22-23 Work Based Learning facts: -91,500 total hours worked -86% of seniors worked -52% worked 250+ hours -34% of seniors accepted positions -3 seniors worked 1700+ hours each, earning more than $25,000 each. It pays to go to school!

This is one of the most talented IMD groups of all time. 1 BPA National Champion, 7 National Qualifiers, 16 Businesses launched, 2500 Work-Based Learning hours, 513 College Credits earned, and 54 Adobe Certifications earned. What an amazing group.

Last night at the May regular meeting of the South-Western City School District Board of Education, leadership welcomed and recognized South-Western Career Academy (SWCA) senior Bella Mattox who recently took home 1st Place nationally for Promotional Photography at the Business

National. Champion. Congratulations to @SWCA_Careers senior Bella Mattox who took home National Champion and 1st Place honors for Promotional Photography at the Business Professionals of America (BPA) Leadership Conference held this past weekend. Congratulations Bella!

Project Based Learning in IMD #swcsd #swca

Amazing day for us @bpa at our state competition. Sending(and traveling with) 6 Cyber students to Dallas for National competition. 1st in SQL, 3rd in Computer Security, and 2nd in Network Design Team. Lots of talent in this picture. @SWCA_Careers

IMD’s band “Paper Notes” performing at The A&R Music bar for the InstaBand competition put on by GrooveU.

Vote for Paper Notes Three students entered the InstaBand competition and made it to the finals. 48 hours to vote for Paper Notes The form is out to vote! It will be up for 48 hours. Vote Now https://t.co/3CUZdaMy9J

2021-2022 BPA Award Winners. IMD has 18 State Qualifiers.

Thank you Darby Woods room 107 for sending us your colored pages. The Interactive Media Design program made Halloween coloring pages while learning the pen path tool tracing in Adobe Illustrator.

SWCA Interactive Media Design students Lia Hoyt and Bella Mattox assisted Live Streaming the SW Cols Candidate Forum. Event sponsors: League of Women Voters & Franklin Co Consortium for Good Government. Great work by SWCA students using Career Tech Skills @SWCSD #SWCAProud

Shooting some food items for the Academy Grill. #swca #IMD #swcsd #foodphotography

IMD Juniors photo shoots. Learning digital photography.

.@IMDSWCA1 great morning for our programs!! Qualified 4 @SWCA_Careers students to @National_BPA . These 4 students now get showcase their skills against other states. Congrats Jonathan, Arden, Kolten and Carlee!!

Using a Ronin-S gimbal to shoot some b-roll.

Behind the scenes for our promo video about IMD.

Photoshoot for the culinary program Academy Grill

Filming Dr. Wise on green screen in IMD. #SWCS #SWCA #IMD

Yesterday I finished setting up iPads and delivered them to our @IMDSWCA1 program and today they are already using Adobe Rush for a filming exercise!

CONGRATULATIONS to SWCA Mobile Apps instructor, Mr. Fitzer. He was recognized as Ohio ACTE Teacher of the Year for 2019-2020. SWCA & our community are proud to have you work with our students & staff. More info at this link: https://t.co/ooQWkwm4Q6 @OhioACTE