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Plano for Your Future: district reports first CTE/academy expo, ongoing outreach and career fairs

Plano ISD Board of Trustees · November 5, 2025

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Summary

Plano ISD staff reported on the Oct. 22 Plano for Your Future Expo at Academy High School and related outreach. The district hosted about 200 signed-in eighth-graders and an estimated 600–700 community members, showcased CTE clusters and academy programs, and will hold a Find Your Future career fair for seventh-graders.

Dr. Kristen Edney, executive director for counseling, advanced academics and CCMR, summarized recent and planned outreach under "Plano for Your Future," a district initiative to expand awareness of CTE, academy and advanced-academics options.

Edney said the first-ever Expo on Oct. 22 at Academy High School hosted more than 200 signing eighth-grade students and an estimated 600'700 attendees. The event used all three floors of the building; CTE housed 14 cluster program tables on the third floor (examples included culinary arts, health sciences, robotics and visual arts) while academy and advanced-academics sessions ran concurrently. The Expo included student ambassadors from current programs, counselors, and a counselor corner with middle-school representation.

Edney told trustees the district produced new one-page program brochures, social-media reels, program tours and counselor visits for middle-school counselors and families. She described a Find Your Future career fair for seventh-graders that uses a pre-event career-interest inventory to assign students to two career-panel sessions and said the district is expanding program marketing to community groups and partners.

Trustees asked about attendance and scheduling; Edney said the Expo's size fit Academy High School (about 600'700 attendees estimated) and the district plans to scale the event in future years when senior-high construction is complete. She encouraged families to apply to academy programs; applications remain open and are processed as transfers and enrollments occur.