Bonds Programs
APPLICATION TO ATTEND BONDS
Bonds Career Center 2012-2013 Application
If you are interested in taking courses at Bonds Career Center during the 2012-2013 school year please complete the application. The application is for NEW and RETURNING students. Click HERE to read a brief description of the courses for 2012-13.
MR. RHODES WINS NATIONAL HONOR
Wayne Rhodes, the director of Bonds Career Center, was selected by the Board of Directors of SkillsUSA, Inc to receive one of SkillsUSA's highest honors - The SkillsUSA Outstanding Career and Technical Educator Award. He will be recognized at the National SkillsUSA Leadership Conference in Kansas City, Missouri this June. He was selected for this award because of his many years of dedicated service to SkillsUSA and the students served within that organization. We are so proud of him!
SC SkillsUSA RESULTS
We are so proud of all of the Bonds students who participated in the 2012 SC SkillsUSA Conference. The following students placed in the top 3 of their contest: Charles Marcus, 3rd, Residential/Construction Wiring; Timothy Fortner, 3rd, Technical Drafting; Scout Sudduth, 3rd, Welding; Tim Bright, Chase Hyatt, Blake Miller, 3rd, Team Welding Fabrication; Star Owenby, 3rd, Welding Sculpture Design; Trey Brown, 2nd, Automotive Service Technology; Tyler Handler, 2nd, Culinary Arts; Lauren Kinney, 2nd, Food and Beverage Services; Samantha Specht, 2nd, Medical Terminology; Jonathon Flynn, Darius Newman, Colton Seaver, 2nd, Team Welding Fabrication; Rachel Holloway, 1st, Medical Math; Brooke Lambert, 1st, Medical Terminology; Jonah Turner, 1st, Plumbing; Jonathan McGahee, 1st, Related Technical math. Anthony Aparico was elected SC SkillsUSA Parlamentarian. Sarah Garner was elected SC SkillsUSA President. The state officers and 1st place winners will travel to Kansas City, Missouri this summer for the National SkillsUSA Conference.
OLD GREER HIGH MEMORABILIA
The old Greer High School gymnasium has been renovated to a state-of-the-art welding training facility. Portions of the gym floor were salvaged and are being sold to help fund a September 11, 2011 Memorial Garden. For more information click HERE.
FORENSIC MEDICINE TEAM GOING TO NATIONAL HOSA
Brooke Lambert and Jenny Rodriguez, both from Blue Ridge High School, won 1st place in the Forensic Medicine competition at the SC HOSA Leadership conference that was held in Charleston on March 7 - 9. They will represent Bonds and SC HOSA in the same event at the National HOSA conference on June 20 - 23 in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations!!
TREY BROWN WINS 1ST PLACE
Trey Brown, a senior at Greer High in the Bonds Automotive Technology Program, finished 1st place in the 3rd Annual AYES/NATEF All Star Automotive Technology Competition, sponsored by the South Carolina Automobile Dealers Association and held at Midlands Technical College in Columbia on February 23, 2012. Trey received a $10,000 scholarship to NASCAR Technical Institute, a Snap-On tool set and box worth over $4,500 for himself, and a 2010 Ford Focus Car for the Automotive Program at Bonds valued at over $16,000. Click HERE to see a photo of Trey, Mr. Romano, and all of the contestants.
CULINARY TEAM PLACES AT PROSTART COMPETITION
JT Barnes, James Moore, Latijah Hicks, Chelsea Burton, and Justice Pittman won 3rd place in "Management Team" at the ProStart competition that was held March 11-13 in Charleston. We are proud of them!!
