{"id":4545,"date":"2020-02-06T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2023-12-08T20:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:13:29","slug":"celebrating-career-and-technical-education-cte-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2020\/02\/06\/celebrating-career-and-technical-education-cte-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some\nof the fastest-growing occupations in Florida only require short-term degrees\nor certifications, according to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.\nIn celebration, of these Workforce Education programs, February is named Career\nand Technical Education (CTE) Month. Our CTE\nprograms are integral to SPC&#8217;s mission to ensure that our students are\nworkforce-ready and prepared to take the next steps on their academic journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPC has more than 30 two-year Associate in Science degrees\nand over 60 one-year certificates. In 2018-19, the college awarded more than\n800 workforce certifications and continues to show an upward trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All month long, SPC students will be featured on various\nblogs sharing their workforce career stories. Biomedical engineering student\nTracy Steinberg will discuss discovering a new passion after operating a\nsuccessful small business. Also, you\u2019ll read Bradley Allen\u2019s story of securing an\napprenticeship while earning an Associate in Science in Computer Programming\nand Analysis. To read more about the highlighted students,<em> <\/em><em>be sure to check out the SPC blogs at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog.spcollege.edu<\/a><em>&nbsp;as well as\nthe&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stpetecollege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SPC Facebook page<\/a><em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter account<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more about the different CTE degrees and certificates that SPC offers, please visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/future-students\/why-spc\/educating-the-workforce\" target=\"_blank\">stpe.co\/WorkforceEd.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the fastest-growing occupations in Florida only require short-term degrees or certifications, according to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. In celebration, of these Workforce Education programs, February is named Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. Our CTE programs are integral to SPC&#8217;s mission to ensure that our students are workforce-ready and prepared to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":4546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spc-inspires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}