Technology Center of DuPage to host open house Jan. 19

The Technology Center of DuPage in Addison is hosting an open house celebrating career tech education on Thursday, Jan. 19.

It will be 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the center, 301 S. Swift Road.

For information, visit www.tcdupage.org/openhouse, or contact Anthony Gliffe at (630) 691-7601 or anthonyg@tcdupage.org.

The Technology Center of DuPage offers DuPage County area high school juniors and seniors 20 career and technical education programs as part of their high school curriculum.

Its mission is to provide an education environment that supports and encourages individual learning styles, develops occupational skills and professionalism, promotes academic growth, and assists students in discovering their potential.

In addition to high school credit, Technology Center of DuPage students may concurrently earn dual credit (college credit earned while in high school), by enrolling at no cost with the college during the designated timeframe.

Offered in morning and afternoon sessions five days a week, each Technology Center program allows students to learn at their own pace through a hands-on, individualized learning plan based on goal achievement.

Through their respective programs, students use field-specific mathematics, science reasoning, language arts, and technology in real world applications. The programs include training in the career pathway clusters:

• Architecture and Construction;

• Arts, A-V Technology and Communications;

• Education & Training;

• Health Science;

• Hospitality & Tourism;

• Human Services;

• Information Technology;

• Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security;

• Manufacturing;

• Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

• Transportation and Logistics

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