MEDIA ADVISORY: KDE’s Office of Career and Technical Education to host CTE Showcase at the Capitol on Feb. 21

Who:

• Featured schools and pathways:

  • Breathitt County High School: Law Enforcement
  • Holmes High School/Chapman Career and Technical Education Center (Covington Independent): Carpentry
  • Locust Trace AgriScience Center (Fayette County): Agribusiness
  • Madison Southern High School (Madison County): Early Childhood
  • Mayfield/Graves County Area Technology Center (ATC): Health Science
  • Meade County College and Career Center: Marketing
  • Nelson County High School: Aerospace Engineering
  • Tates Creek High School (Fayette County): Education
  • Breckinridge County ATC: Welding
  • Elkhorn Crossing School (Scott County): Automation Engineering
  • Garrard County High School: E-Commerce
  • Garrard County High School/ATC: Health Science
  • Mason County High School: Culinary/Food Service
  • Owen County High School: Agriculture
  • Rowan County Senior High School: Graphic Design
  • Caldwell County High School: Entrepreneurship
  • iLEAD Academy: Computer Programming and Engineering
  • John Hardin High School (Hardin County): Agriculture
  • Logan County Career and Technical Center: Manufacturing, Health and Business
  • Shelby County ATC: Health Science
  • West Carter High School (Carter County): Hospitality, Travel and Tourism
  • Bowling Green High School (Bowling Green Independent): Industrial Maintenance
  • Harrison County ATC: Business Management
  • Johnson Central High School: Engineering and Media Arts
  • Menifee County High School: Horticulture
  • Nelson County ATC: Health Science
  • Whitley County High School: Welding
  • Early College and Career Center (Hardin County): Computer Programming
  • Logan County High School: Marketing
  • Owensboro High School (Owensboro Independent): Carpentry
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Fayette County): Engineering
  • Meade County High School: Business/Marketing

What:

With February being Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE’s) Office of Career and Technical Education is hosting a CTE Showcase. The showcase will highlight 32 CTE programs from across the Commonwealth with displays of innovative projects showing the benefits of CTE.

Highlights will include: metalwork in machine tools and welding; a student-created school news channel; a welding simulator; demonstrations in health science; an architectural model of a home; a carpentry program; a hydroponics program that supports the community; flight simulation through Bluegrass Aerospace Collaboration; and equine studies.

Guests also will be able to watch students bend conduit, see a solar car team in action and learn how CTE is combatting the teaching shortage.

Funding for the showcase is made possible through KDE’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds (ESSER II).

When:

Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. ET.

Where:           

Kentucky State Capitol, 700 Capital Ave., Frankfort