Career Academy Program

The Career Academy program is a school instructional program with the goal of motivating students to participate in courses and activities that will lead to graduation with a high school diploma. An industry recognized credential or prepared to enter post-secondary education in a related degree program. It is a career oriented program with the direct involvement of local employer to provide students with a major step towards the skills employers need. It prepares students academically and vocationally for either entrance to college or career in a selected field or both.

Career Academy Program:

1. Involves a close working partnership between the high school and local businesses.
2. Focuses on the concept that all students select a career pathway upon which to focus their studies while in high school.
3. All require parental and guardian permission for participation in the program.
4. Orient students toward graduation and receiving a fully credited diploma.
5. Develops workplace skills used and needed by local employers.
6. Includes a job shadowing in the 10th grade, mentoring in the 11th grade and internship in the 12th grade.
7. All students are enrolled in an integrated curriculum with a minimum of three academic classes and one vocational technical course in a block-scheduling format each semester during high school.

Career Academy Program Required Elective

1. Natural Resources NR
   - Agriculture  I – Computer Literacy
   – Agriculture II - General Business

2. Industrial Engineering CT
   - Construction I & II - Computer Literacy
   - Construction Tech III & IV - General Business & Physics

3. Industrial Engineering AT
   – Automotive  I & II – Computer Literacy
   – Automotive Tech III & IV - General Business & Physics

4. Business Information BU
   - Introduction to Business/Computer Application I & II
       – General Business
       - Office Practice
   - Business Math/Bookkeeping
       - Advance Computer
       - Economics

5. Health & Human Services HHS
   - Hotel Operations I/Tour Guide Principles
       - Japanese I
       - Computer Literacy
   - Hotel Operations II/Tour Operation Mgmt
       - Japanese II
       - Cultural Research