
The seventh and eighth
grade math/writing Tune Up
camp will help prevent the
two-month slide in mathe-
matical computation skills
students experience during
the summer.
Girls also can tune up
their academic skills in
preparation for high school
through the non-credit Study
Skills Bootcamp.
A variety of sports camps
also will be offered and in-
clude volleyball, lacrosse,
soccer, basketball, archery,
fencing and rowing.
To register or view a full
listing of summer camps,
visit nda.org.
The 577 Foundation will
offer two fiber577 workshops
with Cindy Steiler, a mixed-
media textile artist and alter-
native-process photographer
from Gainesville, Florida.
In an artist talk on Friday,
June 10, from 6 to 8 p.m., Ms.
Steiler will discuss creativity,
inspiration, and the impor-
tance of a sketchbook. She
also will cover venturing into
mainstream art venues with
fiber, textile arts, travel op-
portunities and residencies
for artists.
The fee for the program is
$5, with a payment deadline
of May 16.
Ms. Steiler also will pres-
ent a two-day cyanotypes
workshop June 11 and 12,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day.
The program will explore
printing botanicals and pho-
tographic images on fabric
using the cyanotype process
for many applications in tex-
tile art.
The cyanotype process
creates stunning imagery that
works wonderfully for ge-
nealogy and memorial proj-
ects, art quilts, wearables, and
mixed media projects. A brief
history will be presented
about cyanotype and Anna
Atkins, the first female pho-
tographer who employed it.
The program also will
cover chemistry, fabric prepa-
ration, contact printing botan-
icals, objects, lace, preparing
digital negatives from both
old photos and digital files,
printing photographs, cyan-
otype toning (turning the blue
and white image to black and
white or sepia), and care of
cyanotype when used for
wearables.
The fee is $200, which
must be paid by May 16.
Ms. Steiler recently ven-
tured to Wales & Portugal to
teach and exhibit her work.
Her work also was selected
for a solo show within the
2015 fiber577 show at The
577 Foundation.
She studied set and cos-
tume design at Colorado State
University. Her work is repre-
sented by galleries both in the
United States and Europe and
is currently on view at Angel-
wood Gallery in Grand
Rapids, Ohio, as well as
being featured in numerous
publications.
For more information
about these programs, call
419-874-4174 or visit the
website at www.577
foundation.org.
577 Foundation to offer
fiber workshops in June
Girls at NDA explore during Career Week
Notre Dame Academy students are pictured with Jules Webster of the Art Supply Depot.
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