Senior Joseph Kosiboski and Onekama Schools Shop Teacher Paul Foster with Joe’s Shaker Style Wall Cabinet that won 1^st Place in Regional MITES competition and 6^th Place in MITES State Wide competition last weekend. Joe was also recognized at the Onekama Schools’ Awards Assembly as the Onekama Industrial Technology Student of the Year and was awarded a certificate recognizing his “Outstanding Work in Shop for School Year 2009 -2010, Building a Tradition of Excellence.”

Joe Kosiboski Takes 1st at Regional Competition

Taking 1st Place in the High School Wood Small Wall Hung Cabinets category at the Michigan Industrial Technology Education Society’s (MITES) Regional Competition held at Fremont High School, was senior Joseph Kosiboski’s project. His 1^st year Shop Student project was then placed in competition with projects in the same category and class level from all over the State of Michigan. Showing and judging took place at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, May 6^th through 8^th. With 19 Regions in the state and only the top 4 projects in each category from each region entered in the State Wide Competition, Joe’s project was awarded 6^th place out of 25 other “best of the best” projects in the same category.

The Onekama Consolidated Schools Shop Teacher, Paul Foster, expects to see more projects of competitive quality produced by the High School and Middle School students in the coming years as the program grows and changes to address the variety of interests brought by students enrolling in Industrial Technology classes.

<--Four proud Onekama Middle School Shop students show off their Old Fashioned Tote Box projects that captured 1^st through 4^th Places at the MITES Regional Competition and 9^th Place for Kayla Kosiboski with Honorable Mentions for the others at the MITES State Wide Competition last weekend. Front L-R: Sierra Warner (8^th grade), Louise Barnard (7^th grade), Haley Maser (8^th grade) and Back: Kayla Kosiboski (7^th grade).