During the Shreveport Rotary Club's meeting on Dec. 21, members were greeted with generous smiles from the team at Caddo Career & Technology Center.
The Caddo Career & Technology Center is home to over 25 programs and is a technical and career education extension of Caddo Parish high schools. This technical center serves as a remote campus for area high schools to provide hands-on experience in three-hour blocks of instruction.
Kenneth Berg the Principal of Caddo Career and Technology Center and alumni Raegan Hall spoke on the impact of this center and what it offers from an educator's and student perspective.
"We have something for everybody. It doesn't matter if the student is interested in cooking, nursing, computers, video games. We have something that will met the needs of all students," Berg said. "What's great about our programs each one of them can result in an industry based credential."
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Hall was not only a graduate from this center but was the proud recipient of the 2021 Sam Mason scholarship.
The Sam Mason scholarship is an annual scholarship funded by the Rotary Club of Shreveport and was named after the clubs first president in 1914. Each year Rotary Club gifts one lucky student at the Caddo Career and Technology Center with a scholarship and last year it was Hall.
Hall is now at LSU Shreveport and is studying to become a teacher. When she attended the Caddo Career and Technology Center she used that time to gain valuable knowledge on how to be a further her career in teaching.
Many students like Hall choose to continue their education in four-year colleges and universities but some go on to do two-year technical and community colleges, apprenticeships, and even enter the workforce as full-time employees thanks to this center.
Through the involvement of key corporate and school leaders working with teachers and administrators, Caddo Career & Technology Center is working to deliver a world-class workforce.
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Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: The Caddo Career & Technology Center speaks to Shreveport Rotary Club