Prepa Tec Campus Santa Catarina

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Campus Santa Catarina


Established	1996
Type	Private
Director	Rafael Ábrego Hinojosa
Faculty	300
Students	3000
Undergraduates	6000
Location	Monterrey, México
Website	Prepa Tec Campus Santa Catarina

Campus Santa Catarina of ITESM is a high school for grades 10-12 inaugurated in 1996, it is the most popular elite Private High School choices among San Pedro's teenagers. It was created mainly to serve the San Pedro area. It is located in the district of Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico.

1 History
- 1.1 1996
- 1.2 2006
2 Curriculum
3 Extracurricular activities
4 Student Council
5 Campus
6 Transportation
7 Special programs
8 Cost
9 Other information
10 External Links

[edit] History

[edit] 1996

Campus Santa Catarina was inaugurated in 1996, mainly to cover the San Pedro area. It quickly became the most popular elite high school in Mexico

[edit] 2006

Campus Santa Catarina celebrates its 10th anniversary born in 1996

[edit] Curriculum

In 10th grade the students in the Bicultural Program take the following courses (some classes are only given for one semester, others are year-long sequences): Earth Science, Fundamentals of Reasoning, Fundamentals of Computer Science, History of Civilization, English, Language and Expression, math, Introduction to Multimedia, and Problem Solving.

Eleventh graders in the same program take Life Science, Creativity, Art History, Mexican History, English, Verbal Communication, Human Relations, Citizen Ethics, Literary Analysis, Thinking Processes and Analytical Geometry.

Seniors take Physical Science, Economy and State, Career Orientation, Philosophy, Interactive English, Classical Literature, Differential Calculus, Science in the Twentieth Century, Entrepenurial Development, International Panorama,Socio-economic Structures of Mexico, Communicating in English, and Integral Calculus.

The school also offers the internationally recognized and prestigious IB Diploma Programme to the most outstanding students (See 'Special Programs' below).

[edit] Extracurricular activities

American football, soccer, basketball and volleyball are all offered as intramural sports. Interscholastic sports include softball, soccer and tennis. Clubs include Reading, Comics, Computer, Math, International Panoramic, Entrepreneurs and the Web Master team. Students are also welcome to join the school newspaper, festivals, concerts and musical plays that are part of the activities at the school.

[edit] Student Council

The student Council of the Prepa Tec Santa Catarina is an organization that is elected every year to represent the whole high school. The current student council president is Daniela Jasso Garza.

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Preceded by (Garza)	President of the Student Council January 1, 2006–January 1, 2007	Succeeded by Rubén Marcos Bours

[edit] Campus

The school library has about 25,000 volumes. The campus also has two gymnasiums as well as facilities for football, softball, tennis and basketball. Guards are on duty and round the clock security is provided.

The facilities include:

59 classrooms for 35 students each, equipped to use the most modern technology
Library
Evaluation Center
Computer classrooms
Cafeteria
Gymnasium with basketball and volleyball courts
Gymnasium with exercise equipment
Artificial Turf Field
2 multi-purpose courts for basketball, volleyball and indoor soccer
2 tennis courts
4 handball courts

[edit] Transportation

Buses are not mandatory and serve most areas in which students live. There may be different bus routes depending on student demand. Students are allowed to take their cars to school. There are specific areas for student parking. In order for students and/or teachers access the school's parking lot, they need a certain kind of Identification.

[edit] Special programs

The school offers the prestigious IB Diploma Programme created by the IBO (International Baccalaureate Organization), to outstanding students with an excellent demonstrated academic ability.

[edit] Cost

At Prepa Tec students can choose whether or not to follow the Bilingual program or Bicultural program, the school also offers the International Baccalaureate (IB). The Bilingual program costs $16,960 U.S. dollars, and the Bicultural and IB Programs programs cost $21,200 U.S. dollars.

[edit] Other information

Prepa Tec also has an International Program which enables foreign students to learn more about Mexico and Monterrey. Intensive courses in Spanish, Mexican culture and regular high school courses are offered by experts, and tutoring is available.