Miami Valley Career Technology Center strives to help workforce development and career training; preparing students in five counties including Montgomery, Warren, Preble, Miami and Darke.
At the school, students are able to attend their junior and senior years of high school. Programs are available in areas such as: agriculture, arts and communication, building and construction, business and information technology, health, human resources, industrial technology and mechanical technologies.
“MVCTC is a great head start in any field of work you’re interested in,” said Mallory Landis, a 2011 graduate from the commercial photography program.
However not all students go into the same career path they chose as their MVCTC program.
“MVCTC made me realize that [digital design] wasn’t what I wanted to do,” said Miranda Reitz, a Criminal Justice and Psychology major at Sinclair.
While attending MVCTC, students are eligible for a tech-prep scholarship through Sinclair. In order to receive the tech-prep scholarship, the student must have a 2.25 GPA and graduate from their specified program at MVCTC.
The Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium, which is a contract between Sinclair and 26 local area high schools, makes this scholarship possible, said Wendell Meyers, Sinclair Tech Prep program manager.
“[The scholarship] acts as an incentive for students to get good grades in high school,” said Terry Riley, interim director of tech prep services. “If the students put forth effort in school there is a kind of reward.”
Riley said that the scholarship has expanded. Instead of sticking to the specific program you were in at MVCTC, you are able to go to Sinclair majoring in something related to the program you were in. If the student was in an arts and communication program at MVCTC, they can go into a communication major at Sinclair that may differ from what they took in high school, but still having the same basis.
“We know that high school students go in with a set of thoughts as to what they want and that it might change over the time they graduate,” said Riley. “We try to provide avenues for students to be able to really use the scholarship.”
For information on what degrees and certificates the scholarship covers, requirements or any other questions regarding tech-prep, call 512-5146 or visit Building 6 Room 131. For more information on MVCTC call 937-837-7781 or visit mvctc.com.