Career and Technical Education

This course helps students identify and demonstrate the workplace skills that employers desire in their future employees. Students analyze their personal assets, explore career clusters and career pathways, and draft an Academic and Career Plan based on their academic and career interests. Additional areas of focus include planning for academic courses, work-based learning opportunities, opportunities to earn industry certifications, and planning for postsecondary success.

This middle school computer science course explores concepts in computer programming. Students are introduced to block-based or text-based programming to review and build on computational thinking and computer science skills. Students also study the history of computers and computer science.

Students apply the engineering design process to plan, build, and communicate inventions or innovations that address contemporary technological problems facing them, their community, and the world. This hands-on course allows students to apply creativity and innovation that emphasizes working in teams and the safe use of technological and engineering tools and equipment.

Students will experience the problems and opportunities of our increasingly technological society. The class will provide hands-on learning to explore technologies and the systems of which they are composed. They also explore technology-oriented careers and project-based learning to explore technological systems.

Students use the engineering design process to guide them through various hands-on activities and projects, utilizing safe use of tools, materials, and techniques to solve problems. Students explore their relationship to technology and engineering, and how technology affects the world around them, as well as careers in the fields of technology and engineering.

This Family and Consumer Sciences exploratory course helps students continue to build on knowledge and skills acquired in previous Family and Consumer Sciences courses to lead better lives, be career-ready, build strong families, and make meaningful contributions to their communities. Students focus on topics related to human development, interpersonal relationships, nutrition and wellness, financial literacy, textiles and apparel, child development, leadership, workplace readiness, and career exploration and planning.

This Family and Consumer Sciences exploratory course prepares students to become life-ready as they manage individual, family, career, and community roles and responsibilities. Students explore topics related to human development, positive interpersonal relationships, nutrition and wellness, financial literacy, leadership development, and workplace readiness skills.

This foundation course introduces the use of relevant and emerging technologies, tools, and applications to prepare students for current workplace practices and everyday life. Students will demonstrate information processing using a variety of hardware and software and Internet-based tools to produce and integrate data in various formats. This course is designed for students wishing to progress through more advanced business and information technology coursework.

Students are introduced to computing devices and software as problem-solving tools. Emphasis is placed on using basic touch keyboarding skills to complete a variety of projects incorporating word processing, database, presentation, and spreadsheet software. Basic Internet safety, coding, and device maintenance are components of this course.