WELCOME!

WELCOME! YOU BELONG AT THE ACE CENTER AT HIGHLAND SPRINGS! The ACE Center at Highland Springs was delighted to welcome back our second year students and to welcome our first year students for the first time to our ACE Center at Highland Springs Family! In the first days of school teachers engaged students in activities to get to know each other and to foster a sense of belonging as they began learning about their future professions! We all belong at the ACE Center at Highland Springs!

ARCHIVED WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

collecting evidence

Students in criminal justice are learning how to collect fingerprints, imprints, and impressions. They have all done a great job in collecting and preserving this most valuable of forensic evidence.

Building Network Audit

This week in Cybersecurity, students stepped into the role of network analysts. They explored the building’s technology setup, identified connected devices, and evaluated how everything communicated.

By auditing the environment, they uncovered potential vulnerabilities while practicing real-world investigative skills. To tie it all together, students created detailed network diagrams that mapped out the structure clearly and visually.

These activities helped bridge classroom knowledge with hands-on problem-solving in today’s digital world.

Up, up, and away! a GREAT START TO A NEW PROGRAM

GIS and Drones has had an explosive start by raising our enrollment 400% in the first two weeks of school! As things began to settle, students took to the air with paper airplanes during a lesson on forces of flight. Through trial and error and tweaking their designs, students competed to see who could fly the farthest while explaining their changes in terms of the forces of flight. In addition to paper, students have also taken to the sky with hands-on experience with our drones, taking the first steps to becoming master sUAS pilots.

Building Connections, One card at a time

High Tech Academy Engineering students kicked off the year with a hands-on team-building challenge! Students worked in small groups to discover what they had in common, writing their connections on notecards. The catch? Those same notecards became their only building materials for a tower challenge. The activity sparked plenty of collaboration, creativity, and laughter—setting the tone for a year of problem-solving and teamwork in engineering.

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