CTE Virtual Showcase

SPS CTE Virtual Showcase

Browse the work our incredible CTE teachers and staff are doing to connect students to careers!

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April 2025 CTE Showcase
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April 2025 CTE Showcase

Over forty K-8 school teachers, digital learning specialists, and administrators gathered at John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence to celebrate and learn more about elementary and middle school robotics and computer science lessons! Digital Learning Specialist and Robotics Lead, Mr. Martin organized the event, inviting Superintendent Dr. Jones and CTE Director Mr. Day to speak. Congratulations to Mr. Martin and to all of our teachers for leading these wonderful projects!

Students program of a wizard wearing blue and switching to orange

teachers administrators viewing student work

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Big Brothers Big Sisters in STEM

Big Brothers Big Sisters led a STEM career awareness event for with mentorship for Seattle Public Schools middle school students. From the website: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound and Amazon partnered to create a workplace mentoring program called Bigs In Tech. Bigs In Tech connects volunteers with local 6th-8th graders to help them learn about science and math skills, reinforce social emotional skills, and build solid 1 on 1 relationships.

students and volunteers around a table with a view of city skyline in the background

Sound Careers in Health Care

Students from health and medical programs in five high schools attended the annual Sound Careers in Health Care. At the fair, students participated in hands-on learning in the health field, visited employer tables and learned more about the path to working in health and medicine. Many thanks to our teachers who organized and brought students to the event!

Chief Sealth Financial Literacy Night

Ms.Filley-Bentler, Career Connected Learning Coordinator at Chief Sealth, hosted a financial literacy night for students and families. Working with United Way and Express Credit Union, families received free tax advising and information, information on financing college, and more!

neon green Sign reading "Welcome free Tax help"

Future Health Care Workers Hit Spokane

Future health care workers from Cleveland, Ballard, Roosevelt, and Nathan Hale went to Spokane for the statewide HOSA competition. HOSA is a career and technical student organization for students who are interested in healthcare. Thank you to our teachers for organizing, and congratulations to all of our students! Cleveland, Ballard, and Roosevelt had a combined 19 qualifiers for national competition at the time of posting!

group of students posing in front of neutral background

Pre-Apprentices Visit Ironworkers Local 86

Pre-Apprenticeship students from Ingraham and Interagency high schools climbed, welded, and shot hoops during lunch break at Local 86. Students in the pre-apprenticeship program explore 19 trades during their second semester of class, before applying to apprenticeship. Apprenticeship offers students a living wage job and free college tuition ( a 2-year degree over the course of 4-years).

Interested in the pre-apprenticeship program? Learn more by filling out an interest form. Current 11th grade students are now enrolling for Fall 2025.

Student climbing a steel bar during field trip to Ironworkers local 86

Students gather around welding workshop during trip to ironworkers local 86

900 Franklin Students Browse Summer Opportunities!

Around 900 students learned about different ways to learn and earn this summer at the annual summer opportunity fair, organized by Career Connected Learning Coordinator, Mr. Ruiz. 20+ vendors came to share opportunities with students, ranging from Girls Rock Math and SYEP to the Port of Seattle. Thank you to Mr. Ruiz for organizing and thank you to all of our partners for attending.

Students visiting tables for opportunity fair at Franklin High School

Vendor speaking with student about internship opportunities

Lincoln Environmental Science and biology Students Featured on Port Blog

Ms. Fox at Lincoln High School partnered with the Port of Seattle to explore the Duwamish River to visit areas of restoration and areas left untouched. Students learned that careers in engineering, law, and community service can all be offered through the port. Read more about the experience and see more pictures on the Port of Seattle Blog!

Students stand at Port in Duwamish where they are conducting environmental studies

A Trip to Seattle Culinary Academy

Roosevelt Culinary teacher Mr. DiMeo brought his students to Seattle Culinary Academy housed in Seattle Central College for an amazing 4 course lunch and tour of the program. Culinary instructors gave speeches about their careers and 5^th quarter students described the dishes.

Students standing in line at culinary academy cafeteria

Ballard HS Celebrates CTE Month

Students in Mr. Martin’s Ballard Career Connections class discussed 21st Century Skills for CTE Month. Students identified skills most important to them, including social and cross-cultural skills as well as leadership and accountability. Great to see students thinking ahead to what they need to succeed post-graduation.

Slide with list of 21st Centry skills and students pointing to list to identify skills that they are most interested in cultivating

Cleveland HS Student Wins Game Programming Competition

Mr. Davis’ Cleveland Computer Science Principles class developed a winning program in the semiannual CMU Academy competition. One of his student’s programs won in the unrestricted submissions category—unrestricted because of the coding languages and complexity that he used to develop the game The game can be played here! Congratulations to Cleveland!

Screenshot from video game featuring a grey cube and a blue sphere with "R to Restart" written in the upper left

Franklin, Lincoln, and Roosevelt Environmental Science Classes at Mt. Rainier

A huge group of students from Franklin, Lincoln, and Roosevelt traveled to Mt. Rainier for a day of learning and conservation work. Thank you to Ms. Fox, Ms. Speidell, and Ms. Wilson for organizing this incredible trip!

Nathan Hale Students Stop the Bleed, HOSA Members at Roosevelt Earn CPR Certification

Nathan Hale Health and Medical students in Dr. Umdor-Singh’s class had Stop the Bleed training during Anatomy and Physiology classes. Training was provided by nurses who volunteer at the Office of Emergency Department. Meanwhile at Roosevelt, future healthcare professionals (HOSA members) earned CPR certification. These crucial trainings can save lives. This crucial training can save lives. We are grateful to Dr. U-S and Ms. Coulthard at Roosevelt for organizing.

Students holding CPR dummies after earning certification for health care club

Students practicing tourniquet placement on a fake arm

Students practice stopping wounds with nurses

Ingraham Culinary Students Show their Work!

Screenshot from padlet showing food that students cooked.Four images from left to right: cream puffs, cream puffs, pizza, pasta

Pasta, pizza, smoothies, crepes, and more! Ingraham students in Ms. Motter’s class have been busy making delicious creations this year. Follow the Ingraham Culinary Students scrumptious creations! Our culinary and hospitality teachers teach students food safety, with all students getting the opportunity to earn their Washington State Food Worker Card in Culinary Arts and Nutrition and Wellness classes. Students learn the ins and outs of creating delicious food, nutrition, and management.

Sugiyama Parent Education Lab Achieves Level 4

Congratulations to the Parent Education Lab (PEL) at Alan T. Sugiyama for earning a quality rating of a Level 4 Center with Early Achievers! This rating is a remarkable achievement and highlights the quality of parent education available to SPS students who are parents. Congratulations to Ms. Visscher on this accomplishment! Learn more about the PEL.

Copy of certificate showing that ATS parent education lab has achieved level 4 facility status. Text reads" An Early Achievers Level 4 Facility. This facility has met all requirements to attain a Quality Level 4. Awarded to: Soutlake Parent Child Education Center."

DECA Students in Area Competition!

Business and Marketing students from Garfield, Roosevelt, Lincoln, and West Seattle competed in DECA, a career and technical student organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs with a career interest in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. Across all three schools, hundreds of students attended area competition. Among these, 144 are going to state competition and over 10 students will proceed to International Career Development Conference for outstanding achievements in their competition areas. Roosevelt’s Green and Gold Exchange earned Gold Certification for the 2024-2025 school year– their marketing and school based enterprises were approved for the highest rating.

group of students holding medals at competition

Health and Medical Students Visit Seattle Children’s

Nathan Hale students visited Seattle Children’s Discovery lab to learn all about ELISA and how ELISA is used to detect the presence of antibodies in simulated patient samples using a color changing result. Special focus was given to the research and innovation side of work at Seattle Children’s. Thank you Dr. Umdor-Singh for organizing this incredible field trip!

Students wearing white lab coats in health and medical research lab

Studnets posing in front of white wall with Science Discover Lab sign on it.

Chickenados and Not to Scale in Robotics Competition

Ingraham Robotics went on an emotional rollercoaster at the Capek Semi Finals.

The Chickenados (pictured below) finished first in the qualification matches and they picked Not to Scale as their alliance partner (two Ingraham teams uniting!). Not to Scale finished 10th out of 24 teams.

Not to Scale won the Innovate Award (given for bringing great ideas from concept to reality–they totally deserve it!) Which means they advanced to the Washington State championship, on February 1, in Seattle.

Chickenados had an outstanding year, and for many of them it was their first season. They had a relatively simple and fast robot that didn’t break, had well-thought-out code and a great rooky drive team!

Read more about the upcoming state championship, which is for the top 24 out of 181 teams in Washington.

Students in front of homemade sign reading "Chickenados Robotics"

Roosevelt HS DECA State Qualifications

153 Roosevelt High School students competed in DECA (business and marketing student organization) in January 2025! 98 students qualified for state competition and 9 students qualified in first place. Huge congratulations to Mr. McGinn and Ms. Carter and all of the Roosevelt students who competed!

9 photos of students sitting and standing at DECA competition

Group of students wearing suits in front of modern building

Elementary School Robotics Teams Gear Up for December Competition

Students sitting on carpet and coding together for FLL team

3 students gathered around teacher for robotics competition coding instruction

Over 20 elementary schools are exploring careers and STEM by competing in the First Lego League Robotics competition this December! Pictured are students at Lafayette and Arbor Heights. Students are preparing by building sets and coding robots ahead of the December competition.

Just like in the modern workplace, students divide into groups of researchers, project managers, coders, and building/materials managers to get the job done. Early exposure to coding, design-thinking, and working as a team is essential to connecting our students to careers of the future! Read more about FLL Robotics here or watch the video below!

Roosevelt HOSA Back to Work!

Career and Technical Education offers students leadership opportunities in our 9 pathways. At Roosevelt, HOSA helps connect students interested in health care with trends in the labor market of the future. Pictured below are students at leadership events last year and this’s fall leadership conference along with advisor, Ms. Coulthard! Find an opportunity at your school by checking out the CTE Student Leadership Opportunity page.

Students at leadership conference for health care careers standing in a line.

group of students sitting on bleachers at leadership conference

DECA Western Region Leadership Conference

On Friday November 8, Roosevelt high school DECA sent their 7 student leadership team to engage in networking, leadership training, and competition at the DECA Western Region Leadership Conference. Two students were recognized for outstanding achievement in the Marketing role-play event. The next step for Roosevelt DECA is the Area 2 competition on January 9^th followed by the Virtual Business Challenge January 14-24^th. It’s never too early to start exploring careers– get involved at your school today!

7 students in formal suits in front of wooden background at leadership conference for business group

Inventor of Bluetooth Technology Visits Chief Sealth

Ms. Martin and Ms. Dotrong from Chief Sealth HS hosted Jaap Haartsen, inventor of Bluetooth wireless technology in their second period classes. Mr. Haartsen described the technical and business processes of getting the Bluetooth patent in place, describing sharing spectrums via wifi, frequency hopping, and existing technologies that he synthesized to develop this innovative technology. We are very grateful to INVENT.ORG for helping coordinate this visit– what a treat for our staff and students!

Students sitting in library listening to inventor speak about bluetooth technology

Franklin HS Unified Robotics Compete in Renton

sign reading special olumpics washington unified champion schools

Image of high school students wearing green shirts competing in a robotics compeition

A good time was had by all at the Renton Liberty High School on Sunday November 17th at the Unified Robotics competition. The Franklin HS team placed 5th out of 10 in their Division, briefly holding second place. Their robot race-car performed reliably and even won the “innovation” award! Thank you to the volunteers, students, families, and administrators that made this happen!

Classroom to Career Day at Chief Sealth

Student walking in front of set up table in front of large orange banner with words "classroom to career day" written on it.

Poster from Classroom to career day event on notebook style paper. Text from top to bottom: image of graduation cap, classroom to career day, in black writing with red background" "where, in the library, time" 11AM-1:45PM" date of event and description is "come to the fair to learn about programs and different colleges! We will also have special speakers coming to your class"

Ms. Temple and Ms. Filley-Bentler from Chief Sealth held the second annual Classroom to Career Day at Chief Sealth International High School last week. Students enjoyed a BIPOC Speaker Spotlight presentation during which students heard about career and college journeys, followed by a huge career fair in the library featuring college, career, and internship program opportunities! How did this impact students? Below is some feedback:

“I tried out some of the tools and equipment they brought, and it gave me a chance to experience that trade and see my future in it.”
“It reinforced that health care is the path I want to pursue, and there are many options within that field to explore.

ACE Mentorship Kick-Off Draws a Crowd at Cleveland HS

Hundreds of ACE mentees , including 139 students from Ballard, Chief Sealth, Cleveland, Franklin, Garfield, Ingraham, Lincoln, Middle College, Nathan Hale, West Seattle, and Roosevelt gathered at Cleveland High School this week to meet their mentors and kick off a year of learning in architecture, construction, and engineering. Stay tuned for updates on SPS students participating in ACE this year, and check out the ACE website to learn more!

Ballard Videography Students Create PSAs

Wash your hands! Protect your hearing! Promoting local non-profit organizations! Ballard high school videography students created public service announcements both general, and for local non-profits. Completing work-based learning activities while learning technical skills and having fun are hallmarks of career and technical learning. See below stills from Mr. Bradford’s class! Check back for a live link to view student work.

Student eating with hands - Wash your hands (client based PSA)

Nordic Heritage Museum photo of someone dressed in historical protective clothing

Roosevelt Brings HMT/BioMed Equipment Speaker

Career Connected Learning Coordinator at Roosevelt, Mr. Rho brought in a speaker to share information on health management technology and biomed equipment technology. Learn more about pathways in health and medicine by visiting our pathways pages!

speaker to share information on health management technology and biomed equipment technology

Nova Curriculum Night Brings Colleges, Programs to Students

Nova’s Career Connected Learning Coordinator brough college and career readiness partners to Nova’s curriculum night, welcoming Seattle Colleges tables, Seattle University, as well as Career and Technical Education and Pre-Apprenticeship Pathways. Students shared their careers of interest and talked with colleges and programs about different pathways to their futures!

Students wrote and illustrated job interests on a piece of paper in various colors and crayon. Text reads: "what do you want to do (job-wise?) and students answered and illustrated the following careers: neurologist, early-education, dancing, actor, costume design, college admissions, barista, marine biology, dancer, writer, environmental education, question mark

Tools and pre-apprenticeship flyers at career fair

Tables lining hallway of high school with colleges representatives

Environmental Science Class Works with Port of Seattle Mentors

Environmental Science students from West Seattle High School got their hands dirty, working with Port of Seattle mentors to survey and design sustainable green spaces. Thank you so much to CTE Teacher Ms. Murdock for organizing this hands-on learning opportunity for students, connecting them directly with industry while exploring the science of the environment.