FOR
RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: May 7, 2007
CONTACT: Nancy
Warren: (206) 878-3710, ext. 3343; nwarren@highline.edu
Event:
Date(s): Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Price: Free
Location:
Highline’s main campus
is located midway between Seattle and Tacoma at South 240th Street and Pacific
Highway South (Highway 99); address: 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, WA 98198.
Description: Community members and area high school students or recent
graduates who received tech-prep credits from Highline Community College, and
their families, are invited to HCC’ s Tech-Prep Night, Tuesday, June 5th, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., in
building 8. Refreshments will be
provided. Tech-Prep is college credit
awarded to high school students for professional technical courses they take in
high school that have articulation agreements with Highline. Students
must receive a B or better in the course to earn the credit. Last year Highline
awarded Tech-Prep credit to more than 600 students at 25 high schools. HCC
belongs to two Tech-Prep consortia – the the Puget Sound Career Consortium (including
Highline, Renton, Tukwila, South Kitsap, and Federal Way School Districts, and
Puget Sound Skills Center) and the South King County Tech Prep Consortium (including
Federal Way, Renton, Enumclaw,
White River,
Puyallup, Auburn, Kent, Tahoma, and Sumner School Districts, and the Puget Sound
Skills Center).
Sponsored by: HCC
Professional-Technical Programs
Web
site: www.highline.edu
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