Student Resources

Please fill out the CCCTC Parking Permit Application and receive a valid parking sticker before the first day you drive. Students need to bring their driver’s license, car registration, $10, and a completed signed form to the Career and Tech's main office. CTC. Student’s schedule will be verified before the permit is issued.

NOTE: Carroll County Public Schools provides transportation to and from the Career and Tech Center from the student's home school (WHS excluded). For some programs (e.g. the Academy of Health) with community-based experiences parents are require to provide transportation.

CCPS Resources

County policies and guidelines followed by all Carroll County Schools, as well as other resources such as:

Services offered and guidelines followed for all CCPS students

Certificate Ceremony

At the end of each program, students will be recognized at a Certificate Ceremony held at the CCCTC. Students will be recognized for accomplishments such as certifications, scholarships, and college credits. Recognition for a student's grade, attendance and success in the program is also recognized through the Award of Excellence and the Certificate of Achievement.

Criteria for earning CCCTC Award of Excellence (Revised: Sept 2021)

Students will be awarded the Award of Excellence if they also meet the following conditions:

Criteria for earning CCCTC Certificate of Achievement (Revised: Sept 2021)

In addition to earning credits towards the high school diploma, students attending the Carroll County Career & Technology Center have the opportunity to earn a Certificate of Achievement. This certificate will be awarded at the annual Awards/Certificate Program, which is held at the end of the school year for seniors. Each student to be awarded a Certificate of Achievement from the Carroll County Career & Technology Center must achieve the following conditions:

**If there is an exceptional circumstance that should be considered when applying the award criteria, please notify the Principal of CCCTC in writing at least one week prior to the award ceremony.

Professional Standards

1. Our students are professional

Carroll County Career and Tech Center strives to give students an authentic, real-life experience. Our classrooms look like the shop, business, hospital, restaurant, and salon that students will work in once they graduate from CCCTC. Further, their teachers have worked in the chosen field and know what it takes to be successful. Students are asked to achieve industry standards in safety, planning, preparing, and producing. BUT that is not all that sets our students apart after they graduate. CCCTC also stresses professional standards. Every program stresses professionalism and every student's professionalism is evaluated.

Areas of Focus Are Unity, Safety, Productivity, and Reliability. (Click on the links below to learn more.)

2. Our programs are professional

The following organization certify that our programs meet professional standards.

Program

State/National Affiliation

Industry or Assessment Option

Academy of Health Professions

Maryland Board of Nursing

National Healthcare Association

Auto Service Technology

ASE Student Certification – Developed by ASE (Auto Service Excellence) in partnership with Automotive Youth Educational Systems (AYES), National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF), and Skills USA

Biomedical
Sciences

Project Lead The Way

Carpentry

National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER)

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC)

Cisco Networking Academy

Collision Repair Technology

ASE Student Certification – Developed by ASE (Auto Service Excellence) in partnership with Automotive Youth Educational Systems (AYES), National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF), and Skills USA

Computer
Science

College Board – Advanced Placement

Project Lead the Way

Cosmetology

Maryland Board of Cosmetology

Culinary Arts

American Culinary Federation (ACF)

Drafting

AutoCAD Certification available

Electrical Construction

National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER)

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC)

Skills USA

Membership

More than 300,000 student and instructors join SkillsUSA annually, organized into more than 17,000 sections and 54 state and territorial associations. SkillsUSA has served more than 9.9 million members.

Mission

SkillsUSA's mission is to help its members become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. SkillsUSA is an applied method of instruction for preparing America’s high performance workers in public career and technical programs. It provides quality education experiences for students in leadership, teamwork, citizenship and character development. It builds and reinforces self-confidence, work attitudes and communications skills. It emphasizes total quality at work, high ethical standards, superior work skills, life-long education, and pride in the dignity of work. SkillsUSA also promotes understanding of the free-enterprise system and involvement in community service.

Programs

SkillsUSA programs include local, state and national competitions in which students demonstrate occupational and leadership skills. At the annual national-level SkillsUSA Championships, over 5,000 students compete in 96 occupational and leadership skill areas.SkillsUSA programs also help to establish industry standards for job skill training in the lab and classroom, and promote community service. SkillsUSA is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and is cited as a successful model of employer-driven youth development training program” by the U.S. Department of Labor