Crowder Offers Summer Technical School to Area 6-8 Graders

Neosho, MO – The Crowder College Technical Education Center (CTEC) is offering a career exploration camp as a summer option for students attending one of our area schools.

Students grades 6-8 attending Diamond, East Newton, McDonald County, Neosho, and Seneca are on the Neosho campus for summer school. The student will be able to choose from the following programs: Automotive, Alternative Energy, Construction, Computer, and Health Sciences. Each week the student will explore one of their selected programs with hands-on and classroom teaching. Math and Language Arts will be included in the classroom teaching to assist with summer school needs.

Each class has a project that the students’ study and complete weekly: Automotive – (car racers); Alternative Energy – solar ovens; Construction – building bridges and towers; Computers – programming games; and Health Science – studying the digestive system and making their own systems.

“Students are deciding career paths at an earlier age, so we thought this would provide younger ones an opportunity to see a variety of choices,” stated David Webber, Director of Career & Technical Education.

The area sending schools will bus students to Crowder and back to their respective school district location during summer school hours to make this opportunity available.

Last Updated on June 17, 2019 by