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Glasgow High School Getting Ready To Open An Academy of Engineering

Posted: 3:34 PM May 1, 2012
Reporter: Elsa Bolt

Glasgow High School Getting Ready To Open An Academy of Engineering

Students with an interest in engineering will soon get more hands on learning at Glasgow High School.

The school is getting ready for their Academy of Engineering.

It will be housed in their new school building, which is currently under construction.

Apart from the core curriculum, students in the academy will take classes on electronics, aerospace, civil engineering, and architecture.

"...They'll get experience working with robotics, setting up conveyor systems. We have a class specifically for computer integrated manufacturing..." says J. R. Darkin, a pre-engineering teacher at Glasgow High School.

On top of that, the classes will be filled with state of the art equipment, which costs 200 thousand dollars.

"... Just a variety of equipment that you would see at a vocational school or a college. And our goal, initially, is just to make sure that the transition, whether they go a post secondary route or a business route... industry route, that they're properly prepared..." says Keith Hale, the principal at Glasgow High School.

A student, who wants to enter the engineering field, is excited.

"The academy will help me figure our exactly what I want to do and I think my Senior or Junior year, they'll allow me to do internships with local companies so that will also help me," says Cody Jones, a freshman at Glasgow High School.

The internships he's referring to will be with companies like Alliance Corporation, Lyons Company, and American Engineers.

Another student, who wants to study medicine, says the academy will help her too.

"I'll learn common sense skills, measurements, taking down things, building things up, which could potentially help me with medical field schools or when I have a career later on in life," says Amy Hall, a freshman at Glasgow High School.

School officials say the Academy of Engineering will be up and running by the start of the school year.

They say they want to lead the way in the math, science, technology and art fields.

They're also looking into opening a Health Academy in the future and recently got a 50 thousand dollar grant from the Kentucky Department of Education for that project.