Other Career Education News

On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, a new group of St. Johns Technical High School (SJTHS) students began their internship at Carlisle Interconnect Technologies.  Students get off 1/2 a day each Wednesday during the school year to have a paid internship at Carlisle IT.  This year, 15 students are having this experience.  The goal of the […]

The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM NERR) has always been a committed supporter of St. Johns County Schools. St. Johns Tech and Creekside High School have been recipients of the GTM NERR’s generous support of the Academy programs throughout the years. When Hurricane Irma hit, both schools jumped into action and offered

Some of our high schools offer additional Career and Technical Education classes beyond the Career Academies. One such program is the Turf Grass Program at Bartram Trail High School taught by Ronnie Griffin. Recently an in-depth article was featured in the Fall 2017 issue of “On the Turf”, the official publication of the FL Chapters

In Summer 2017, the Career Academies had 112 high school students who interned for various businesses related to their academy focus. Citi offered a paid one-week robotics programming internship to 12 girls from our school district along with girls from several other school districts. They also offered six-week paid internships to 16 girls from our

This summer was extremely productive in the Career and Technical Education Department. This summer, 112 Career Academy Students rising seniors completed summer internships related to their academy focus. We also supported 11 non-Career Academy internships with our business partners. We would like to acknowledge and THANK the teachers who came in over the summer to

Article taken from the Florida Times Union, 4-19-17 Congratulations to both Creekside and Bartram Trail on outstanding performances in the Bridge to the Future Competition held 4-18-17 at University of North Florida! Bridges to the Future – The Florida Times-Union, 2017-04-19 Bridges to the Future Thomas Zammatro, 18, (right) and the Bartram Trail team explain

More than 2,000 students from all over the state competed in the annual DECA state competition, March 2-4.  Bartram Trail DECA had a record performance qualifying 19 students to the international competition which will be held in Anaheim next month.  Some events required the students to write a 30 page paper on a particular topic and

Morgan Hunter, an Engineering teacher at Nease High School, is a 2017 Fellow for Fund for Teachers.  She will travel to Spain, Greece and Italy in Summer 2017 to study the evolution of structural components and architectural styles of design and the history of civil engineering and architectural achievements in those countries.  This then will