THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, February 3, 1995 TAG: 9502010128
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 16 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY CORRINE T. HARDISON, CORRESPONDENT
LENGTH: Short : 40 lines
Students at Chesapeake's Center for Science and Technology are busy preparing demonstrations and displays for presentation at the center's annual open house, ``Welcome to Your Future,'' to be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 16.
The center, located at 1617 Cedar Road, between Dominion Boulevard and the Chesapeake campus of Tidewater Community College, offers career training to high school students who attend the center part-time while continuing studies at their home school.
Patricia Tompkins, assistant principal, said the center prepares students to enter the workplace, whether they choose to begin their careers immediately upon graduation, to enter apprenticeship programs, to attend community colleges or to pursue other post-secondary education.
Students learn job skills in specialized classes, such as a collision repair technology or television communications.
Located behind the center, across from a 4,000-square-foot greenhouse managed by students of landscape design and management, are the studios of WFOS-FM, Virginia's first high school FM radio station, where students learn the theory and practice of radio broadcasting.
Richie Babb, telecommunications coordinator for the school, said the annual open house will include displays for each program offered at the center, including advanced computer applications, air conditioning and refrigeration, cosmetology, engineering, the space camp program, television production, landscape and design, and a health screening and display from the nursing program. There will also be door prizes and a collection of antique cars and race cars. Broadcast students will be on hand to demonstrate a live radio broadcast. by CNB