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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.

CAT Brandywine Practical Nursing Program turns 50

Coatesville, PA - The Practical Nursing program officially turns 50 on November 1, 2007. The Center for Arts & Technology Practical Nursing Program began in 1957 at the Chester County Hospital, back then, it was affiliated with the West Chester State Teachers College.

Technical College High School principal named

West Grove, PA - Although Pennsylvania’s first dual-enrollment high school, the Chester County Technical College High School, won’t open until September 2008, it’s principal, Mr. Seth Schram, is already hard at work. The Chester County Intermediate Unit Board of Directors approved Mr. Schram’s hiring at its monthly meeting on June 19, 2007.

CAT Pickering inducts three new members into Student Hall of Fame

The Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Pickering Campus recently inducted four distinguished alumni into the school’s hall of fame. They are Brian Gallagher, class of 1974; Larry Smola, class of 1980; and Paul Fischer Benne, class of 1988.

CAT Brandywine students kick-off weeklong series of anti-drunk driving events, February 12-15

Coatesville, PA - Shana Bivins, Liz Golden and Nicole Brugger have a message for their peers at the Center for Arts & Technology Brandywine Campus: Don’t Drink and Drive. It’s not a new message, but for these three students it’s a message worth repeating – again and again and again. It’s so important that they have organized a weeklong series of events at their school in hopes that their message will save lives.

CAT Brandywine students raise money for Cerebral Palsy

Coatesville, Pa - Ralph Showalter knows firsthand the difficulties that face a person with Cerebral Palsy. He has lived with it his entire life. Not content to let the condition dictate the quality of his life, Showalter has started a campaign to raise awareness and money for people living with Cerebral Palsy. He has started with the people he knows (and who know him) best – his classmates at the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Brandywine Campus.

Over 250 students from southeastern PA to compete in skills contest

Phoenixville, PA – Over 250 career and technical students from 21 schools in southeastern Pennsylvania will compete at the Skills USA District Competition on February 23 at the Center for Arts & Technology (CAT) Pickering Campus in Phoenixville and the Brandywine Campus in Coatesville.

Printing company taps into CAT student design talent

This year, when Tursack Incorporated, a Consolidated Graphics Company, distributes its annual calendar, it will not only be distributing a handy way to keep track of the days ahead but also the creative design work of the high school students featured on its pages.

Mr. Fecik elected president of AALAS

Animal science teacher Stephen Fecik has a new title, Mr. President. Fecik, the animal science and technology teacher at the Center for Arts & Technology Pickering Campus, has been elected President of the Delaware Valley branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS).

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