Snapping a portrait of classmates in a sprawling photography studio. Designing a three-bedroom home from a classroom computer. Taking a patient’s vitals in a replica ambulance parked at the end of a hall.
Those are a few assignments that Minneapolis students have embraced at the new Career and Technical Education Center at North High School, which opened this fall as a hub for engineering, media arts, computer science and emergency medicine programming.
Similar centers are planned for Edison and Roosevelt high schools to centralize programming in construction and welding, business and finance, agriculture, law and public safety, and automotive repair. Juniors and seniors from across the city can take a school bus to the sites the culmination of a district plan that began in 2019 to elevate such courses and make them more accessible.
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