Academies

Civics Career Academies

The Career Pathways for Public Service Initiative presents Civics Career Academies

The Career Pathways for Public Service Initiative is part of the greater Civic Literacy Excellence Initiative launched in July 2021. The goal of the initiative is to create Civics Career Academies in local high schools to create a pathway for students to work in the public sector.

Students who participate in the Academies will have the opportunity to earn an industry certification in Project Management and earn credit towards their A.S. degree at Polk State College. The four courses in the Academies are:

Public Service Leadership – Learn how leadership is practiced and experienced in the public sector.
Public Service Careers and Communication – Discover the broad range of careers in the public service and nonprofit sectors. The course will align with the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative to incorporate the communication and debate skills needed to advocate within the government and non-profit organizations.
Public Service Experiential Learning and Project Management – Complete an industry certification through Certiport called PMI Project Management Ready™.
Public Service Research – Address public sector issues by completing a research project that will culminate in a substantive research paper and presentation of findings to a stakeholder audience.

Academy of Health & Environmental Sciences

Agriscience Academy

Students engage in challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Agriculture industry, while practicing technical skill proficiency and competency-based applied to learn that contributes to the academic knowledge, problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Natural Resources, Technical Ag Operations and Animal Science career clusters. Students learn from hands-on activities, work in the classroom, and also through the largest student-run organization in the world, the FFA.

Medical (Health Sciences) Academy

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Health Science career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of Health Science career cluster.

Academy for Applied Technologies

Automotive Garage

Students acquire the knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Transportation, Distribution and Logistics career cluster; understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the Automotive industry; planning, management, finance, technical and product skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues and health, safety, and environmental issues.

Engineering & Technology

This program offers tracks in both Engineering and Technology. Students will study the principles and applications of technology and applied engineering and its effect upon our lives and the choosing of an occupation. It focuses on transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the science and mathematics knowledge, technological tools, machines, instruments, materials, processes and systems related to engineering.

Robotics Academy

The purpose of this program is to provide students with a foundation of knowledge and technically oriented experiences in the study of the principles and applications of robotics engineering and its effect upon our lives and the choosing of an occupation.