The Montgomery County Public School Division Continues to Look to the Future by Offering Expanded Career and Technical Education Courses

 

Career and Technical Education offerings continue to be expanded within Montgomery County Public Schools through the addition of courses such as advertising design, which is taught at Blacksburg High School.  Kelly Showalter, the advertising design teacher at BHS, has 14 years of experience in advertising design in industry.  She will be teaching the technical and artistic skills used in advertising.  Students will work with industry standard iMac computers and Adobe CS3 suite software.

Ms. Showalter's students are eagerly planning and creating a variety of graphics products, such as a public service campaign about bullying.  Students hope to use these materials to wage an anti-bullying campaign at BHS and in other community schools.

Advertising design was added to the graphics art department, which offers courses in graphic design and commercial photography. These classes are taught by Mike Kaylor.  The addition of advertising design and a "green screen" lab has greatly expanded the artistic and technical capability of the department and has doubled the number of students who have access to this exciting program.  Montgomery County Public Schools has added these types of courses because the skill sets taught are in high demand in the workplace.