Fairmont grad to represent USA

Spencer Wolf, a member of the Fairmont High School class of 2013, won the SkillsUSA national championship in Digital Advertising in 2013 while he was a student in the Fairmont Career Tech Center.

Every two years, a WorldSkills event is held and students with the highest national scores from the 50 member nations are asked to compete in the world competition. Fairmont CTC coordinator Liz Jensen said Wolf will be one of just 19 students representing the United States in Brazil this August. started with the upgrading of Kettering’s entire network. The phase-in of a 1:1 program began this year with the roll-out of 3,000 Chromebooks to students in grades 3-12.

The 1:1 program will be in full operation for the 2015-16 school year with the purchase of additional Chromebooks for second-graders, as well as the addition of Android tablets for students in kindergarten and first grade.

The 1:1 program will touch every student in the district, including students with disabilities and students with English as a Second Language (ESL). An integral part of the district’s grant application included concrete ways in which the achievement of these two subgroups would improve as a result of the introduction of the new hardware and software into the curriculum.

Kettering partnered with the Montgomery County Educational Services Center in the “Straight A” grant, and students enrolled in programs at the ESC are also benefiting from the addition of new technology.