2025 NCE Conference: Full Schedule

10:00am CDT

ACTEN Meeting

Monday June 9, 2025 10:00am - 11:15am CDT

Speakers

Rick Painter

Monday June 9, 2025 10:00am - 11:15am CDT
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Cross Career Field Agriculture Food and Natural Resources Business Marketing and Management Communication and Information Systems Human Sciences and Education (FCS) Health Sciences Skilled and Technical Sciences School Counselors

1:00pm CDT

Working in the 30% Zone

Monday June 9, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT

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Learn how to fall back in love with your job and what it means to live and work in the actively engaged 30% Zone. Leadership expert and professional speaker Kelly Barnes has worked with thousands of professionals for 15+ years and has designed a program that will help your team find the joy and meaning in working with students. Kelly’s strategies include time management, stress management, team building techniques, communication effectiveness and more. This program not only contains tangible, relevant and meaningful content, but is also delivered in a fun, interactive and memorable package.

Speakers

Kelly Barnes

Monday June 9, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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2:00pm CDT

Make It A Habit

Monday June 9, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

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This fast paced life of ours is full of repetition. This hilarious and interactive keynote explores the science and art of habit formation. Kelly guides participants on how to build positive habits that lead to personal and professional growth. Learn how to have the drive and energy to make it happen and how to motivate others to do the same.

Speakers

Kelly Barnes

Monday June 9, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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10:00am CDT

Teaming Up To Make A Difference

Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT

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If you want to feel empowered to succeed as part of a team, this breakout rocks it. Join Eddie Slowikowski for a raucous, high-spirited, musical trivia dance party – and learn amazing Teambuilding skills along the way. This breakout promotes an environment of collaboration, creative thinking, innovation and outright fun. A highly motivating experience of interactive teamwork – Eddie uses popular culture, today’s biggest music hits, and teambuilding things to get participants moving, heart’s pumping and the competition flying.

Speakers

Eddie Slowikowski

Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am CDT
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11:00am CDT

True Values

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:00am - 11:45pm CDT

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What is truly valuable in life? What do you believe in? It’s time to find out what lies underneath your actions. Take a powerful journey of self-discovery with Eddie Slowikowski by grappling with the biggest challenges in your life. Establish your priorities, identify your strengths and overcome your fears to come face-to-face with “the real you.”

Speakers

Eddie Slowikowski

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:00am - 11:45pm CDT
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5:00pm CDT

FCSTN Banquet (Social Hour 5:00pm; Dinner 6:00pm)

Tuesday June 10, 2025 5:00pm - 9:00pm CDT

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Pre-registration required. Grand buffet, fresh garden salad, fresh crudité display, roast beef, Creamy Tuscan chicken, twice baked mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts with lardons and New York style cheesecake.

Speakers

Michelle Paxton Angie Ehlers Miranda Bright

Tuesday June 10, 2025 5:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
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Human Sciences and Education (FCS)

9:00am CDT

Making Accounting Class REAL, Relevant, & FUN!

Wednesday June 11, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am CDT

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This generation is a tough audience! Let’s do a deep dive into scientifically proven factors that help them learn. Explore some proven methods of teaching, instructional strategies, and instructional tools that work with this generation of learners. Prepare yourself for a new outlook on teaching and learning where students take an active role, and we allow their voices to be heard.

Speakers

Denise Leigh

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Denise Leigh has spent her career empowering young people as a high school business education teacher for 28 years in rural Pennsylvania. Denise has taught 12 different business education classes over the years from Career Exploratory to Accounting, Computer Applications, and Entrepreneurship... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am CDT
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Business Marketing and Management