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Southwest Shadow Wins Gold
Recently Southwest Career and Technical Academy participated in a critique from Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The competition was open to any school with a digital publication and several other schools did well. However, the Southwest Shadow, our student-generated digital newspaper, was awarded as a Gold Medalist receiving 918 points out of a possible 1000. Judges [...]
FCCLA Competes at State
This year the FCCLA Design Academy students participated in the Nevada State Competition. Listed below are some of the events students participated in. All of these events are called STAR Events. STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition) are competitive events in which members are recognized for proficiency and achievement in chapter and individual projects, [...]
Let’s Go to Knott’s Berry Farm!
On Saturday April 21st, we will be embarking on a fun and exciting school-wide trip to Knott’s Berry Farm! It will be a fantastic way for students to bond and have a memorable time with their classmates. The cost of the trip is a very reasonable $75 which includes a meal at the park and [...]
Fashion Wins Big Again!
On Saturday March 10th, Juniors from the Fashion Design program competed in the Junior League of Las Vegas’ Fashion Forward: Prom Party Fashion Challenge. 64 of Las Vegas’ best and brightest fashion students competed in this annual event at Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas Strip. The contest limits students to a $50 budget [...]
Bridge Builders Fall Short
On Saturday March 10th, 6 Sophomores competed in the UNLV Bridge Building Contest. Here is an excerpt from Mr. McElroy, our Engineering and Automotive Technologies Teacher. “John Duriman, Mehaki Asare, Bryan Cardenas, Marquis Johnson, Redd Samiento, and Sofia Valles from my sophomore POE class competed in the UNLV Bridge contest last Saturday. All of the [...]
FIDM Challenge
Participants in The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) Challenge were tasked to help to further the awareness and understanding of sustainability in textile related products by creating a runway worthy garment using previously used fabrics or garments. Participants created a runway-worthy garment from previously used fabrics and/or garments and then created a marketing [...]
SkillsUSA Competition
On Saturday March 3, 5 SWCTA Automotive Technology students competed in the SkillsUSA regional automotive competition. Each school in the region can have up to 5 students compete in this competition. To determine the top 20 canidates they score the written test and keep the top scores to go on to hands on testing. Students [...]
Coyote U-Night Committee Meeting 2/28
In case you missed the meeting on 2/28 after school in the library, here are the notes from our meeting. As you can see we have split up activities and job duties into committees to help organize each one. If you are interested in getting involved or would like more information on a particular committee, [...]
DECA State Conference
On February 16th and 17th, the SWCTA DECA chapter took on all comers at the Nevada State DECA Conference. SWCTA had 190 members attend and compete in a variety of events. Of the 190 competing students, an astounding 65% of students received awards. Not to mention awards such as Largest Nevada DECA Chapter and DECA [...]
Archery Places 3rd At State
On February 9th, the Archery Team once again competed in the State Tournament with success. A strong showing gave the Coyotes 2944 points, a mere 148 behind the leader Fallon Young Bowen who scored 3092. Despite not finishing first, the Coyotes scored enough points to qualify for the National Tournament being held in Kentucky. Two [...]