Career Center

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WS/FCS Career Center

Address
1615 Miller Street Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27103, United States
Website
http://www.wscareercenter.com
Information
School board	Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Principal	Dennis Moser
School type	Alternate High School
Grades	11-12
Language	English
Enrollment	~2000 Non-Permanent (2006)

The Career Center is a high school of sorts, located in Winston-Salem, NC. It offers an extension to the regular high school program. Classes offered include Advanced Placement courses, career and technical education (CTE) courses, as well as English and other classes too small to be held at the regular high schools in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools program, such as Japanese, and Chinese. It also offers extended day classes, which are classes held after school that allow students to "make-up" a failed class in order to graduate. It leases its building to Gardner-Webb Technical University and Forsyth Technical Community College at night.

1 Student Schedule
2 Career-related classes
3 AP Classes
4 Future
5 References
6 External Links

[edit] Student Schedule

Students come from the 10 "main" high schools in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools system. Most students typically spend about half a day at the Career Center, either in the morning or afternoon, taking one or more Advanced Placement or a career-related class. Several honors and regular level classes are also offered. Bus transportation is provided at certain times to and from home schools, and some students drive. Students spend the rest of the day at their "home" school. Some students have all of their classes at the Career Center; schedules vary from student to student.

[edit] Career-related classes

The career center offers classes related to specific fields. The classes, usually about 1.5 hours (two periods) long, are designed to help students gain a better understanding in that specific field, and better prepares them for it. These classes are taught by professionals in that specific industry. They include

Agricultural Work Development
Allied Health Sciences
Auto Collision Repair
Automotive Technology
Auto Service Technology
Aviation Technology
Carpentry
Mandarin Chinese Language (Mandarin Chinese 1 is a single-period class)
CISCO Networking (single-period class)
Commercial Art
Computer Information Systems
Cosmetology
Culinary Arts
Early Childhood Education
Electricity
Electronics
Landscape/Construction Maintenance
Photography
Radio Broadcasting
TV Broadcasting

[edit] AP Classes

These classes are more difficult, considering they are on a college level. Students can receive college credit for these classes only if they take the AP exam at the end of the year.

[edit] Future

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There has been much speculation about the future of the Career Center. It is widely believed that Forsyth Technical Community College, which is located adjacent to the building, will buy it sometime between 2008-2010. If that were to occur, a new administrative building for the school system would be built downtown. ^[1] It is still unclear as to whether or not a new Career Center would be built, but many are in support of a new building which would have modern equipment. There is a possibility that only Career/ Technical Education classes may not be held at the new building, as more and more of them are starting to be offered at each respective high school in the county.