Child care students earn medals

Students in the Early Childhood Development program at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center competed in the 2011 Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America Early Childhood Development competition, earning five gold medals in individual events and one bronze medal in the team competition. Two students -- Alisa Barcley of Campbell and Dasjah Grace of Austintown -- will be advancing to the state competition.

The students competed in four categories: language and literacy, concept curriculum, teacher resource kit and early childhood team. With each of these categories the students had to research, develop and present lesson plans, activities and kits that met the state’s content standards for early childhood education.

Barcley earned a gold medal in the language and literacy event with her props and telling of the story, “There Was an Old Monster.” Grace received a gold medal in the teacher resource kit competition. For her event she developed materials to teach measurement of time, weight, length and volume to preschool children.

The following students also competed at the event and earned high marks:

Jesse Bigelow of Jackson Milton earned a gold medal in concept curriculum development; Janet Bernard of Austintown won a gold medal in teacher resource kit; Shomore DeNiro of Canfield earned a gold medal in concept curriculum development; Cinda-Jean Cox of Austintown, KaLeisha Jones of Boardman and Alisha Starkey of Boardman, won a bronze medal in early childhood team.