WCS - College & Career Academy
December 2022
Sixth Edition
Preparing ALL students for their life after high school.
Career Awareness Continues At WHS
Post-Secondary Readiness
INVESTORS WANTED
Diversity Is Our Strength
Congratulations
Junior High Updates
Construction Club Coming to WJHS - Spring 2023
Indiana is projected to have over 140,000 construction job openings by 2026. Indiana Construction Roundtable Foundation is partnering with WCS to introduce junior high student to the construction field with the creation of a Construction Club. Curriculum is being provided and Mr. Johnston (WHS Industrial Technology Teacher) will serve as sponsor. The goal of the Construction Club will be to create interest in high school programs that lead to careers in the construction industry. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Mr. Johnston.
ROI Career Coaching Fellows
Elementary Updates
Students were given a design challenge to create a holder for spray cans that will prevent the cans from turning over or rolling around inside a truck bed toolbox. They created designs using tinkercad.com, a 3D design program, with precise measurements. Students then created cardboard prototypes to those measurements to test their designs. The best design will be 3D printed and used by Sodexo in their truck bed toolbox.
“Teaching” the Dobot to stack blocks
Delivering gifts with Spheros
Using Dobot to draw
As part of a Kids At Hope school, one of our destinations is College & Career. We have been talking about our future careers and what colleges we may attend in the future to achieve our goals. We believe that all students are capable of success, no exceptions!
#IAMWashington #HatchetStrong
The Third Grade teachers at Washington Intermediate and Washington Veale Elementary collected donations from our community to gift EVERY third grade student in our corporation with a college sweatshirt for Christmas!
Real Estate Writing
A Diversified Career Ready Pool of Talent that's ALSO Bilingual
This program will be open to WCS students entering Kindergarten in the fall of 2023. Students will receive approximately half of their instruction in English, while the other half of instruction will be in Spanish. Parents who wish to voluntarily enroll their children in this program will need to maintain a commitment through Upper Elementary School, as each year the program will expand.
There is a Parent Meeting scheduled for Monday, January 30, 2023, at 6:00 pm at Washington Primary. Districts similar to WCS have experienced such a high demand they’ve had to resort to an application and selection process. We expect the interest at Washington Community Schools to be high as well. More information about the application process will be available at the Parent Meeting.
To Learn More...
WHS: College & Career Academy
Email: speterson@wcs.k12.in.us
Website: https://www.washingtoncommunityschools.org/1/Content2/college-and-career-academy
Location: 608 East Walnut Street, Washington, IN, USA
Phone: (812) 254-3860
Twitter: @washhs