Surgery on a gummy bear?! Students practiced using directional anatomical terms by cutting planes into gummy bears. #handsonlearning Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD TECC West

Some of our Principles of Ag kiddos got explorative with our aeroponic towers (a gracious new gift from Briarhill Elementary!!). 2 towers are set up and germinating, stay tuned for baby sprouts and production!!

A week full of Mum history, planning and crafting with intro to floral students! The AM class finished up our mini mums today (and sported some of their own hoco mums!) We are so grateful for these hands-on builds & take home projects for all floral students!! TECC-West Floral Design

Principles of Ag students rounded out our Poultry chapter of Small Animal Production by dissecting eggs from our campus chickens. The task? Identifying and separating the various layers & membranes within the shell and yolks/albumens. (All the yuck, yet so cool!) Fun lab Friday!

While principles students dissected, Floral students in the AM had a chance to initiate some higher thinking on color theory and the color wheel while learning about the Principles & Elements of floral design. Students utilized ‘Hues & Cues’ to master the color wheel.

How do you utilize landscaping plants as Christmas surprises…rosemary wreaths! Principles of Ag got to try their hand at some plant science fun utilizing our plants from previous sales, surprisingly all of these were made from just three mother plants!! 🎄🎀 TECC West Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD

What a joy it was to leave our FFA meeting last night and see our Electrical departments hard work truly show off. Mr. Keyes and his students did an AMAZING job with our landscaping light installment!! Endless thank yous for extended light for late night work and space expansion!

Our PAFNR class completed their MRW Work Ethic Certifications yesterday, and we could not be more proud! These 14 students are the FIRST in LISD to complete Mike Rowe’s course and earn their certificate. Way to go, principles of ag!! What a way to end the semester!

First day of Spring 2025 is officially in the books! Between spaghetti towers and busy bees, our AM & PM classes spent some time today getting to know campus norms, intros, and some stem activities to get back into our daily routines after a great winter break!

The greenhouse is up and running again, and we are loving our new arrivals. Hoya kerrii single heart variegated is giving us all the pre-valentine’s day feelings!! 🪴 TECC West Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD

Genetic Variation 101: below is our Begonia Big Whopper Red, used for landscaping purposes. As we grow these out, we spotted one slightly different in coloration, becoming ‘chunky’ in the color block. We will continue to isolate the gene to further grow out this rarity! Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD

Happy Monstera Monday and hello to our new GEM in the greenhouse!! Thankful for our industry connections and their generosity to show our program economic highs in the world of botany. Is a Monstera borsigiana var. albo variegata on your wish list this year?? Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD TECC West

The rain is definitely bringing our spring flowers. Safe travels and happy Tuesday from the greenhouse. Stay tuned this week for our sale date announcement! (Pictured: Osteospartum Gelato Surprise) Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD TECC West

IT’S OFFICIAL: Our spring plant sale will be April 25th and 26th this year, and our students have been growing a plethora of plants for you all! See flyer for more details, and we hope to see you there! TECC West Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD

We LOVED all our visitors today, including some staff for tomato repots (Mrs. Surgeson is the BEST). It was great to see students identifying plants learned through the floral pathway, down to discussing differences in species & varieties! Amazing work, Ms. Vela. ☺️🪴

From touring the begonia greenhouse, butterfly garden, BRIT, and so much more, our Horticulture pathway had a DAY at the FWBG. Students also got to meet with a variety of representatives from different aspects of work, from the TCU biology dept to the EPA’s in North Texas! 🪴💚

Branching on from our day at the FWBG, our greenhouse opened its doors for day 1 of the annual spring plant sale! Be sure to stop in on day two, surprise price slashes may be seen in the greenhouse! Thank you to those who came to support our program & FFA chapter today. 🪴💚

Our last flip of the aeroponics tower was completed by Kai H. today in the horticulture class. We cannot wait to see how the leafy green & herb towers take off over the next couple of weeks before summer!! (Shhh…the plants are sleeping…) Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD TECC West

A huge shout out to FFA Member & Animal Science Pathway student AJ Fouche for bringing two of her horses up for a hands-on learning experience in the equine unit. We had so much fun learning equipment & tack, anatomy, and so much more!! Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD TECC West

Meet Muffin & Maple, the newest addition to our campus journey. These two were recently adopted from Briarhill MS and have been showing off why they are commonly called ‘Easter Eggers’. Stay tuned to see the hen house continue to grow! TECC West Career & Technical Education Lewisville ISD