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career and technical education creates an opportunity for students to develop skills and obtain hands-on experience to prepare for
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in-demand careers and higher education
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working with state-of-the-art equipment students apply theory and practice to a wide range of real-life assignments
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and projects in the center's workshops and laboratories a variety of diverse programs from a wide range of industries
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are offered this program allows you to take what you like doing outside of school and get high school credit for it
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so if you like to cook at home you're allowed to take your interest and your passion and you're able to do that for school credit so to be able to
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do what you love is really incredible
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because it's not the typical classroom setting you're learning in a different way but it's prepping us to do well in college so
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i feel very prepared
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between what i've learned within just a few months here and like a whole next year i'm it's really helped me like see what i'm going to do for a career and what
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colleges i'm going to look for and it's and it really does help you like make your mind of what type of career you want to have for this class you don't have to want to
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go into automotive when you're older you don't have to be a mechanic you can just come here and learn whatever you want and then use that when you grow up the teachers are just so amazing like
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you can really talk to them and they're always there for whatever you need here we can do hands-on stuff and i feel
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like we're doing a lot more of the things that we want to be doing to kind of focus on what we want to do in the future it breaks my day up and i
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don't have that much classes at my high school and you get to meet new people and you all just come together with like the same interest like you said
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to do the same thing you all like to do it's your responsibility so it's teaching you responsibility and how to maintain the machines and
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just be a good uh big good worker it's a good experience so you know what you're doing when you you leave and get
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out into the industry with p-tech i'm laser-focused on what i want in a career and what i
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want in my future
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yeah i love it yes i i want to be here every day if i could