Triad received nearly $to expand academic pathways in allied health, precision agriculture, design and development, to start a pathway in information technology, and to create a modern lecture space for students.
A new career technical education wing on the school’s campus added an information technology classroom, allied health classroom and a lecture space for classroom and community use.
“With the grant we have built the addition and purchased everything needed for the classrooms,” said Superintendent Vickie Maruniak, explaining as an example for allied health they needed hospital beds and manikins, and with information technology they needed computers and TVs.
A grand opening of the new career technical education wing will be held from 1 to 7 p.m. April 17.
Students will give tours from 1 to 6 p.m., followed by an official ribbon cutting with the board of education.
Maruniak said they have two years to spend all of the funds and that everything has went well with the new addition.
Springfield-Clark CTC received $606,000 to help create opportunities within the Information Technologies pathway to equip students graduating in the Software Programming Technologies Program and Cybersecurity Program, and to purchase updated student computers and monitors, additional projectors, Microsoft Azure for SQL Server, curriculum and professional development for instructors.
Grant funding will allow CTC to collaborate with industry partners TechSmart for curriculum and platform, INTERalliance for registered apprenticeship program framework, and Standex and Forward Edge both providing remote internship opportunities.
Superintendent Michelle Patrick previously said the overall goal was to be part of a state-wide Ohio Codes workforce development initiative that develops both students’ software development skills in the classroom and includes work-based learning, internship experiences and industry-authentic work, and implements a curriculum designed around an integrated software development and internship experience within the IT pathway.
CTC will offer this pathway at the main campus and as a satellite program at two high schools in the affiliate districts, Greenon and Northwestern. They will also offer a seventh and eighth-grade software development/coding feeder pathway at each of the middle/junior high schools in those two districts.
A district official said they are still in the process of working through all aspects of the grant and getting the satellite locations setup.
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