🍽️❤️💙 OUR FIRST CULINARY CORNER CAFE MEAL! 💙❤️🍽️ Today was a BIG day for our Culinary Arts students! We served our very first meal to our teachers through the Culinary Corner Cafe, and we could not be more proud of our students! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 From prepping ingredients to preparing, packaging, and serving the meals, our students worked hard and did an AMAZING job! They put the skills they’ve been learning in the kitchen into action, worked through the process, and took pride in what they were serving. This is exactly what hands-on learning is all about! ❤️ Watching our students take something we have planned and practiced in class and turn it into a real café experience for our teachers was such a proud teacher moment. A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our teachers and staff who supported our first sale and enjoyed a meal from Culinary Corner Cafe! We are just getting started, and we are so excited to see where our students take this! 👩‍🍳🔥 Way to go, Culinary Arts students! We are SO proud of you! ❤️💙 #CulinaryCornerCafe #TCCTC #CulinaryArts #ProudTeacher #StudentSuccess #HandsOnLearning #FutureChefs #SchoolCafe #SupportOurStudents

❤️💙 THANK YOU, COMMUNITY PARTNERS! 💙❤️ We want to give a HUGE thank-you to Sparks Drive Inn for generously donating to-go plates to our Culinary Corner Cafe! Your donation will help our students serve our teachers and keep our café running smoothly. 🍽️ We also want to send a BIG thank-you to Lil' Smokies for their generous $200 donation to Culinary Corner Cafe! Your support means so much to our Culinary Arts program and our students. 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 These donations are more than just supplies and financial support—they are an investment in our students and the hands-on learning opportunities we are able to provide them. We are so grateful to have local businesses willing to support our program and our schools! ❤️💙 Thank you, Sparks Drive Inn and Lil' Smokies, for helping our Culinary Corner Cafe grow! #CulinaryCornerCafe #TCCTC #CulinaryArts #CommunitySupport #ThankYou #SupportOurStudents #LocalBusinesses

NEMCC hosts Tishomingo County Night💛🖤

🌟 Student Spotlight: Meet Addyson Nunley! 🌟 We are thrilled to recognize Addyson, a senior at Belmont High School, as this week’s Work-Based Learning Star! Alongside her WBL placement, Addyson is enrolled in Health Science II at the Tishomingo Career & Technical Center, having already successfully completed the two-year Teacher Academy program. Her ultimate goal? Attending nursing school to become a Registered Nurse! 🩺✨ Currently, Addyson is gaining invaluable hands-on experience working at Square Pharmacy and Gifts in Belmont, MS. A huge thank you to Stacy Credille and the entire team at Square Pharmacy and Gifts for participating in our program. Through this course, students like Addyson can earn high-school credit—satisfying Mississippi’s College and Career Readiness graduation requirement—while building essential workplace skills and responsibility. 💼 Local business partnerships are the backbone of our student success, offering meaningful pathways to graduation and real-world preparation. We are deeply grateful to our community partners for investing in the future of our students. Way to go, Addyson! We are so proud of your dedication and hard work. 🎉 #WorkBasedLearning #StudentSpotlight #FutureNurse #CareerAndTechEd #CommunityPartnerships #ClassOf2026

--🔌 Connecting Our Students to Real-World Skills! 🌐 We’d like to give a big THANK YOU to Grayson Stone and Houston Richardson with Tish Connect for taking the time to visit with our students and share their knowledge about splicing! Opportunities like this give our students valuable insight into the skills, technology, and careers used right here in our community. We appreciate local professionals who are willing to invest their time in educating and inspiring the next generation. 👏 Thank you, Grayson, Houston, and Tish Connect, for supporting our students and career and technical education! 💙 #TishConnect #CareerAndTechnicalEducation #CTE #HandsOnLearning #CareerReady #CommunityPartners #InvestingInStudents

🏈❤️💙 It’s Game Day in Tishomingo County! 💙❤️🏈 Tonight, our two high schools will meet on the football field as Belmont High School takes on Tishomingo County High School! Here at the Career & Technical Center, we have the privilege of teaching students from both sides of the field, so when these two teams meet, you might say our faculty has a hard time choosing sides! 😉 As you can see, we’re ready to support BOTH of our teams tonight! To the players, coaches, cheerleaders, bands, families, and fans — we hope you have a great game, play hard, stay safe, and represent your schools with pride! Tonight we may be divided by school colors, but we’re always ONE Tishomingo County community! 🏈🙌 Good luck, Belmont Cardinals and Tishomingo County Braves! ❤️💙

🚧💰 SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS! 💰🚧 Are you a senior interested in construction, skilled trades, or a construction-related career after graduation? Check out the Build Mississippi / Mississippi State Board of Contractors Scholarship! 🎓 Scholarship Award: $500 Eligible students must be graduating seniors planning to enroll in a construction-related degree program at an accredited community college, college or university, or a Build Mississippi Apprenticeship Program. Applicants will need: 🔹 A minimum 2.5 GPA 🔹 3 letters of recommendation 🔹 A short essay explaining why you are pursuing a career in construction and what that career path means to you 🔹 An official transcript or grade report Our CTE students work hard to develop skills that can lead directly into high-demand careers, and scholarships like this are a great way to help take that next step after graduation! 🛠️👷 👉 Apply here: https://buildmississippi.jotform.com/261885830214964 📣 Seniors — don't wait! Start gathering your materials and get that application submitted!

🦺🌾 Safety First with Farm Bureau! 🌾🦺 A big thank you to Farm Bureau for spending time with our students and providing a valuable safety presentation led by Benton Moseley! Safety is an important part of everything we do in Career and Technical Education. Presentations like this give our students an opportunity to hear directly from professionals in our community and reinforce the importance of developing safe habits now that they can carry with them into the workplace and throughout their lives. We are so thankful for community and industry partners like Farm Bureau who are willing to invest their time and resources in our students. These partnerships help us connect what students are learning in the classroom with real-world knowledge and experiences. Thank you, Benton Moseley and Farm Bureau, for investing in the safety and future of our students! 👏💙

📣 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Do you have a student who is a member of Beta Club or another school organization and needs volunteer/service hours? Or maybe you or your student would just like to give back to the community? ❤️ We are looking for volunteers to help with Town Appreciation Day on September 19th at Jay Bird Park! 🎉 Volunteers may help with: 🎯 Games and activities 🥤 Drinks and refreshments ⛺ Set-up 🧹 Clean-up/breakdown 🙌 And wherever else an extra set of hands is needed! ⏰ Event Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM We usually finish up around 3:00 PM. This is a great opportunity for students to earn volunteer hours while helping make a fun community event a success! Interested in helping, see Mrs. Chanta or Mrs. Heather G! Please share and help us spread the word! 💙

🎉 COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY! 🎉 Students, we need volunteers to help with Bingo festivities at the Burnsville Waterway Fest! 🎱🎪 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 ⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. 🙋 Students may volunteer for any time slot between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and earn community service hours for the time they work. Interested? Stop by and see Ms. Chanta or Ms. Heather G. to sign up for a time slot. Come have some fun, help with a great community event, and earn service hours at the same time! 💚

🌟 WBL STAR OF THE WEEK! 🌟 This week, we are proud to spotlight Carris Hemlinger, a senior at Tishomingo County High School! 🐾 Carris is currently enrolled in the Work Based Learning Program through the Tishomingo Career and Technical Center. He is no stranger to CTC—Carris is also a completer of our two-year Welding program! 🔥🧑‍🏭 Carris is currently employed at Taco Bell in Iuka, MS, where he is gaining valuable real-world work experience while earning high school credit through WBL. And Carris already has plans for his future! 🇺🇸 Following graduation, he has committed to serving our country as a member of the United States Marine Corps. We are incredibly proud of his commitment and look forward to seeing all that his future holds! ❤️🤍💙 🌮 A special thank you to Taco Bell in Iuka for participating in our Work Based Learning Program and providing students like Carris with opportunities to gain valuable workplace skills and experience. Community partnerships like these make a difference for our students! 👏 Congratulations, Carris, on being our WBL Star of the Week! Keep up the great work! #WorkBasedLearning #WBLStar #CTC #CareerAndTechnicalEducation #TCHS #StudentSpotlight #FutureMarine #USMC #CommunityPartners

🌟 WORK-BASED LEARNING SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Meet Chloe Gassaway, a senior at Belmont High School! 🐯 Chloe is currently enrolled in Engineering II at the Tishomingo Career & Technical Center and is gaining valuable real-world work experience at The Tiger Shack in Red Bay, Alabama. We would like to give a special THANK YOU to Shaun Sitton and The Tiger Shack for partnering with our Work-Based Learning (WBL) Program! 👏 Through Work-Based Learning, students like Chloe can earn high school credit for hours worked on the job. This credit can be used in place of the College and Career Readiness course, a graduation requirement in Mississippi. 🎓 Partnerships with local businesses are incredibly important because they give our students more options for meeting graduation requirements while also developing valuable workplace skills, responsibility, and experience. 💼 We appreciate businesses like The Tiger Shack for investing in our students and helping prepare them for life after high school! 👏 Way to go, Chloe! We are proud of you and the work you are doing! #WorkBasedLearning #WBL #StudentSpotlight #BelmontHighSchool #TishomingoCTC #TigerShack #CareerReady #FutureReady #CTE #RealWorldExperience

📣 STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY Students looking to earn community service hours have an opportunity to volunteer at the 50th Annual Belmont Car Show & Festival this Saturday, September 12, in Belmont, Mississippi! 📍 C.C. Shook Park 📅 Saturday, September 12 ⏰ 7:00–9:00 a.m. Volunteers will assist with unloading trucks and helping with festival setup. When you arrive, Mayor Brandon Pharr and Tamara Pharr will help assign students to an area where assistance is needed. This is a great way to earn service hours while helping with a special community event! ❓Have questions? Stop by one of the counselors’ offices for more information.

🥽💙 Industry Partners Making a Difference! 💙🥽 A BIG thank you to Sun-Air in Belmont for their generous donation of safety glasses for our students! Safety is a priority across so many of our Career and Technical Education programs, and having the proper protective equipment allows our students to learn and practice their skills in an environment that reflects real-world industry expectations. We are extremely fortunate to have local businesses and industry partners who continually step up to support our programs. Donations of equipment and supplies help us stretch our resources while making sure our students have what they need for meaningful, hands-on learning experiences. Thank you, Sun-Air, for investing in our students, supporting CTE, and helping us keep SAFETY FIRST! 🥽🛠️👏

🦌🦺 Hunter Safety Training at TCCTC! 🦺🦆 Safety first! Our first-year students recently had the opportunity to participate in a Hunter Safety Course right here on our campus. A BIG thank you to our instructors who took the time to present this important information and help our students learn the responsibilities and safety practices that go along with hunting and outdoor activities. We also want to give a special thank you to Game Warden Lane Young for joining us and bringing hands-on materials that helped bring the lessons to life! Having professionals from our community share their knowledge and real-world experience makes learning even more meaningful for our students. We love being able to offer opportunities that go beyond the traditional classroom and provide our students with practical knowledge and skills they can use for a lifetime. Thank you to everyone who helped make this opportunity possible for our students! 🦌👏

🧤💙 Industry Partners Supporting Our Students! 💙🧤 A BIG thank you to Mr. Timmy Anglin and PSP Industries for their generous donation of gloves for our students! Having the proper equipment and safety gear is an important part of giving our students authentic, hands-on experiences and preparing them for the expectations of the workplace. Donations like this help us continue providing those opportunities every day. We are incredibly thankful for our industry partners who invest in Career and Technical Education and understand the importance of preparing the next generation of skilled workers. Whether it’s donating equipment and supplies, serving on advisory committees, providing work-based learning opportunities, or sharing industry expertise, these partnerships make a difference! Thank you, Mr. Anglin and PSP Industries, for investing in our students and supporting CTE! 👏🧤🔧

🌟 WBL STUDENT SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Meet Madison Daily, a senior at TCHS, who is gaining valuable real-world experience through our Work-Based Learning (WBL) program! Madison is currently working at TCEPA as an Office Clerk, where she is developing important workplace skills, gaining hands-on experience, and learning what it takes to succeed in a professional environment. 📋💻 We are excited to see our students putting their skills to work while still in high school! Experiences like these help prepare students for success beyond graduation. 🎓👏 Way to represent TCCTC, Madison! We are proud of you! 💙 #WBL #WorkBasedLearning #StudentSpotlight #TCHS #CareerReady #FutureReady #LearningBeyondTheClassroom

🍤🔥 Culinary II is Serving Up Something Delicious! 🔥🍤 Our second-year Culinary Arts students were back in the kitchen putting their skills to work as they prepared Crispy Rice with Spicy Shrimp Salad — and the results looked amazing! 🤩 From preparing and cooking each component to assembling and presenting the finished dish, students had another opportunity to practice the hands-on skills that are such an important part of our Culinary Arts program. There’s no better way to learn culinary skills than to get in the kitchen and cook, and our second-year students are already showing us what they can do! Great job to our Culinary II students and their instructor, Ms. Heather Deaton! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳👏 And yes… we wish social media had a taste-test button! 😋🍤

🍤🔥 Culinary II is Serving Up Something Delicious! 🔥🍤 Our second-year Culinary Arts students were back in the kitchen putting their skills to work as they prepared Crispy Rice with Spicy Shrimp Salad — and the results looked amazing! 🤩 From preparing and cooking each component to assembling and presenting the finished dish, students had another opportunity to practice the hands-on skills that are such an important part of our Culinary Arts program. There’s no better way to learn culinary skills than to get in the kitchen and cook, and our second-year students are already showing us what they can do! Great job to our Culinary II students and their instructor, Ms. Heather Deaton! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳👏 And yes… we wish social media had a taste-test button! 😋🍤