Career Preparation
The best guarantee of success for today’s students is academic, technical, and workplace skills as well as postsecondary education. In a Tech Prep program, students acquire all of these skills while still in high school and further their skills and education with postsecondary education. Tech Prep blends all of these skills by providing a purposeful and challenging curriculum that integrates academic and technical skills in high school and prepares students for the “world of work” or further education.
Tech Prep Gives Young People Options
Students learn marketable skills and can earn industry certifications while still in high school that can lead to employment after graduation
- Students learn skills that are valued and recognized by the military
- Students earn free college credit while still in high school, giving them a head start in postsecondary education leading to an Associate Degree or Industry Certificate
- Students can transfer their skills and training on to a four-year
college before starting their career
Pima & Santa Cruz Tech Prep wants students to become successful, productive adults, with satisfying careers that contribute to the economic well being of Pima and Santa Cruz Counties. Pima & Santa Cruz Tech Prep offers these opportunities through Tech Prep courses in each of the public high schools throughout Pima and Santa Cruz Counties combined with continuing education at Pima Community College, Central Arizona Community College, and Cochise Community College.
Tech Prep offerings can lead graduates to high-skill, high-wage jobs in some of the fastest growing career fields in the nation including: Accounting, Aviation, Automotive, Business, Building Trades, Cabinetmaking, Carpentry, CISCO, Computer Applications, Culinary Arts, Desktop Publishing, Digital Arts, Drafting, Early Childhood, Financial Services, Hospitality, Machine Tooling, Marketing, Media Productions, Photography, Sales, Small Computer Repair, and Welding.
Interested? Come on inside and see how Tech Prep can help you!
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