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✨ Happy Custodian Appreciation Day! ✨
Today we give a huge THANK YOU to our custodial team for all they do to keep our school clean, safe, and welcoming every single day. 🧹🧼🪣

Your hard work often happens behind the scenes, but it makes a BIG difference for students and staff. We appreciate you! 💙

#CustodianAppreciationDay #ThankYou #SchoolCommunity

🏡 Check out the floor plans for the CTE House! 📐✨ Big things are happening, and we can’t wait to share more. Stay tuned for updates on color combos, features, and all the exciting details! #CTEHouse #FutureHomebuilders #DesignInProgress

🚑 Our Health Careers class has been hard at work learning the essentials of patient care! 🧑‍⚕️ Students practiced wheelchair safety and techniques for safely moving residents and patients in bed—skills that build both confidence and compassion. 💙 #HealthCareers #FutureHealthcareHeroes #HandsOnLearning

🚀 Taking flight in Aviation class! Just a little rocket launching fun last week. Who’s ready for liftoff? ✈️💥

Check out the YouTube video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8eD6Lqgot0

#AviationClass #RocketScience #STEMFun #FuturePilots #HandsOnLearning

💼 Academy of Finance students hit the road this week! 🚗💨 Our class visited First Premier Bank to see finance in action and learn firsthand how banking works. From exploring career opportunities to understanding real-world money management, it was a valuable experience for our future financial leaders! 💰📊

#FinanceFieldTrip #FutureBankers #AcademyOfFinance #RealWorldLearning #MoneyMatters #StudentSuccess

🤖⛳ Robotics has been putting their skills to the test—literally! Students are using their robots to tackle a mini golf course and aim for a hole in one. Fore! 😎🏌️‍♂️

#CTE #Robotics #HandsOnLearning #STEM #MiniGolfChallenge

🏠🔨 Things are moving fast in Carpentry! Before long, we’ll have the floor finished on the CTE house and the roof on the Habitat for Humanity house. Exciting milestones ahead as our students build skills and homes at the same time! 💪✨

#CTE #Carpentry #HabitatForHumanity #BuildingFutures #HandsOnLearning

🔧🚗 The Auto Body shop has been full of energy lately! Students are learning the difference between R&I (remove & reinstall) and R&R (remove & replace) — putting real car parts back together and taking them apart, hands-on style. Nothing beats learning by doing! 😎

#CTE #AutoBody #SkillsForLife #HandsOnLearning

💼✨ This summer, our Finance students gained incredible real-world experience through internships!
Liam Travers (LHS) – Levo
Alissa Alut (JHS) – Five Star Call Center
Jorge Huete (WHS) – First National Bank in Sioux Falls
A huge thank-you to the supervisors and sponsors for your leadership and commitment to shaping our future business leaders. Your support makes all the difference! 🙌👏

#CTE #Finance #InternshipExperience #FutureBusinessLeaders #HandsOnLearning

🔨🏡 Big progress in Carpentry! Our students have walls going up on the Habitat for Humanity house and are starting the flooring on the CTE house. Teamwork, skill, and dedication are turning blueprints into real homes! 💪✨

#CTE #Carpentry #HabitatForHumanity

💚 Another Friday at CTE Academy spreading mental health awareness! Students wrote reminders to classmates that they matter, are loved, and are never alone. 🧠✨ #YouMatter #MentalHealthAwareness

🔥👏 Shoutout to our very own Welding teacher, Mr. Benshoof, who received a $250 Replenish the Room Grant! He put the funds to great use, purchasing aluminum rulers, machinist squares, and weld gauges.

These tools are now helping our Welding students every week as they measure and perfect their projects with accuracy. 🛠️✨

#CTEAcademy #Welding #HandsOnLearning #CTEStrong #FutureBuilders

🎬✨ Behind the scenes!
Our Media Arts students are hard at work on their Walking Project shoot—planning, filming, and capturing creative shots that bring their ideas to life. Love seeing their creativity in action!

#CTEAcademy #MediaArts #StudentCreativity #BehindTheScenes #FutureFilmmakers

🚛🏡 The Carpentry House from the 2024–25 school year is officially on the road today! Built with skill, teamwork, and dedication by our CTE Carpentry students, it’s now off to start its next chapter with new homeowners.

Here’s to new adventures and the memories this home will hold!

#CTEAcademy #Carpentry #StudentBuilt #FutureBuilders #OnTheMove

🐾✨ Big news from CTE Academy! ✨🐾

Our Mama Kitty Roxie has officially become a mom—she welcomed 7 adorable, healthy kittens into the world! 😻💕

We’re so excited to watch them grow and can’t wait to share more cuteness with you soon. 🐾💖

#CTEAcademy #MamaRoxie #KittensOfInstagram #PurrfectNews #CTEPets

💚 Mental Health Matters 💚

At CTE Academy, we want to remind our students and staff that taking care of your mind is just as important as taking care of your body.

Here are a few common mental health challenges to be aware of:
🌀 Anxiety – constant worry, racing thoughts, or physical tension
😔 Depression – persistent sadness, loss of interest, or low energy
💭 Stress – feeling overwhelmed by school, work, or personal pressures
🌙 Sleep issues – trouble falling or staying asleep, or oversleeping
🤝 Social struggles – isolation, loneliness, or difficulty connecting with others

👉 Remember: It’s okay to not be okay. Asking for help is a sign of strength. Talk to a trusted friend, family member, teacher, or counselor if you’re struggling.

📸 Pictured are CTE staff wearing their Mental Health T-shirts every Friday to help spread the word to students that mental health matters—and that it’s okay to ask for help.

Let’s work together to break the stigma and support each other. 💚

#MentalHealthAwareness #YouMatter #EndTheStigma #CTEAcademy #ItsOkayToAskForHelp

💚 September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. At CTE Academy, we want our students to know that your mental health matters—and you are never alone.

Here are a few important reminders for teens:
✔️ Talk about how you’re feeling—don’t keep it inside.
✔️ Stay connected with friends, family, or a trusted adult.
✔️ Take breaks from stress—music, sports, journaling, or just quiet time.
✔️ Watch out for your friends—check in if someone seems down.
✔️ Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness.

To help spread awareness, CTE staff will be wearing our mental health shirts every Friday this month. 💚 Let’s keep the conversation going and support one another.

If you or someone you know is struggling, dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You are not alone.

#SuicidePrevention #YouMatter #MentalHealthAwareness #CTEAcademy #BeTheDifference

Today, we pause to remember and honor the lives lost, the heroes who responded, and the families forever changed on September 11, 2001.

At CTE Academy, we join the nation in saying: We will never forget.

#NeverForget #September11 #HonorAndRemember #CTEAcademy

🩺 Our Health Careers students are leveling up! This week we started practicing vital signs on each other—palpating radial and carotid pulses, and auscultating apical pulses and lung sounds. 👂❤️💨

Hands-on experience like this helps students build confidence and skills they’ll use throughout their future healthcare careers. Proud of these future healthcare heroes! 🙌

#HealthCareers #FutureHealthcareHeroes #VitalSigns #HandsOnLearning #CTE

👩‍⚕️💊 Our Health Careers class had the amazing opportunity to learn about Pharmacogenomics from guest speakers Allison and Stacy from Sanford Health!

Students acted as enzymes in the body metabolizing “medications” (aka pretzels)—and since enzymes don’t have eyes, they had to do it blind! 👀🚫🥨

What a fun and hands-on way to connect science to real life. Thank you, Sanford Health, for bringing such an engaging and memorable lesson to our students! 🙌✨

#Pharmacogenomics #HealthCareers #SanfordHealth #HandsOnLearning #FutureHealthcareHeroes