High Tech Academy: preparing secondary students for high tech careers

High Tech Academy represents a partnership between Henrico County Public Schools and Infineon Technologies Richmond to recruit, educate, and train secondary students in the pursuit of technological career paths. In addition to a rigorous academic education in advanced subjects, including physics, calculus and chemistry, the program offers hands-on industrial training utilizing sophisticated state of the art equipment. Academic subjects and industrial applications are integrated through project-based learning. Students are organized into yearlong teams that work together on projects that employ the training equipment. Program objectives go beyond traditional technical education, teaching the soft-skills of the modern workplace. Students must learn to work together and gain first hand experience of working on team projects with hard deadlines. Finally, through on-site orientations, summer internships, and robotics competitions partnered with Infineon Technologies, High Tech Academy creates an environment similar to that of the modern workplace