Tech Prep Program

Tech Prep, funded by Federal and State grants, combines two years of high school and two years of college with business and industry partnerships to prepare students both technically and academically for today's highly competitive workplace. The Community College System has authorized Tech Prep for all campuses. Currently, thirteen high schools comprise the Capital Consortium with over 850 students participating in the program in Allied Health, Engineering Technologies, Early Childhood Education, Law Enforcement, Business, and Finance. Students are selected on the basis of criteria developed and articulated by a consortium of the thirteen participating high schools and published in an articulation agreement available in the Tech Prep office.

A student can earn up to seventeen CCC credits by completing designated secondary school courses at her/his local high school. Course content equivalencies are determined by a formal articulation procedure. On-site learning is provided by business and industry partners such as Pratt and Whitney, Newington Veterans' Hospital, John Dempsey and Hartford Hospitals, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, Becker's Jewelry and Travelers Insurance Company.

Participating schools include Bulkeley, Weaver, Hartford Public, A. I. Prince RVT (Hartford), E. C. Goodwin RVT (New Britain), Howell Cheney RVT (Manchester), Manchester High School, Conard and Hall (West Hartford), East Hartford High, Newington and Bloomfield High Schools.

For additional information, contact the Program Director of Tech Prep at (860) 906-5014, Room 1005 on the tenth floor.