Porter County Career Center Announces 2015 Awards for Excellence Nominees

Four outstanding Career and Technical Education students and two programs have been nominated for top state awards.

Indiana’s Awards for Excellence will be announced in February. Nominees from Porter County Career and Technical Education are

Dylann Chitwood of Chesterton High School. This senior has studied Health Science Education 1/Anatomy and Physiology and Dental Careers.

She plans to study chemistry and ultimate get a doctorate of dental surgery.

She has been active in lacrosse and a dance troupe. She describes herself as a multi-tasker and problem solver.

Amanda Sandilla of Hobart High School. Amanda has studied Early Childhood Education at Hobart High for two years.

She plans to study elementary education at Calumet College of St. Joseph on a softball and academic scholarship. She would love to teach kindergarten through third grade.

Danielle “Dani” Suiter of Valparaiso High School. This outstanding volleyball player has studied Health Careers and Health Occupations, also known as Health Science Education I and II.

She plans to study nursing at Duquense University in Pittsburgh, where she will also play volleyball.

Brooke Regaldo of Washington Township High School.

This senior has studied Entrepreneurship/Sports & Entertainment Marketing and Strategic Marketing/Principles of Marketing at the Career Center. She works three jobs at Blythe’s, Life Care Center of Valparaiso, and ValpoLife.com.

Also nominated as outstanding CTE program of the year was Video Production and Media Studies.

The program was honored as the outstanding television program of the year in 2015 by the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters.

A final nominee was the Career Center’s Alternative Energy Demonstration Project Initiative.