TECH PREP OFFERS STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO
EARN COLLEGE CREDIT IN HIGH SCHOOL!
The best guarantee of success for today’s students includes a post-secondary education combined with career skills. In a Tech Prep program students will acquire both. Tech Prep blends career skills and academic education in a challenging and purposeful curriculum that spans high school and related postsecondary education.
Tech Prep gives young people options
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To get a head start by earning college credit while still in high school
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To get into a top career field after two years of post-high school study
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To complete a four-year college degree before starting their career
Yavapai County Tech Prep wants its students to become successful, productive adults with satisfying careers, and it offers this opportunity through Tech Prep courses in each of the public high schools throughout Yavapai County combined with continuing education at Yavapai College and any of its branch campuses.
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, Automotives, Child Care, Computers, Building Trades, Drafting, Graphic Design, Media Productions, Photography and Welding.
The above link provides access to the current articulation agreement adopted August, 1998 between Yavapai County Tech Prep and Yavapai Community College
The above link provides access to the bylaws of Yavapai County Tech Prep last amended April 21, 2008.
MISSION STATEMENT:
Yavapai County Tech Prep supports, promotes and encourages quality career and technical education programs to maximize the linkages among secondary and post-secondary education, employers and communities and to insure a skilled, educated, technologically advanced workforce.
VISION STATEMENT:
Yavapai County Tech Prep students enter the workforce with the knowledge, technical skills, and behaviors necessary to build a career-of-choice and contribute toward a healthy, productive and ever-changing society.
YAVAPAI TECH
PREP POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
The above link provides access to a presentation created for use in
explaining the composition and purpose of Yavapai County Tech Prep.
FOR INFORMATION:
For more information concerning the requirements and benefits of the Tech Prep program, contact a site coordinator at any of the following participating schools near you.