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South Plains College/TBTEA Region 17
Business/Marketing Professional Learning Community Event
October 24, 2011 at South Plains College in Levelland.

This professional development and networking opportunity was designed to bring together business/marketing teachers and postsecondary and business partners from across region 17 to address the career clusters.

The morning started off with a welcome by Dr. Kelvin Sharp, SPC President. Throughout the day there were four panel discussions in the following areas: Business Management & Administration Industry, Finance Industry, Information Technology Industry and Marketing Industry. During the luncheon time TBTEA presented the following awards: Rookie Teacher of the Year Les Tomlin, Secondary Teacher of the Year Jane O'Pry, and Technologist of the Year Scott Firenza. All three winners are from Monterey High School in Lubbock. We also had the opportunity to meet with South Plains College professor from the Business Department to discuss and update current articulation agreements.

The following business people made up the four different panels:

Business Management & Administration:
Scotty Arnold from US Small Business Administration
James Wilhelm from TTU SBDC

Finance:

Matthew Carr from Ameriprise Financial
Norma Garza from Wells Fargo Bank
Diane Hubbard from Caraway, McMahon and Company
Helen Pope from Howard, Cunningham, Houchin & Turner, LLP

Information Technology:

Krista Melcher from Price Group, Inc.
Stephen Miller from Responsive Services Internat'l,, Inc
Dr. Francisco Ortega from TTU-College of Art
Troy Pratt from Covenant Health Systems

Marketing:

Nick Dragga from Ballet Lubbock, Inc.
Stephanie Massengale from Advanced Graphics
Beverly McBeath from KCBD TV
Juneta Mitchell from Aim Bank
Abel Perez from Aim Bank
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