Team-Based Challenges and CTSO’s

Students from the MACS region participate in several team-based challenges, including –

• MVCC Pastry Skills Competition
• MVCC Culinary Skills Competition
• MVCC Tech Skills and Rapid Prototyping Challenge
• MVCC Early Childhood Education Skills Competition
• MVCC Business Skills Competition
• Southworks Engineering & Robotics Competition

Career Pathway Endorsement Team-Based Challenges should include the following features:

1. Authentic problem or challenge
2. identified from and/or in collaboration with industry partners – Partner
3. is regionally relevant
4. is globally connected
   • results in a real solution that can be implemented in the “real world”
   • Problem/Task Description:
   • Challenges require students to demonstrate pathway-specific competencies
   • Students demonstrate cross-sector essential employability competencies (Essential Skills)
   • Students demonstrate entrepreneurial competencies
   • Successful demonstration of the competencies represented through a rubric and/or another form of authentic assessment
   • Assessments preferably done in collaboration with industry professionals
     • Pathway-specific Competencies that will be taught and assessed:
     • Cross-Sector Employability Competencies that will be taught and assessed
5. Students work in collaborative groups to solve the problem.
6. A final presentation or a final product
7. Team-Based Challenge Setting:
   • Classroom/Course
   • Co-Curricular Activity
   • Outside Organization