Students tell meeting STC dual-enrollment helped build job skills, portfolios and early employment

Several students and alumni told a recorded meeting that the South Tech Center program known in the transcript as STC gave them hands-on training, helped them build portfolios for college and careers, and led directly to job offers.

"When I was in middle school, a representative from STC came. They put on a presentation explaining all the options for dual enrollment. To me, it was a no brainer," Commenter 1 said. "If you could come to a school half day and come have fun and learn a trade, why wouldn't you?"

Commenters described dual enrollment as a half-day arrangement in which students spend part of the day at their high school and the other half at STC. "Dual enrollment is…