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career pathways & ste(a)m

Orange Unified School District Career Technical Education courses are available for high school
students at their home high school and the Career Education Center. There are a variety of

opportunities available to prepare students for 21st century careers and college.

rescent Elementary’s
CCrazy Stackers
Robotics Team 15A
won first place for both
Individual Robotic Skills
and Programming,
setting the elementary
world record in each
category. They also
took home the Overall
Excellence Award.

C rescent Crazy
Stackers Team 15B
won the Robotic Design
Award for Best in State.

lso advancing to the
AVEX Robotics 2015
World Championship
was a group of eight 7th
grade students from El
Rancho, the Neobots,
who were on Crescent’s
World Champion
robotics teams last year.

he STEM labs at Cerro Villa Middle School, Portola Middle School, and Yorba Academy of the he Villa Park High School STEM lab, named Foundations in Technology & Engineering,
TArts Middle Schools, opened in 2015, deliver a contemporary curriculum of technological Tprovides 20 days of high-energy multimedia instruction with four students participating
content and scientific inquiry through the balanced use of multimedia, video and hands- in each Integrated Instructional Unit (IIU). All IIUs are closed-captioned with a heavy
on activities. The middle school STEM labs utilize the Paxton ActionLABS program and offer emphasis on the inter-relationship of science, math, engineering and technology. The IIUs
students the following instructional stations: Alternative Energy; Computer Aided Drafting are aligned to the Common Career Technical Core and support the Next Generation Science
(CAD); Computer Graphics and Animation; Digital Manufacturing; Digital Music; Electricity; Standards implementation. As part of the program, the following instructional stations
Energy & Power; Flight Technology; Forensic Science; Laser Technology; Materials Processing; are offered: Architectural Design, Construction Technology, Environmental Technology,
Mechanisms; Pneumatics; Research & Development; Robotics; and Structural Engineering. Alternative Energy, Robotics, Manufacturing, Communications, and Material Science.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, & Math