Career and Technical Student Organization: SkillsUSA and Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)

Students in the Digital Arts & Design program of study will develop skills and knowledge in graphic design, computer art and illustration, photography, digital imaging, interactive design, and animation. Using a state of the art iMac lab complete with Adobe Creative Cloud software, drawing tablets, digital cameras, studio lighting. Students will create real world projects while developing their professional portfolio. After their first year course where students are introduced to many fields of Digital Arts & Design, students may begin to concentrate in one area including design, illustration, photography, animation, or choose a more broad combination of these areas of study. 

Students may receive Fine Arts credit for DAD I upon completion of three courses in Digital Arts & Design.
Students may receive college credit if they submit their final portfolio to AP.
 
Year 1: DAD I 
Year 2: DAD II 
Year 3: DAD III Portfolio or DAD III Animation or Applied Arts Practicum
Year 4: DAD III Portfolio or DAD III Animation or Applied Arts Practicum 
DAD III is offered for two credits over two years.

Early Childhood Education Careers is designed to prepare students for careers as an early childhood teacher. Course content covers the components of curriculum planning, student learning, screening and assessing, and many other skills related to teaching younger populations. Upon completion of this program of study, students will have had the opportunity to work alongside educators in an internship experience, compile artifacts for a professional portfolio, and graduate prepared for further training at the postsecondary level.

Courses:

• Early Childhood Educational Careers I
  
• Early Childhood Educational Careers II
  
• Early Childhood Educational Careers III

Career and Technical Student Organization: Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)

Do you like science or math? Do you like figuring out how things work? then engineering is the pathway for you! The Summit Engineering Program offers a wide array of engineering experiences to help you get to the next step. 

Our Classes:

Year 1 - Introduction to Engineering (IED)
Year 2 - Principles of Engineering (POE)
Year 3 - Aerospace Engineering (AE) or Civil Engineering (CEA)
Year 4 - Engineering Design and Development (EDD)

Requirements:

• IED
  • Students have taken Algebra I and passed.
• POE
  • Students have passed IED with an 81% or higher.
  • Students have passed Algebra 1.
  • Students must be enrolled in or have completed and passed Chemistry.
  • Students must have a teacher referral.
• CEA
  • Students have passed IED with an 81% or higher.
  • Students have passed POE with a 75% or higher.
  • Student must have a teacher referral.
• AE
  • Students have passed IED with an 81% or higher.
  • Students have passed POE with an 81% or higher.
  • Students are currently enrolled in or have completed and passed Physics.
  • Students must have a teacher referral.
• EDD
  • Students have completed a conference with instructor.
  • Students have passed IED with an 81% or higher.
  • Students have passed POE with an 81% or higher.
  • Students have passed AE or CEA with an 81% or higher.
  • Students must have a teacher referral.

Sport and Human Performance Pathway

1. Health Science
2. Honors CTE Anatomy and Physiology
3. Honors Rehabilitation Career
4. Optional Senior Clinical Internship

Sport and Human Performance is designed to prepare students to pursue careers in kinesiology and exercise physiology services. Upon completion, proficient students will be able to apply concepts of anatomy and physiology, physics, chemistry, bioenergetics, and kinesiology to specific exercise science contexts. Through these connections, students will understand the importance that exercise, nutrition, and rehabilitation play in athletes or patients with debilitating or acute metabolic, orthopedic, neurological, psychological, and cardiovascular disorders. In addition, students have the opportunity to incorporate communication, goal setting, and information collection skills in their course work in preparation for future success in the workplace. Students will have the option to participate in a clinical internship at the end of the program.

Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO): HOSA - Future Health Professionals

The IT Pathway offers two tracks: Coding and Cybersecurity.

The Coding Track gives students the opportunity to learn to write programs using languages currently in high demand like Python and Java.

The Cybersecurity Track will look at ways to defend systems from cyber attack. It will explore the network security issues that affect modern day information systems. Students will build defenses to secure these systems.

Coding Courses:

• Coding I or AP Computer Science Principles
• Coding II 
• AP Computer Science Principles or AP Computer Science A

Cybersecurity Courses:

• Coding I or AP Computer Science Principles
• Cybersecurity I or AP Computer Science Principles
• Cybersecurity II or AP Computer Science Principles

Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO): Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

The Marketing and Management Career Pathway prepares learners for careers in planning, managing, and performing marketing activities to reach organizational objectives, as well as careers involved in the planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and products by road, air, rail, and water.

Courses:

• Marketing I (Dual Credit through Columbia State Community College)
• Marketing II (Dual Credit through Columbia State Community College)
• Event Planning
• Entrepreneurship (Dual Credit through Columbia State Community College)

Career and Technical Student Organization: Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) and Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

The TV & Film Career Pathway is designed for students interested in a range of entertainment and news media fields. Course content centers on production of various television, cinema, and other audio and video products, including commercials, music, news, interactive programming, and film. Students complete all phases of the production process including planning, coordinating, capturing, editing, and distributing productions. Upon completion of this program of study, students will be prepared to seek employment or advanced training as an audio and video equipment technician, camera operator, film and video editor, multimedia artist and animator, broadcast technician, and many other careers in entertainment and media.

Courses:

• TV & Film I (9th/10th Grade)
• TV & Film II
• TV & Film III (Dual Credit with CSCC & Dual Enrollment with MTSU)
• TV & Film Applied Arts Practicum

Career and Technical Student Organization: SkillsUSA, Tennessee High School Press Association, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences