Dodge City Community College is excited to announce the dates for Leadership Institute 2009. We can’t wait to have you on our campus June 6-13. As a Leadership Institute participant you can:

• Earn three hours of college credit.

• Live the college experience.

• Meet other students from across the state.

To get started, check out all the academies we have to offer:

Earn an additional hour of college credit when you sign up for both Write to Win Saturdays. Learn how to write personal essays, cover letters and resumes on Saturday, June 6, and Saturday, June 13.

Save the date on your calendar and join us for this action-packed week.

Business Academy

Learn about the dynamic, changing world of business from some of the top entrepreneurs and CEOs in Kansas during Business Week at Dodge City Community College. You will gain an understanding of the free enterprise system from outstanding, caring college professors. Explore the relationship between business, government and society in presentations by local, state and national political figures. Learn about career opportunities available in marketing, management, accounting, international business, finance and operations management. Share the experience with other top high school students!

Feeding the World: Agriculture Academy

The Kansas Future Teacher Academy is an intense five-day orientation program for Kansas high school students considering teaching as a career.

The Academy introduces students to:

• A wide variety of career opportunities in education.

• Issues in K-12 education, governance and finance.

• Problem solving and creativity building.

• Leadership skill development.

• Award-winning teachers current in their fields.

• Peers from around the state interested in teaching.

The Visual Arts Academy is a perfect blend of art history and our contemporary art culture! Learn about active artists as well as spend time creating your own art at the DCCC art studios. Multiple media will be explored including projects in drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry and design. Students will have the opportunity to explore their creative sides during workshops and activities. The week will culminate in a public exhibition of the students’ artwork.

With the shortage of qualified nurses and health care professionals, choosing a career in the allied health field will be a smart decision. If you’re a student who’s interested in a health care career, the Future Nursing Academy at Dodge City Community College will help you learn where you fit in this growing, essential industry. You’ll do that by:

• Exploring different fields of health care.

• Interacting with health care professionals.

• Experiencing hands-on learning with patient simulators and other high tech equipment.

• Identifying educational support services to boost your entry into health care.

• Discovering what fields you’re best suited for while you tour local health care facilities and listen to medical practitioners.

Fire/Rescue and EMS Academy

This program will involve the student in college level topics of magnetism, electricity, light, gravity, mountain building and geologic time, fossils, rocks and minerals, meteorites, black holes, quasars, and the births, lives and deaths of stars. There will also be sections dealing with weather, GPS navigation technology and geocaching. This course will center on hands-on laboratory exercises utilizing state of the art software and sensor interfaces, lectures, discussions, internet animations, viewing the sun, moon and stars with 10" telescope and field trips both on and off campus.

With the shortage of law enforcement officers across the state, this academy will help you explore the opportunities that await you. Our program focuses on the basic job functions that are required for entry-level law enforcement officers. You will learn:

• How to process a crime scene.

• Major crime investigation techniques.

• How to collect and process evidence.

• Drug investigation tactics.

• Careers in law enforcement.

• The D.A.R.E. program.

Write to Win gives you the opportunity to draft useful documents to include in college and employment applications over the course of two Saturday sessions. Both sessions include some lecture, lots of hands-on, and quite a bit of feedback from your classmates and your instructor. The first Saturday session (June 6), "Write to Win: Personal Essay," focuses on writing an essay about educational or employment goals and motivations. During the second Saturday session (June 13), "Write to Win: Resumes and Cover Letters," you’ll generate professional cover letters and a formatted listing of your accomplishments, awards, and experience. If you successfully complete both Saturday sessions, you can earn one hour of college credit.