BTHS Design Academy
Students participate in a rigorous and relevant program of study which focuses on one of three strands: Interior Design, Drafting, or Fashion Design. Students will explore their creative talents in decor and fashion design, as well as, gain valuable carpentry skills. Post-secondary opportunities are available through the Florida State College of Jacksonville and University of North Florida.
Mission
The Design Academy strives to provide a relevant curriculum combined with industry exposure via business partners thereby allowing students to gain knowledge, confidence, relationships, and sense of community.
Program of Study
Academy News
This morning, the BTHS Ambassadors talked with 8th graders from Freedom Crossing Academy. The Ambassadors shared all of their favorite things about their program! The 8th graders were very attentive!
There are 40 students involved in ACE Mentoing this year! Today with the kickoff wheremultiple business partners came to introduce the RFP process and how to work towards the compeition in the spring.
Bartram Trail Ambassadors spoke to 364 Swiss Point Middle School students to explain the programs of interest and inform the 8th graders what they had to look forward to in high school next school year. Many shared thier favorite experiences over the past 3-4 years in the academy or AFROTC! Their messages were well recieved
Two Scad graduates came to Bartram Trail to present their EV car design and explain to all CTE academy students about 3D printing, software design, color theory, interior design, industrial design and fine arts. All students were engaged and participated as they were very interested.
Every Year Linda Cunningham, a local fashion designer, comes to our classroom to give the students a challenge where students have to design a dress using unconventional material. This year's challenge was cupcake liners along with unused award ribbons!
BTHS Senior Fashion Design Students competed in creating a window display in the 9th grade center and were judged by 3 highly recognizable Bartram Bears. Students had to explain their backdrops, wardrobe choice on the mannequin and props used to create a show stopper window display.
Marisa Lynn Studios donated swatch books and wallpaper samples to the Interior Design Academy! The students and teacher are so excited to enhance thier projects and mood boards with these new samples!
Senior Students competed in creating a window display in the 9th grade center and were judged by 3 highly recognizable Bartram Bears. Students had to explain their backdrops, wardrobe choice on the mannequin and props used to create a show stopper window display.
The BTHS Shoreline Team WON both the Best Presentation and Best Overall awards today!!! So proud of these students who really shined today!
Students were tasked with designing and making a dress from coffee filters and here are the winners! Great work!
This month in Interior Design Techniques Level 3 we are learning how to draw interiors in perspective view. For our first summative the class chose a room of their choice and putting the drawing into a perspective viewpoint from the way we took a picture of the image. Before hand we worked on HelloArtsy activities
BTHS Fashion Academy Sophomores designed a dress to reflect the pillars of Character Counts into the design. Students used donated tulle to create their design. Displayed in the 9th grade center at Bartram.
We know our Career Academy teachers are great, but we love it when others agree with us. Joy Dorst, Architectural Design teacher in the Design Academy is the 2018 Outstanding Teacher of the Year at Bartram Trail High School!
174 students from the Engineering and STEM-related Career Academies attended the NE FL Construction and Career Day on February 13, 2018 at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center. Over 100 businesses participated in this three day event to expose students from the northeastern FL counties to careers in the construction and transportation industries. The booths were very
Juniors in the Drafting strand of the Design Academy at Bartram Trail High School are working on a “Mixed Use Request for Proposa”l to redesign the Jacksonville Landing on the St. Johns River. On a recent field trip, the student teams reviewed possible options and developed initial drawings of their proposed design. When the project
Bruce Watts is a sophomore in the Drafting strand of the Design Academy at Bartram Trail High School. He wrote and sang a rap song recently at an Academy breakfast to help teach other students shortcut keystrokes for use when using AutoCAD to make architectural drawings. It was a big hit and very helpful to
About 100 students from the Construction and Engineering-related Career Academies in St. Johns School District attended the Northeast Florida Construction and Career Day held on March 28, 2017 at the Equestrian Center in Jacksonville. Five other school districts also participated. Sixty-five businesses set-up interactive programs for the students to learn more about the variety of
Fashion Academy Juniors participated in the “Love your Mother” Eco Fashion Show on Saturday, 9/24/16, at the Volkswagen Dealership on US1 in St. Augustine. The students made their outfits out of all recyclable material. All funds goes to charity and the event raised more than $50,000.
Contact
- Chris Force, Career Specialist
(904) 547-8380
Location
7399 Longleaf Pine Parkway
St. Johns, FL 32259
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