The Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) Department of Career and Technical Education (CTE) offers a wide range of quality career and technical programs that prepare students for graduation, post secondary education, and careers.
Students and educators throughout the school district will celebrate National CTE Month® during February 2021.
Use the resource packet below to plan for CTE Month with suggested activities and valuable information for students, parents, teachers and counselors.
Download CTE Infographic Flyers
CTE Quick Links
CTE Websites
- Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)
- Florida Association for Career and Technical Education (FACTE)
- U.S. Department of Education/Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE)
- Florida Department of Education - Career and Adult Education
College Information
Career Information
- CareerSource South Florida
- America’s Career OneStop
- Careers.org
- Florida Dept. of Economic Opportunity
- Florida NEXT Magazine
- Florida Ready to Work
STEM
The Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) and NASA HUNCH are hosting, for the third year, the student video challenge, celebrating Career and Technical Education (CTE) and project-based learning programs.
Video Challenge Theme: "Advancing Space Exploration through Manufacturing"
Feature a manufacturing project or possible future scenario in one or more of the following areas that could advance our understanding of living and working in space.
- Precision manufacturing
- Additive manufacturing, including 3D printing
- Biofabrication, involving tissue cell production
- Soft goods and sewn products, such as clothing, cargo transfer backs and space suit manufacturing
- Food production, including plant science
- Clean water production and recycling
- Robotics in manufacturing
- Habitat production
- Energy production, including solar power
- Transportation and rocket production
- Satellite production for communications,weather, space exploration and more
- Video production to document space exploration for research and verification
- Pharmaceutical and medical equipment production
The contest is open to middle school (6th-8th grades), high school and postsecondary students in any CTE or project-based (hands-on) class or program, or NASA HUNCH school. Students may enter as individuals or as a team.
Deadline to submit your video to ACTE is on Monday, April 1, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Contest is not sponsored by Miami-Dade CTE
About CTE Month® and NASA HUNCH
ACTE, empowering educators to deliver high-quality CTE programs that ensure students are positioned for career success, is host to the annual CTE Month awareness campaign held each February. HUNCH stands for High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware and is looking to extend its message of inspiring students through project-based learning to CTE students across the nation. NASA HUNCH high schools offer students the opportunity to launch their careers through the participation in the design and fabrication of real world valued products for NASA.
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