Region 3 Information
Hi Region 3 Advisers,
Wow this week has definitely thrown a few new CVOID challenges our way. Here are to name a few: BYU announcing their vaccination or negative test procedures, over ten schools entering some variation of online school for various days, increased substitute shortages, and difficulty finding judges. Because of these challenges we knew this year might need to look different than what we have done in the past. This past week we have met multiple times as a Utah FCCLA board and talked to district CTE coordinators and Administrators trying to come up with not only a plan B but also a plan C, D, and by now maybe all the way to G.
With every school/ district in a different place, and no telling where we will be in just a few short weeks we have decided that the best way to hold an in person conference this year would be to let districts and if needs be schools host their own.
What this will look like:
This conference will be a hybrid between virtual conferences and in-person with the location being way closer to home. Culinary Arts and Baking and Pastry STAR events will still take place in person at Jordan High School (date is now pending again due to new COVID restrictions). However, all other STAR events will be evaluated in person on either a District or if needs be a School level during a number of days. With this, the cost of the conference has changed, it is now $10/student participant ($15/student participant late) and $10 for advisers ($15/adviser late). We still have some costs that are associated with the conference that need to be covered, the other $10/student was for lunch at BYU.
Here is a general Calendar with new dates and procedures.
January 21st
Email commitment for any chapters who will have students competing in Culinary Arts or Baking and Pastry. Please RSVP to shauna.young@canyonsdistrict.org
January 28th at midnight
Registration Due for all STAR events
February 4th at midnight
Late Registration Due for all STAR events
DATE PENDING
Culinary and Baking STAR events at Jordan High School
February 10th - 11th
District/ School supply boxes delivered
February 11th
Opening Session pre recorded sent out to chapters
February 11th - 16th
Districts and Schools run Regions at their convenience with in person presentations using your own evaluators.
February 16th
All four scores for each team must be emailed to Region Adviser by midnight. Culinary Arts and Baking and Pastry results will be announced via email
State Conference
Ribbons will be passed out at our Region meeting.
We know that this is not ideal and that your students may be disappointed to not be together at BYU. We have considered this, however, based on our current day by day COVID situation, our quickly approaching conference, and rising numbers we feel this plan allows chapters more autonomy in how and when your students present their STAR events. The CTE coordinators I talked to also felt this would assist with the substitute, evaluators, and bus shortages we have been experiencing, as well as more freedom to follow their own COVID procedures and school expectations. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email or call me. I would reach out to the other advisers throughout your region about hosting a district competition or if you need to host your own at your individual school that can be arranged as well.
We still STRONGLY encourage your students to participate in a STAR Event, we are still planning an in-person State Conference and they will need to present their projects at Region to qualify for State. We as a board feel this is the best option for our students to get practice for state and presenting live.
A couple of chapters have already submitted registration and sent checks, I will be working with Karen Atkin, our Financial Accountant, about getting reimbursement checks sent back to your chapters.
If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask! This is all just happening so quickly and I will try and keep you up to date as quickly as possible.
Wow this week has definitely thrown a few new CVOID challenges our way. Here are to name a few: BYU announcing their vaccination or negative test procedures, over ten schools entering some variation of online school for various days, increased substitute shortages, and difficulty finding judges. Because of these challenges we knew this year might need to look different than what we have done in the past. This past week we have met multiple times as a Utah FCCLA board and talked to district CTE coordinators and Administrators trying to come up with not only a plan B but also a plan C, D, and by now maybe all the way to G.
With every school/ district in a different place, and no telling where we will be in just a few short weeks we have decided that the best way to hold an in person conference this year would be to let districts and if needs be schools host their own.
What this will look like:
This conference will be a hybrid between virtual conferences and in-person with the location being way closer to home. Culinary Arts and Baking and Pastry STAR events will still take place in person at Jordan High School (date is now pending again due to new COVID restrictions). However, all other STAR events will be evaluated in person on either a District or if needs be a School level during a number of days. With this, the cost of the conference has changed, it is now $10/student participant ($15/student participant late) and $10 for advisers ($15/adviser late). We still have some costs that are associated with the conference that need to be covered, the other $10/student was for lunch at BYU.
Here is a general Calendar with new dates and procedures.
January 21st
Email commitment for any chapters who will have students competing in Culinary Arts or Baking and Pastry. Please RSVP to shauna.young@canyonsdistrict.org
January 28th at midnight
Registration Due for all STAR events
February 4th at midnight
Late Registration Due for all STAR events
DATE PENDING
Culinary and Baking STAR events at Jordan High School
February 10th - 11th
District/ School supply boxes delivered
February 11th
Opening Session pre recorded sent out to chapters
February 11th - 16th
Districts and Schools run Regions at their convenience with in person presentations using your own evaluators.
February 16th
All four scores for each team must be emailed to Region Adviser by midnight. Culinary Arts and Baking and Pastry results will be announced via email
State Conference
Ribbons will be passed out at our Region meeting.
We know that this is not ideal and that your students may be disappointed to not be together at BYU. We have considered this, however, based on our current day by day COVID situation, our quickly approaching conference, and rising numbers we feel this plan allows chapters more autonomy in how and when your students present their STAR events. The CTE coordinators I talked to also felt this would assist with the substitute, evaluators, and bus shortages we have been experiencing, as well as more freedom to follow their own COVID procedures and school expectations. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email or call me. I would reach out to the other advisers throughout your region about hosting a district competition or if you need to host your own at your individual school that can be arranged as well.
We still STRONGLY encourage your students to participate in a STAR Event, we are still planning an in-person State Conference and they will need to present their projects at Region to qualify for State. We as a board feel this is the best option for our students to get practice for state and presenting live.
A couple of chapters have already submitted registration and sent checks, I will be working with Karen Atkin, our Financial Accountant, about getting reimbursement checks sent back to your chapters.
If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask! This is all just happening so quickly and I will try and keep you up to date as quickly as possible.
Baking & Pastry and Culinary Arts Documents
STAR Event Online Orientation
Click below to access the STAR Event Online Orientation Presentation. You must go through the entire presentation to access the form to receive your certificate.