Non-Traditional Employment Options are the Focus of Conference for Middle School Girls MICHIGAN CITY, IN — Eighth-grade girls from middle schools across La Porte County will gather at the A. K. Smith Career Center in Michigan City next week for the...
Eleven EMT and four Health Careers Academy students from the A. K. Smith Career Center in Michigan City attended the Health Occupations Student Association State Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, April 16-18. They attended workshops and took...
A La Porte County Career and Technical Education (CTE) student and an area guidance counselor have been honored with Indiana’s highest award for CTE, the “Award for Excellence.” Westville High School senior Jacob Parkman was selected as one of...
Janice Chamberlin, a teacher in the LaPorte County Adult Education Program at the A. K. Smith Center, has released a new book entitled: Teaching the High School Equivalency Test: Practical Advice for Instructors of the GED, TASC, or HiSet Tests. The...
Representatives from the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio (IKO) Regional Council of Carpenters visited the A. K. Smith Career Center in Michigan City on Thursday, May 25, to congratulate the first LaPorte County Career and Technical Education students to...
We will be holding our annual Future Careers Expo on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Once again we are asking our business partners to assist us by providing all of our students with the experience of “Mock Employment Interviews”. This has become an...
Students in the Modern Machine Technology program at the A. K. Smith Career Center in Michigan City will be using a new Computer Numerical Control (CNC) mill, thanks to a $10,000 donation from the Morgan Family Foundation. The CNC system, a Syil...
Governor Mike Pence and the Indiana Regional Works Councils today announced the 2015 Innovative Career and Technical Education (CTE) Grant recipients, which included a $223,809 grant to the NIPSCO Energy Academy in Michigan City – a partnership of...
Students and staff at the A. K. Smith Area Career Center in Michigan City will join others across the nation during the month of February to celebrate national Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. This year’s theme is Recognizing Classroom...
Indiana Governor Mike Pence will join representatives from NIPSCO and the LaPorte County Career and Technical Education Program on October 22 for a ceremonial ribbon cutting celebrating the opening of the new Energy Academy at the A. K. Smith Career...