Established September 1997 Director Gary Thompson District Toledo Public Schools Number of students 186 | Superintendent Dr. Romulus Durant Phone +1 419-479-3161 Color Orange | |
Type Public, Coeducational high school Motto We will conduct ourselves as if we are in a high tech, corporate business environment. School district Toledo City School District Address 3301 Upton Ave, Toledo, OH 43613, USA Similar Toledo Early College, Toledo Public School Di, Ottawa Hills High School, Whittier Junior High School, DeVilbiss High School | ||
Toledo technology academy reinvents tech education
Toledo technology academy
Background
Toledo Technology Academy is a public high school located in Toledo, Ohio. It is part of the Toledo Public Schools. It is located in the former DeVilbiss High School. Many students from surrounding suburban school districts, as well as private schools attend TTA. On November 27, 2013, TTA announced that they will accept applications from 7th and 8th grade in the next school year of 2014. Toledo Technology Academy students study manufacturing engineering technology integrated with an academic environment. TTA is a magnet school focusing on a manufacturing engineering technology curriculum with academics integrated with technical classes preparing students for a rewarding, lifelong career in manufacturing technologies. TTA offers an academic foundation, four years of science, mathematics, language arts, and three years of social studies education.
Contents
- Toledo technology academy reinvents tech education
- Toledo technology academy
- Background
- TTA facts
- Track record
- Tech Fusion Team 279
- References
TTA facts
As innovators, designers, researchers, planners, teachers, and managers, engineers work in a variety of professional fields. TTA provides students with a diverse and extensive hands-on training in plastics technologies, automated systems, manufacturing operations, computer-automated design, electronics and other manufacturing technologies.
Students learn in an interactive atmosphere of teamwork, curiosity, and excellence, with industrial involvement and support. This school prepares students for high-paying technical careers, two and four-year college degrees, scholarships, internships, specific industrial certifications, honors and post secondary programs offered, and articulation agreements with area universities for advanced credit.
Track record
TTA began as a two-year program within a traditional high school. In 1997, a collaborative partnership was formed with the school system, teaching and administrative unions, area businesses and the United Auto Workers, and a four-year high school was opened. What was found at that time continues to be true today. Technology, manufacturing, and engineering continue to be one of Toledo's largest opportunities for growth. Our small and large manufacturers continually express an ongoing need for well-trained, high-quality, entry-level employees in trade, technical and engineering positions. Increasingly, these entry-level workers need more advanced high tech skills in addition to higher-level thinking/reasoning skills and teamwork experiences. Currently, 75% of the persons applying and/or interviewed for these positions are not qualified. Nationally and regionally schools are preparing only about 30% of this needed workforce. This information was gathered at the National Skill Standards Board meetings and continues to be true.
The mission of the original project was as follows: To support a four-year high school technical program related to Manufacturing Engineering Technology within Toledo Public School Systems known as the Toledo Technology Academy (TTA). TTA's instructional system uses project-based learning, allowing the students to have maximum decision-making responsibility. Skills are taught to support this process and technology is used to support all instruction. TTA provides a complete academic complement of courses for graduation and college entry. Weekly common planning meetings are held to incorporate and integrate instruction. Where appropriate, the academic course content is related to the manufacturing curriculum and vice versa.
Tech Fusion Team 279
Team Fusion Team 279 is the FIRST Robotics team located at Toledo Technology Academy. It is open to all Toledo Public Schools students. The team is sponsored by Dana Holding Corporation in Maumee, Ohio. Team 279 had accomplished major achievements in the 21st century: