All courses are 1/2 credit / half year.
Sequence of Study
9th grade courses
- Architectural Drawing *
- Career and Financial Management
- Computer Applications / High School
- Design and Drawing for Production
- Introduction to Programming
10th-12th grade courses
- Architectural Drawing *
- Career and Financial Management
- Computer Applications / High School
- Computer Aided Design *
- Construction Systems *
- Design and Drawing for Production
- Energy Systems *
- Introduction to Programming
- Production Systems *
- Programming with Block and Code *
- Transportation Systems *
- Transportation Systems II *
- Video Game Design
- Web Page Design I
- Web Page Design II
* Prerequisites listed in the course descriptions.
Course descriptions
Architectural Drawing
Grades: 9-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production
This course will encourage the solution of technical problems through the use of unconventional designs. Students will use many methods to find solutions to problems throughout the course.
Career and Financial Management
Grades: 9 – 12 Exam: final exam
This course is designed to prepare students with the skills necessary to make them competitive in the 21st century job market. This class is the required introductory course for Career and Technical Education programs and the introductory course for the five-unit sequence in technology. Students will explore our economic system as a consumer, a worker, and an entrepreneur; and explore careers through the employment phase, successful attainment of the job, and achieving job satisfaction. Personal money management is surveyed through the examination of payroll checks, taxes, budgets, investments, and savings. Word processing, spreadsheet, and power point software is integrated throughout the curriculum.
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Grades: 10-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production and Architectural Drawing strongly encouraged to ensure student success.
This course provides an introduction to the various input and output devices and software that configure computer aided design systems.
Computer Applications – High School
Grades: 9-12 Exam: Final exam
This course will have a large focus on the different Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ACCESS). Students will incorporate the tools and commands from these programs into a variety of projects. Basic computer fundamentals such as the computer system, its components and their purpose and internet basics and terminology will be covered. Students will create a Google drive for cloud storage, learn to use Google docs and use “Blackboard” as an online learning component. Students will learn to improve their keyboarding technique to become more proficient at keyboarding.
Computer Applications – College Credit
Grades: 11-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Fee required for college credit and a college textbook.
This course provides a more in depth knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite of software applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ACCESS. Upon completion of this course, students will be prepared to test for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCASO certification), and industry recognized certification. Students will be using “Blackboard” as an online learning tool. Students have the opportunity to earn three college credits transferrable to SUNY colleges.
Construction Systems
Grades: 10-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production strongly encouraged to ensure student success.
This course will provide a basic overview of the different systems in construction. Units covered through this course will include: construction tools, wood as a building material, structural systems, wall and roof framing, sheathing, fasteners, roofing, and mechanicals.
Design & Drawing for Production
Grades: 9-12 Exam: Final exam
This course emphasizes creative problem solving, designing and technical drawing used to develop solutions to various design or product problems. The proposed solutions are researched, sketched, refined, and rendered as technical drawings. This course can be used for a ½ credit of the required art course.
Energy Systems
Grades: 10-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production
This is an introductory level course with a focus on energy and power technology. Emphasis will be on energy conscious design and construction of various devices that can be used in collecting and converting different forms of energy. Areas of energy studied will include: solar, wind, geothermal, mechanical, renewable and inexhaustible.
Introduction to Programming
Grades: 9-12 Exam: Final exam
This course will teach students some of the basics of computer science and programming. Students will participate in a number of hands-on group activities related to computer science. Students will learn the basics of “block” coding using “Scratch” and other block coding programs to create a number of fun projects including animating art, dance videos, and a social media pictogram. Students will have the opportunity to work with different robots to “program” them to complete exercises based on availability. Students will also touch on some popular programming languages such as HTML and PYTHON and learn some of the basics needed for writing the programming code for these languages.
Programming with Block and Code
Grades: 11-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Computer Applications
Students will learn some important concepts relating to computer science and programming. Students will be using Scratch and block coding to learn the importance of algorithms in programming, and will use block coding to create some fun projects such as a dance video, a cooperative video game, an extreme sports game, and an animation. Students will learn the “programming code” for writing HTML/CSS creating their own web page and will learn the basics for two other popular programming languages, Python and Java Script. Students may also have the opportunity to spend some time programming different robots based on availability. This is a great program for those who plan to continue their education in any type of computer related field such as computer science, programming, web/game design, or if you are interested in acquiring basic programming skills to be successful in today’s technical world.
Production Systems
Grades: 10-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production
This course studies the systems of manufacturing and construction: their resources, processes, products, and quality assurance and their impact on society, the economy, the environment, and manufacturing.
Transportation Systems
Grades: 10-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production
This course is an overview of aerospace, land, and marine transportation systems with a focus on power mechanics, hydraulics, aerodynamics and small engines.
Transportation Systems II
Grades: 11-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production and Transportation Systems
This course explores more advanced levels of land transportation systems from several perspectives. Students should have prior experience with internal combustion engine components, processes and tools.
Video Game Design Foundations
Grades: 11 – 12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production
This course will study the major aspects of game design including character and world development, game playing, game genres, and theories and principles of game design. Students will gain hands-on experience in simple game development. Concepts and practices will be explored to help students decide it they are interested in pursuing careers in game programming.
Web Page Design I
Grades: 10-12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Design & Drawing for Production
This course will prepare students to create, critique, and maintain academic and commercial Web pages. The course develops an understanding of HTML.
Web Page Design II
Grades: 11–12 Exam: Final exam
Prerequisite: Web Page Design I
This course will expose students to the entire construction process of web design from planning, to creating the site and adding final touches using Adobe CS5 (Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash and Dreamweaver). Students will create a storyboard or blueprint for a website. Students will learn about website navigation, style sheets, graphic creation, digital image optimization, security and server hosting. Students will work in teams with specific tasks assigned to individual team members through the website creation and management.