Tampa Bay Technical High School

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Tampa Bay Technical High School is a high school located in the School District of Hillsborough County, offering several different programs including the Academy of Health Professions, the Academy of Architecture, and numerous vocational/technical programs.

Tampa Bay Technical High School was established in 1969 at 6410 Orient Road Tampa, Florida 33610. The students and faculty often refer to it as "Tech" or "TBT."

The school mascot is the Titan.

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[edit] Vision Statement

Each student is given the opportunity to earn a high school diploma while acquiring technical skills to assure the foundation of future success.

[edit] Mission Statement

We, at Tampa Bay Technical High School, will use the cooperative team approach to jointly coordinate instruction and provide a nurturing environment to assure student success. We guarantee opportunities opportunities for students, faculty, parents, and community in planning, implementing, and evaluating the programs to ensure that state of the art technical and educational opportunities exist for all students. We emphasize pride, work ethic and good citizenship in school and community.

[edit] Faculty and Staff

The principal is Christopher Farkas.

[edit] Programs Offered

Tampa Bay Tech is a magnet and technical school featuring numerous programs:

[edit] Technology Programs

[edit] Magnet Programs

[edit] Academy of Health

The Health program is broken up into several fields during students' senior or junior years, depending on the specialty, such as Radiology, Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy, Veterinary Assistant, Medical Laboratory, Pharmacy, Vision Specialist, Dental Care, and LPN (nursing). The LPN program requires a great deal more study than any other program, and for this reason chooses its members much sooner than any other program. Students choose which field they desire to move into and apply to these programs. The specialty has the option of refusing any student, however most students are placed in the field they desire.

[edit] Academy of Architecture

The Academy of Architecture has classes in two separate rooms, each a fully-functioning lab. The students learn fundamental skills about the architecture field and practice computer-aided design as well as manual drafting. Students enter several contests throughout the year e.g. a local drafting and design competition at the strawberry festival, national drafting and design competitions with SkillsUSA, and the West Point Bridge Design Contest.

[edit] Ronald Brill

Ronald Brill instructs freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. His classroom is partitioned, dividing it into two sections. One section seats students at traditional school desks, while the other section is home to a CAD lab consisting of twenty student computer terminals and a network printer for student use.

[edit] David Carrier

David Carrier teaches juniors once daily, as well as seniors for two periods each day. This classroom is significantly larger, and it is therefore in this space that students create scale models. This lab also contains two dozen computers for student use. The desks in this room are designed to facilitate manual drafting, an important part of the curriculum.

[edit] School of Business

Many business certificates can be earned in fields such as Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, and Web Design.

[edit] Club Involvement

Clubs are plentiful in the school and some nationwide clubs include chapters at Tampa Bay Tech. Clubs are divided into Career, Service, Interest and Honors Clubs. Career and Service Clubs meet on the same day, and Interest and Honors Clubs meet on the same days. These list are incomplete:

[edit] Career Clubs

  • HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America)
  • FFA (Future Farmers of America)
  • FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America)
  • SkillsUSA

[edit] Service Clubs

[edit] Interest Clubs

[edit] Honors Clubs

[edit] NJROTC

Tampa Bay Tech's NJROTC is headed by Master Chief Stuthers USN(ret.) and Commander DeMartini USN(ret.). The NJROTC at Tampa Bay Tech has earned various distinctions including the Unit Achievement award three times in a row. The goal of this NJROTC unit is to achieve distinguished unit, which is awarded yearly by the area 7 manager, Commander Dirk Herbert. it is the highest award that the unit can obtain and it is revered greatly.

[edit] Class Offerings

[edit] Advanced Placement

The Advanced Placement Program, commonly known as Advanced Placement, or AP, is a United States and Canada-based program that offers high school students the opportunity to receive university credit for their work during high school, as well as a standard measure of achievement in a particular course. The following AP courses are offered at TBT:

  • AP Art History
  • AP Biology
  • AP Calculus AB
  • AP Chemistry
  • AP English Language and Composition
  • AP English Literature and Composition
  • AP Human Geography
  • AP Psychology
  • AP Spanish
  • AP Statistics
  • AP US History
  • AP World History

The following AP courses have been proposed as likely to be taught next year:

  • AP Calculus BC
  • AP Environmental Science

[edit] Dual Enrollment

The following is a partial (incomplete) list of dual enrollment courses offered at TBT. These courses award credit in both high school and Hillsborough Community College:

  • Freshman English
  • US History
  • History of Western Civilization

[edit] External links

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