Great Plains students will compete in a record number of national CTSO Skills and Leadership competitions this year. Twenty-six students will compete for 28 blue ribbons. Two students, Michael Ball and Blake Bender, each won two first place state CTSO awards and will represent Oklahoma in two categories....

Great Plains 3-D Animation students production of a wild and nearly two minute long train ride captured first place in the national Business Professionals of America (BPA) Computer Animation Skills Contest.  The 3-D animation entitled “Welcome to Merrieville” won the award at the national BPA Conference...

Great Plains Leadership Class is a program that identifies, encourages and develops students with the desire and characteristics to become leaders. Community awareness and personal development activities take place throughout the school year to build leadership and teamwork skills, develop ambassadors...

Four new bison statues stand tall at Great Plains Technology Center TYRELL ALBIN Have you “herd” about the latest additions to the Great Plains Technology Center’s landscaping? Four “bronze” bison that’s buffalo to Oklahomans have roamed onto the Lawton campus grounds, where...

Congratulations to Carl Wicks and former student and now evening instructor Terry Oates. The two refurbished a broken Victor the Police Car. Victor is the small remote-controlled mini car used in LPD demonstrations at such locations as schools. Victor was non-operational and Carl and Terry brought him...

HOSA student winners, from left: Torres Schlitte, Shayla Ebisch, Christa Pulliam, Allegra Brewer, Brett Lovett, Amy Mott Great Plains students triumphed at national contests again this year!  Here’s a final rundown. Surgical Technology and Radiologic Technology students won 1st place at earlier this...

Article published in the Lawton Constitution highlights the GPTC’s multimedia team. Texting video earns students first place, trip to Washington TYRELL ALBIN Staff Writer Lawton Constitution Bringing home the Gold!! The Great Plains Technology Center instructor of the multimedia assistant program,...

GPTC (Frederick campus) Multimedia student, Steven Rodriguez’s, center, is standing out from a crowd of supportive and proud classmates. Steven proudly shows off his winning t-shirt design for the Spring Leadership Conference and Business Professionals of America competition. Steven’s design was...

GPTC Students Will Battle Cyber Threats in National Event ~ Three cheers for Network Security Technician instructor Wes Sloan and his Cyber Patriots team as they have qualified for the finals in the national online competition.  The GPTC  team is one of 12 high school teams that has been invited to...

Buddy Neasbitt, instructor for Great Plains Technology Center’s Criminal Justice Officer career major has been named the 2010 Association of Career and Technical Education’s New Teacher of the Year. Buddy joined the staff in 2004 and took a rough idea of a Criminal Justice Academy and brought the...

Great Plains was honored with a presentation of a special banner commemorating the successful accreditation through Project Lead the Way.  The recertification process occurs every five years. Presenting the banner were:  Dr. Johnson, Associate Dean Oklahoma State University School of Engineering and...

Mike Farrell and Jackie Archer win the Innova Award for Learning from Project Lead the Way. The award is given to one teacher or teaching team who one high school teacher or teaching team in the nation was chosen as the school which best represents Project Lead the Way’s criteria of meeting strict...

Pictured with Radiologic Technology instructor Carrie Baxter, left, is Brett Lovett. Lovett won first place for Physical Therapy at the national HOSA competition in Orlando. Lovett is Great Plains’ first Radiologic Technology student to win first place at nationals. Great Plains students chocked up...

From left, Jessica White, Christina Price, Traci Keenan and Timothy Newton won first place for the HOSA Community Awareness team. They are among 18 Great Plains students who placed first in their student organization’s state leadership conferences and competition. Great Plains Technology Center students...

Cameron University will honor Cameron alumnus and Great Plains Technology Center Superintendent Jim Nisbett, who is retiring on June 30, by naming Cameron’s tuition waiver scholarship for Great Plains Technology Center students the Jim Nisbett Tuition Waiver Scholarship. The scholarship, initiated...

Kent Murray’s agriculture business management program has been named as the nation’s Outstanding Postsecondary/Adult Agriculture Education program. Judges praised Murray’s work in helping farmer’s across Great Plains become more technologically savvy in their record keeping. Murray’s award...

A 45 year career in public education is coming to an end.  Great Plains superintendent Jim Nisbett has announced his retirement effective June 30, 2010, the end of the fiscal year.  Nisbett has worked at Great Plains since 1981, the last 15 years as superintendent. Nisbett says when he came to work...

Great Plains Law Enforcement Instructor Buddy Neasbitt has been named New Teacher of the Year by the Oklahoma Association of Career and Technology Education, (OKACTE). Neasbitt who first won the Outstanding New Teacher award for his Trade and Industrial Division will now represent Oklahoma at the six-state...