Sault Area Career Center

Career & Technical Education

Credit, Certification and Articulation Guide

Accounting

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours, hours not necessarily together
• Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable
• Fourth year math
• Articulation: LSSU, Bay Mills, NMU, FSU & Baker, Davenport, Washtenaw Community College, Mid Michigan Community College, Kirtland Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth Organization: Business Professionals of America (BPA)

Administrative Services

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours, hours not necessarily together
• IC3, MOS-Eve areas of certification, Desktop Publishing, International Business, Entrepreneurship, Business Management, Career & Professional Development
• Fourth year math
• Visual Performing & Applied Arts
• Articulation: LSSU, NMU, Baker, Bay Mills Community College, FSU, Kirtland Community College, Mid Michigan Community College, Davenport, Washtenaw Community College, Kirtland Community College, Mid Michigan Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• National Certification Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS), IC3, CriticaI Thinking
• Youth Organization: Business Professionals of America (BPA)

Automotive Technology

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours, hours not necessarily together
• Capstone field trip to Detroit
• Fourth year math
• Articulation: Baker, FSU, University of NW Ohio, NMU, MTU, Davenport, Washtenaw Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth Organization: SKILLS USA
• Michigan Mechanical Exam

Construction Technology

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• Two hour block of classroom/shop instruction
• All phases of construction examined
• Fourth year math
• Articulation: Bay Mills Community College, Washtenaw Community College, Davenport
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth Organization: SKILLS USA, MITES

Drafting Technology

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours
• Blueprint Reading, Architectural and Mechanical, Interior Design, CAD/Board work
• CNC Programming working closely with Machine Shop and Welding
• Group Work and Team Building opportunities
• Capstone Invention Project
• Fourth year math
• Visual Performing & Applied Arts
• Articulations: FSU & Alpena Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth USA, MITES & First Robotics

Financial Marketing

• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours, not necessarily together
• One hour in conjunction with one hour of Accounting
• Operation of Retail School Store, Advertising, Sales, Purchasing, Accounting Cycle
• Fourth year math
• Articulation: LSSU, Bay Mills, NMU, FSU & Baker, Davenport, Washtenaw Community College, Mid Michigan Community College, Kirtland Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth Organization: Business Professionals of America (BPA)

Health Sciences I &II Nurse Aide Training

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• Two hours Health Sciences I & Health Sciences II
• Medical Terminology
• State Approved Nurse Aide Training Program
• Various healthcare placements in the community
• Four year math
• Articulations: LSSU, FSU, Baker Community College, Mid Michigan Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• Clinical Specialty Certificates (Health Sciences II)
• Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), American Heart Association, CPR, First Aid
• National Health Care Foundation Skills Assessment
• Youth Organization: Health Occupations, Students of America (HOSA)

Information Technology

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours, hours not necessarily together
• Photoshop, Flash, Web Design, Game Design, Introduction to Programming
• Fourth year math
• Visual Performing & Applied Arts
• Articulations: LSSU, Bay Mills, Davenport, FSU
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth Organization: Business Professionals of America (BPA)

Machining Technology

• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours
• Machine process 80%
• Classroom 20%
• Computer Numerical Control programming (CNC)
• Co-op/Job Opportunities
• Manufacturing projects involving Drafting and Welding
• Fourth year math
• Visual Performing & Applied Arts
• Articulation: Alpena Community College, FSU, Davenport, Mid Michigan Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth Organization: SKILLS USA, MITES, and First Robotics

Welding Technology

• Fourth year math
• Visual Performing & Applied Arts
• Articulation: Bay de Noc Community College, FSU, & NMU, Alpena Community College
• Career Center Certificate
• Youth Organization: SKILLS USA, MITES, and First Robotics
• American Welding Society Certification
• Paraprofessional Services
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• One or two hours, hours not necessarily together
• GTAW, GMAW, SMAW welding
• Plasma, acetylene &carbon arc cutting
• Blueprint Reading

Work-Based Learning

• Career Center Certificate
• Employability Skills
• Safety training
• Co-op Paid (Jr. & Sr., 16 years of age)
• Less Than Class Size-Unpaid, (J r. or Sr. status) Teacher Cadet
• Work-Based Learning—Unpaid
• Education Development Plan
• Work Experience (after school work program)
• Release time from school available