DeQueen-Mena Education Service Cooperative

Thank you to Nidec for your incredible support of the Girl Power Manufacturing Contest! Your generous Partner in Education contribution helps create opportunities for young women to explore careers in manufacturing and build skills for the future.
We appreciate your investment in students, workforce development, and our community!
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28 days ago, DMESC

Today, 7 DMESC district techs came together to work on Act 504 cybersecurity! 🔐💪
Shoutout to Sherri Powell (ORSD) for sharing helpful strategies to streamline policies and procedures. 👏
And a huge thanks to Staci Stagg (Cisco) for sponsoring our Lunch & Learn and sharing info about Network Academy! 💻✨
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29 days ago, DMESC

Thank you to Tractor Supply for your incredible support of the Girl Power Manufacturing Contest! Your generous Partner in Education contribution helps create opportunities for young women to explore careers in manufacturing and build skills for the future.
We appreciate your investment in students, workforce development, and our community!
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29 days ago, DMESC

👏 Congratulations to our Elementary Quiz Bowl Tournament winners! 🏆
Today’s competition was full of impressive knowledge, great sportsmanship, and fast buzzer skills. We’re proud of every team that competed—thank you for making it such a fun and successful event!
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29 days ago, DMESC

DMESC hosted FBLA District Testing for more than fifty high school students from Caddo Hills, De Queen, Dierks, Foreman, Horatio, Mineral Springs, & Oden! FBLA District Testing involves competitive exams on various business topics and serves as a crucial step in the Future Business Leaders of America competition pathway, where members demonstrate their knowledge in areas such as finance, marketing, or IT, leading to regional and state recognition, with successful test-takers advancing to higher levels of competition.
DMESC would like to extend a special thank you to FBLA District IV Coordinator Carie Maroon for being on hand and serving as a test proctor for the students.
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30 days ago, DMESC

Karen Garner, Local Lead Captain, has been attending staff meetings at area child care centers and discussing the new assessment tool called CLASS. Garner is a Prek & Infant/toddler observer as well as a measurement trainer for Prek, and recently completed her measurement training for Infant/toddler. Every child care center that receives funding for children (vouchers) will have a piloted CLASS observation this year. The 26/27 school year will be the first year that every classroom at all sites will receive a formal observation 2 times per year. Pictured is Garner with the director, Gwen Williams, and her staff of Mary’s Little Lamb Childcare and Preschool located in Ashdown. This wonderful group of ladies was eager to connect, collaborate, and learn about the CLASS tool.
**EARLY YEARS ARE IMPORTANT LEARNING YEARS….📚✂️✏️
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

DMESC's Foster Grandparent Program volunteers worked very hard on making blankets for patients for their MLK Service Project in December. These blankets will be distributed this month for cancer patients receiving chemo, for children in Arkansas Children's Hospital or for newborns and moms at local pregnancy centers. Blankets are donated to at least 8 facilities in Arkansas. #yourBESTsolution #thinkcoop1st We Serve and Support our Schools so that ALL Students Succeed. #AmericorpsSeniors #FosterGrandparents60

about 1 month ago, DMESC

DMESC's Foster Grandparent Program volunteers worked very hard on making blankets for patients for their MLK Service Project in December. These blankets will be distributed this month for cancer patients receiving chemo, for children in Arkansas Children's Hospital or for newborns and moms at local pregnancy centers. Blankets are donated to at least 8 facilities in Arkansas.
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

🏆 Congratulations to our Jr. High Quiz Bowl Tournament winners! 📚✨
🥇 1st Place: Caddo Hills
🥈 2nd Place: Cossatot River
We’re so proud of these students for their quick thinking, teamwork, and outstanding performance! 👏 Thank you to all the teams, coaches, and schools who participated and helped make this a great competition! 🎉
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a reminder that education and service go hand in hand. We honor Dr. King’s legacy by continuing to serve schools, educators, and students with purpose, equity, and care.
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

Contact Shannon Miller for more information! Earn your teaching license with ArPEP and begin earning a full-time teacher salary next fall!
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

De Queen Mena ESC, creator of the increasingly popular Girl Power event, is a student production contest created to generate interest in females' non-traditional careers in the manufacturing and construction career pathways. Now in its FIFTH year, this initiative has exploded into a state competition involving educational cooperatives across Arkansas. If you would like more information, contact Beau McCastlain, CTE Coordinator, beau.mccastlain@dmesc.org.

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about 1 month ago, DMESC

🩺Great conversations today as our Community Health Nurse Specialist, Leigh Garner, meets with our DMESC Wellness Committee to support student and staff wellness. 💙
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

Thank you, ADE and DCTE, for supporting our CTF cybersecurity event and spending the day with us at the coop! We’re grateful for the partnership and shared commitment to student learning. 🔐🚩#yourBESTsolution
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

Huge congratulations to the students for their incredible hard work, creativity, and teamwork during DMESC’s Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition! Your determination and problem-solving skills truly shined, making this event an exciting and inspiring success. Way to go! 🎉💻🏈
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about 1 month ago, DMESC

🏈💻 Students from 11 districts and 16 teams are competing in DMESC’s football-themed Capture the Flag cybersecurity challenge! Created by the DMESC AR Computer Science Specialist, this hacker-style escape room marks the second year DMESC has hosted the event.
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about 1 month ago, DMESC