What is Career Dual Enrollment?

Career Dual Enrollment provides students with the academic knowledge and technical skills necessary to start a successful career. Career Dual Enrollment prepares students for college, career, and life while accelerating educational opportunities through rigorous coursework. Career Dual Enrollment students will save money with free tuition and textbooks as well as save time toward their adult programs requiring additional training. Students will remain enrolled at their applicable schools while accessing career certificate programs at Fred K. Marchman Technical College (FKMTC), Pinellas Technical College (PTC), or Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Programs:

• Applied Cybersecurity: Prepares students with the knowledge and skills in computer and network security, security vulnerabilities, attack mechanisms and techniques, intrusion detection and prevention, cryptographic systems, system hardening, risk identification, incidence response, penetration testing, key management, access control, and recovery. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation
• Aviation and Aeronautics: Prepares students for the construction, testing and maintenance of aircraft and space vehicles. Location: Sunlake High School
• Commercial Art Technology: Prepares students with content including basic art skills, lettering skills, layouts and illustration skills and camera-ready paste-up skills. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College
• Computer Systems and Information Technology: Prepares students to acquire skills and technical knowledge for entry-level employment as computer technicians, or in related fields. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College
• Diesel Maintenance Technician: This program provides high school students with a dual enrollment model to prepare students with skills of inspection, repairing, and overhauling vehicles with diesel engines. Location: Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation
• Digital Cinema Production: Prepares students with aspects of digital video activities, including scripts, lighting, camera operation, field/studio production and video editing. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College
• Electricity: Prepares students for employment or advanced training in the electrical construction industry. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College, Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation
• Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning/Refrigeration (HVAC/R): Prepares students for employment or advanced training in the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration industry. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College
• Marine Services Technologies: Prepares students for employment in the marine service repair trade. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College
• Patient Care Technician: Prepares students for employment as advanced cross-trained nursing assistants in acute and long-term care health facilities. Locations: Gulf High School, James W. Mitchell High School, Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation, Pasco High School, Sunlake High School, Wiregrass Ranch High School, Zephyrhills High School
• Professional Culinary Arts and Hospitality: Prepares students for further education and careers such as food preparation workers, cooks, and food service managers. Location: Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College
• Welding Technology: Prepares students with the basics of welding along with other essential skills such as welding terminology, welding design and safety, the weldability of metals and quality control. Location: Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation, Wendell Krinn Technical High School, Marchman Technical College

How do I apply for Career Dual Enrollment?

All students interested in attending a Career Certificate Dual Enrollment Program must apply to the applicable school location utilizing the Pasco Pathways School Choice Application. 
Please note, when applying to Fred K. Marchman Technical College (FKMTC), if accepted students will take core academic courses at their zoned school and provide their own transportation to FKMTC for career dual enrollment courses only.

Specific criteria will be outlined in the Pasco Pathways School Choice application for each program. Preferences established in the Controlled Open Enrollment Plan will be followed when the number of eligible applicants exceeds the number of seats open. Students residing in the district will be given preference followed by those outside the district. Applicants are randomized and seats are filled by the number of open opportunities designated during the seat-setting process. Students not placed during the lottery process will be placed on a randomized waitlist. Transportation is not provided.

 

Prior to applying for school choice, you must have a Parent Portal account set up in our student information system (myStudent). Please visit Enrollment Services for additional information.

Sign up to receive more info via email and get a friendly reminder once the Pasco Pathways school choice application window opens later this school year.

 

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