CareerTech breaks ground on new Skills Center facility
Oklahoma CareerTech broke ground for a new Skills Center instructional facility at John H. Lilley Correctional Center in Boley recently.
The new building will house a career readiness program, an underground utility program and a skilled trade program.
“We are excited to begin our second construction project for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections,” said Jerry Burnett, Skills Centers state superintendent. “Our partnership with the Department of Corrections has been outstanding, and we look forward to continuing to provide job training opportunities for inmates for many years to come.”
Read more on the Oklahoma CareerTech website.
Tri County Tech to break ground on Emergency Services Center
Tri County Technology Center will break ground this week on a new Emergency Services Center.
Workforce and Economic Development Director Kyle Ppool told KWON radio station that the new facility will be “basically a fire station on campus,” with classrooms where living quarters would normally be.
Tri County offers both police and fire training and has started a high school fire training program that allows students to earn fire and emergency medical technician certificates.
Read more on the KWON website.
First-generation student finds career path at Tulsa Tech
A first-generation student in Tulsa wrote in The 74 about how perseverance helped her find her way to graduation and how she found a career path at Tulsa Technology Center.
Camila Linares navigated school as a student whose first language was not English and discovered a love of math and numbers in middle school. In high school, she enrolled in a two-year program at Tulsa Tech that allows students to learn more about engineering or pre-med. There, she discovered she wanted to study electrical engineering. In the fall, she plans to attend Washington University in St. Louis.
Read more on The 74 website.
Kingfisher superintendent says CareerTech helps attendance
Oklahoma’s school attendance is better than the national average, and the superintendent of Kingfisher Public Schools says technology center enrollment helps his high school attendance rate.
Superintendent Andy Evans told Oklahoma Voice that CareerTech classes and concurrent college enrollment have helped Kingfisher Public Schools keep high school students in class.
What helps enrollment most, he said, is “the value of the education to a person.”
Read more on the Oklahoma Voice website.
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