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Summer at the CAT's means learning, exploring and fun!

Phoenixville - Usually during the summer, most high schools are as empty as, well, a school in July. However, this was not the case at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus. The halls were filled with energetic teens and pre-teens excited about being in school during the summer. That’s right excited - thanks to an educational-based camp known as the Summer Career Academies (SCA) operated by the Chester County Intermediate Unit.

CAT Brandywine grad helps build Technical College High School

Jennersville, PA - It’s always a nice circumstance when life comes full circle, especially when it pertains to someone giving back to the school or community which helped shape them as a person. This is precisely the case with Mike Graham, a former student at the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus who is now helping to build the new Technical College High School in Jennersville.

Supplee and Smith elected state officers

CAT Brandywine Business Academy students Will Supplee and Frankemena Smith have been elected to the 2008-09 Pennsylvania State DECA officer team.

Child Care students bring home the "gold"

Congratulations to Crystal Garner and Katelyn Hallman.

Zealor advances to national competition

HOSA students provide night of respite to parents of children with Autism

Coatesville, Pa. - Students in the Health Occupations program at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus are giving up one Saturday night a month to provide respite to parents of children with autism. According to Health Occupations instructor Donna Dietrich, the students are participating in Parents' Night Out organized by the Chester County Autism Alliance as their community service project for their school’s chapter of the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA). To date students have volunteered 150 hours to the program.

CAT students advance to national competition

Downingtown, PA – The Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) is proud to announce that three of its students were named state champions at the Pennsylvania Skills USA Competition. Timothy Rickards, Troy Cronce and Nate Ewing placed first in their events. In addition, Justin Gillander and William Martin placed third.

CAT Strategic Plan Draft

CAT Brandywine students return victorious from competition

Seven students from the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus clipped, soldered, bandaged, wired, talked and motored their way to a first place finish at the Skills USA Pennsylvania regional competition. Another 15 students placed second; and six came in third place.

Going green brings home the gold!

Phoenixville, PA – Going green earned students at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus a first place finish in the Pennsylvania State DECA Competition. Going green was the theme of the year-long public relations campaign initiated by students in the school’s DECA chapter, an international association of high school and college students studying marketing, management, entrepreneurship, finance, hospitality, sales and service.

Pickering students receive early acceptance to college

The Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus is proud to announce the following students have received early acceptance to colleges and universities as listed below:

Student Spotlight: Andy Plum - Wired for success!

Phoenixville - Andy Plum, a senior in the electrical occupations/telecommunications program at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus, is wired for success. A member of the National Vocational Technical Honor Society, Plum excels both in his academic and technical studies. He has proven himself in local, regional and state competitions and placed first in the state in the 2007 Pennsylvania Skills USA Competition in the residential wiring event.

Introducing the Keystone Shining Star award program

West Chester, PA—Keystone Federal Credit Union and the Chester County Intermediate Unit are proud to announce the new “Shining Star” award program to recognize students who have shown a noticeable improvement in academic performance, extra-curricular involvement, and attendance throughout the school year.

22 automotive service technology students have been accepted to DCCC

Coatesville, PA – Twenty-two students enrolled in the Automotive Service Technology program at Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus have been accepted to Delaware County Community College (DCCC). The 22 high school juniors and seniors will begin earning credit towards their associate’s degree in applied science immediately – that’s right immediately. The students are dually enrolled at the Center for Arts & Technology Brandywine Campus and DCCC.

Kennett students take best of show

Coatesville, PA – The Center for Arts & Technology Brandywine Campus is proud to announce the winners of its 23rd Annual Holiday Flower Show. Students from Kennett High School swept the Best of Show category. Yamaira Romero from Kennett High School placed first in the Best of Show. The horticulture major shared best of show honors with classmates Kathleen Flores and Nancy Medina Valdez also from Kennett High School. Flores and Valdez took second and third place, respectively.

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