Text Box: January 2007 Text Box: Westwood High School Business Department Text Box: Biz Insider Text Box: Patriot Promotions, the school store, is managed by the 3rd and 4th hour marketing classes and is advised by Mrs. Debra DeVries. There are many things that Patriot Promotions does including making designs for t-shirts, sweatshirts, and sweatpants. The marketing class has their own heat press so that they can transfer designs to their apparel. Patriot Promotions also designs the Money Saver Cars which can be used to receive a discount at many local businesses. For this school year, the marketing Text Box: class purchased a new color printer which is used for many things such as the sports calendar. Each class takes turns baking cookies, which are sold during the lunch hour. At the end of the year, any student who is or was enrolled in the marketing class has the opportunity to go out for dinner and ice cream, with all expenses paid for by money raised by Patriot Promotions throughout the school year. Stop in to the school store, room 119, to see what Patriot Promotions has to offer you! Text Box: Patriot Promotions Text Box: New Student Teacher Arrives Text Box: Mr. Steven Kass is the new student teacher in the business department at Westwood High School. He is originally from Hancock, Michigan, and is currently attending Northern Michigan University and will graduate this May. He has achieved a double major in business and economics. He is hoping to teach grades 7-12. His hobbies include hunting and Text Box: fishing, the outdoors, and running. His future plans include maybe going to graduate school. His past experiences include a DNR Explorer Guide, Clear Lake for two years, and forest service at Grand Island. We are very happy to have him in our business department and excited to learn new things from him!

Mr. Steven Kass

Westwood’s Business Department is a registered Certipoint testing center for exams in Microsoft Office applications.  Students enrolled in business courses have the opportunity to take these exams for free.  They can choose a variety of programs to test from; Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

We are proud to announce the following Certified Microsoft Office Specialists for 2006-2007:

Heidi Jaykka
Casey Phillips
Devon LaVoy
Cynthia Patton

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