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It's estimated Virginia will need nearly 200,000 skilled trades workers in the next decade! Be a part of the solution by learning a skilled trade, gain industry certifications, and find a career at CATEC! Celebrate Careers in Construction Month with us. #cicm #buildyourfuture
It's National School Bus Safety Week! Thank to all of our bus drivers who transport our students each day. We appreciate all you do. Today Mr. James gave lunch coolers full of goodies to our drivers. @CvilleSchools @k12albemarle @cvilleschools @albemarlecountypublicschools
Tonight our Center and Joint Boards met and a big shout out goes to our Culinary Arts program for catering a lovely meal for our Board. Students worked very hard on this event! @CvilleSchools @k12albemarle
Big thanks to Cville's Luna Labs for coming to our EMT classes today to show students their TrueClot technology, teaching them hands-on bleeding control techniques. @trueclot
Thursday, October 19th is CATEC's make-up school picture day. If you were absent on school picture day in September, please see you instructor to ensure you are on the make-up list and know what time to get your picture taken.
CATEC's Center and Joint Board Meetings are taking place today, Oct 17 at CATEC. The Center Board Meeting starts at 5 pm and the Joint Board Meeting starts at 7 pm. If you want to address the Boards, email
jamesk1@charlottesvilleschools.org by 10 am today.
CATEC Parking Passes will be available starting Oct. 16th. Confirm you can say "yes!" to the above checklist to get yours next week. See Ms. Wood in the front office if you have questions.
Thank you University of Northwestern Ohio for speaking to our Auto Service Tech students yesterday, sharing post-secondary education options to our students. @UNOH_edu @unoh_edu
We have nothing but good luck this Friday the 13th (and every other day at CATEC) when Dr. Heltz is at the helm! Happy Principal's Month to all our local principals as well as our very own Dr. Heltz! #catec #nationalprincipalsmonth
Electricity 1 students got to work on repairing the lighting system in our @UVAHeath ambulance. The vehicle is used for our EMT students to practice working in confined spaces, but our Electricity students have the opportunity to pull out its broken lighting to repair it.
October is Careers in Construction Month. We're proud of our high school Carpentry and Electricity programs. We also offer robust skilled traded courses in our Adult Education and Apprenticeship program. @CATEC_Adult @catec_adult_education Check out our offerings: www.catec.org
CATEC's Center and Joint Board Meetings are taking place on Oct 17 at CATEC. The Center Board Meeting starts at 5 pm and the Joint Board Meeting starts at 7 pm. If you want to address the Boards, email
jamesk1@charlottesvilleschools.org by 10 am on 10/17 to do so.
Nurse Assistants are practicing personal care by "shaving" each others' faces and performing hand care.
Thank you @k12albemarle @albemarlecountypublicschools Freshman Seminar students for taking tours of CATEC today. And thank you to our student tour guides, who did a wonderful job repping our school.
Students were busy today in their lab spaces. Electricity students were wiring their boxes. Carpentry students had a variety of projects going. Fire Science students worked with ladders and ropes. Auto Tech students put in their hours for the week. And Culinary students baked.
It's Throwback Thursday! We're throwing it back to the 1980s with our EMT Instructor, Mrs. Gardner. As a teenager growing up in Richmond, she rocked some teased hair and played tennis. Today you can find her at local farmer's markets selling her own coffee when not teaching.
Hot off the presses, check out the CATEC September 2023 Newsletter here: https://www.smore.com/zeda4
Yesterday our Carpentry 2 students got to participate in the the Virginia Builders Summit in Richmond. It was an awesome day for our students to meet industry professionals and learn more about what's happening in the state regarding the industry.
Today we're introducing our 2nd Profile of a CATEC Student for September. Kevin Garcia is an Auto Tech 2 student who attends CHS. He fell in love with Auto Tech when he came to CATEC in 8th grade on a tour. @CvilleSchools @cvilleschools @CHSBlackKnights @chs_blackknights