BRADENTON — At an awards ceremony May 2, Manatee Technical Institute presented 99 medals to the MTI students who won first, second or third at the 2014 Florida SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference, April 28 and 29 in Pensacola. Manatee Tech students won 54 gold medals — more medals than any other school in…
BY RICHARD DYMOND MANATEE — For 20 Manatee Technical Institute culinary students who are studying to be chefs and nine advanced horticulture students from Braden River High School, Tuesday featured a true farm-to-fork experience. MTI students were given their own garden space in February at Braden River High School and BRHS students helped them plant…
(Bradenton, FL—May 13, 2014) Manatee Technical Institute will induct 19 students into the National Adult Education Honor Society on May 15, 2014. The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. at Bayshore High School Auditorium. It will be an hour filled with heart-warming stories of perseverance and achievement. Family members, friends and instructors will pin each…
Ten Manatee Technical Institute student volunteers from the Network Support Services class spent a day last week cleaning up Dream Oaks Special Needs Camp. The students, who are all members of SkillsUSA, were taking part in Manatee County United Way’s “Hands On Manatee” volunteer initiative. Class instructor Joel Hall said, “I was looking for a…
At an awards ceremony on May 2, Manatee Technical Institute presented 99 medals to the MTI students who won first, second or third at the 2014 Florida SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference, April 28 and 29 in Pensacola. Manatee Tech students won 54 gold medals—more medals than any other school in the state—at the…
The MTI Patient Care Technician Even class has submitted a Youth Safety Video thru Careersafe and we have made the top 12 finalists! Now comes the tough part… we need our community to vote! And, vote everyday from now until May 15! Please go to the Careersafe Facebook Page and cast your vote: https://www.facebook.com/CareerSafe. Our…
(Bradenton, FL—April 28, 2014) Cooking with MTI is the name of a new cookbook that students from Manatee Technical Institute’s SkillsUSA Chapter are selling to raise money to help them go to national championships. Over 150 students participated in putting together the collection of approximately 300 recipes. Digital design student Joslyn Morales took the…
BY MARTY CLEAR mclear@bradenton.com April 26, 2014 BRADENTON — Back in January, Jamie Gregorich, a veteran of Longboat Key’s prestigious Euphemia Haye Restaurant and the popular “Hell’s Kitchen” TV competition show, became the lead instructor of the Culinary Arts Department at Manatee Technical Institute. On Thursday, she’ll talk about her rise in the culinary world…
(Bradenton, FL—April 25, 2014) The new lead instructor of the Culinary Arts Department at Manatee Technical Institute, Jamie Gregorich, will talk about her fast rise in the culinary world from MTI to Euphemia Haye to Hell’s Kitchen and back in a talk at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 1 at MTI in Wagner Auditorium. The…
(Bradenton, FL—April 23, 2014) Manatee Technical Institute inducted 175 students into the National Technical Honor Society on April 22. Fewer than two percent of America’s secondary and postsecondary students are nominated for membership. Guidance counselor Vickie Miller led the ceremony. In her opening remarks, she recounted how MTI director Mary Cantrell, PhD, had charged her…
(Bradenton, FL—April 10, 2014) Bottles are not the typical material Manatee Technical Institute students encounter in their marine service technology class, but that is what three students from the class have used to build a craft for competition in this Saturday’s Bottle Boat Regatta. The race of “boats” made from discarded plastic bottles is a…
(Bradenton, FL—April 8, 2014) The Manatee Technical Institute Postsecondary Chapter of HOSA (formerly known as Health Occupations Students of America) dominated the Postsecondary-Collegiate Division competitive events at the HOSA State Leadership Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, April 3-6. Competing against 13 universities, colleges and tech centers, MTI students won 29 medals: 17 first-place, 5…
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