Mock Interviews: Confidence in Dressing for Success

Our cybersecurity students recently participated in the annual Mock Interview event, where they had the chance to practice real-world interview skills with local business professionals. Each student came dressed in professional attire, demonstrating not only respect for the process but also their commitment to future career success.

Interviewers praised the class for their preparation, professionalism, and ability to communicate confidently under pressure. Many students expressed how the experience helped them understand what employers look for and how to make a strong first impression.

This event wasn’t just about practice—it was about building confidence, showcasing talent, and taking one more step toward becoming job-ready professionals.

ARCHIVED WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

Autonomous Flight & Presenting Skills

Students have been working hard to assemble and navigate an obstacle course for our drones class. Their flight skills are coming along quite nicely!

We have recently explored setting up autonomous flight plans for our drones, leaning more into the planning side of drone flights. Students are assigned weekly roles to get all aspects of a flight day set up.

In GIS news, students are finding the value in a well formatted presentation for their maps and data.

Mousetrap Cars, TAKE 2!

At High Tech Academy, students take on hands-on projects like this across multiple programs, challenging themselves to think critically, collaborate, and apply real-world problem-solving skills.

Last year, High Tech Academy students built their first mousetrap cars from a kit, but this time the training wheels are off! Students only got a mousetrap and a few wheel choices—everything else is up to their creativity and engineering skills. From sketching ideas to cutting, assembling, and testing, they’re figuring out how to make their cars go the distance.

These pictures show the teams in action, building, problem-solving, and bringing their designs to life. It’s all about experimenting, trying new approaches, and seeing which designs can go the farthest!

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!

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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