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Clover rebrands Applied Technology Center as Center for Career Innovation, adds real-estate pathway
Summary
Principal Carrie Bolin said the center will be renamed the Center for Career Innovation, expand to serve two high schools, add a real-estate completer pathway and duplicate low-equipment programs at a second campus; Bolin provided year-over-year program and credentialing numbers.
Carrie Bolin, principal of the district's Applied Technology Center, told the board the center will be rebranded as the Center for Career Innovation and will expand services to a second high school campus as part of a restructuring and program-growth plan.
Bolin said the new name and a motto, "Learning Networks," came from staff input and votes. The center's colors will combine Clover High School's navy blue with Lake Wylie High School's light blue and a Kelly green accent; a final logo is still being finalized.
Bolin outlined program growth since she returned to the role in February 2018. For the current year, she said the center will report 419 program completers, more than 1,900 industry certifications earned with a 96.6 percent pass rate, 13 dual-enrollment courses, 108 internships and 511 students participating in student organizations. She said those increases occurred with only one additional full-time-equivalent staff member.
The center will add a real-estate completer pathway that combines fundamentals and advanced real-estate courses with marketing or entrepreneurship; Bolin said graduates of that pathway can sit for a real-estate license exam upon graduation. Other recent additions include computer programming, a teacher-assistant certification tied to the district's early childhood program, and a utility-line-worker program run in partnership with York School District 1.
As part of a staffing change, Bolin said a long-time staff member, Miss Darnes, is retiring and the district will convert that position into an assistant director role. Wayne Williams will move to lead the engineering program and assume duties that include work-based learning and some districtwide program management.
Bolin said programs that require high-cost, specialized equipment (for example, diesel mechanics or building construction) are unlikely to be duplicated fully at the second campus. Instead, students at the new high school will be taught lower-level or first-year courses locally and would travel to the Center for Career Innovation for upper-level work.
The board asked questions and praised the center's growth; no formal vote was required for the rebranding or program descriptions presented that evening.
