CTE Program- STEM

Bioscience

• Identify specific biological/biohazardous/chemical materials, understand and respond to safety signs and symbols, and distinguish the characteristics of biosafety levels
• Work in a modern lab to test hypotheses utilizing appropriate experimental design (distinguish between controls and variables)
• Collect, record, and analyze appropriate data, and support your conclusions based on evidence

Locations offering Bioscience
Palo Verde High Magnet School
Pueblo Magnet High School
Tucson High Magnet School

Engineering Sciences

• Use a structured approach to solving problems including, defining a problem (including customer needs), brainstorming, researching and generating ideas, identifying criteria and constraints, exploring possibilities, making a model (physical, mathematical, conceptual), evaluating the solution using standards and specifications (testing), and communicating results
• Apply fundamental scientific laws and principles relevant to engineering and technology to a variety of problems involving mechanical, fluid, electrical and thermal systems
• Apply mathematical laws and principles relevant to engineering and technology and use industry standard tools and precise systems of measurement to collect and analyze data, help make decisions, and create models
• Prepare for a wide variety of engineering careers such as mechanical, software, architectural, civil/structural, electrical, chemical, and mining, and in many cases earn UA College of Engineering credit (speak with your high school counselor)

• Analyze how content and information are communicated in schematics, blueprints, and technical drawings
• Use computer hardware, software, input/output devices, CADD/VDCM Modeling, and trigonometry for design drafting
• Design and create foundry, machine, welded, and sheet metal products
• Draft assemblies of components including aligned, assembly and cross sections

Locations offering Mechanical Drafting
Cholla Magnet High School
Palo Verde Magnet High School

• Prepare a plan of work and schedule information technology tasks; identify common project management; evaluate problem-solving process results; and maintain a safe work environment
• Learn data integrity and security procedures; explore legal and ethical issues; and identify workers’ rights
• Demonstrate binary and other numeric systems in computer applications; install, configure and upgrade computers and printers; identify and resolve computer viruses and troubleshoot other problems; implement preventive maintenance, safety and environmental procedures
• Study networking hardware, operating systems, interfaces, major system files, network configuration, firewalls, wireless networking, protocols, and terminologies

• Learn how to collect pertinent information from patients/customers for the pharmacist
• Screen prescription/medication orders for completeness and authenticity using first-person and electronic systems
• Prepare medications for distribution in accordance with the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy laws and regulations
• Differentiate between the use and side effects of prescription and non-prescription medications used to treat common diseases
• Work beside a certified pharmacist in a clinical, medical or retail setting

Precision Machining / Manufacturing

• Design a job process plan by interpreting blueprint drawings, symbols, scales, and legends; as well as identifying and sketching dimensions
• Produce products using hand drills, scrapers, hydraulic presses, vises, milling machines, grinding wheels, Cartesian coordinates, multi-axis CNC equipment, etc.
• Create and implement manufacturing processes meeting quality standards; maintain equipment, tools and workstations; perform safety and health requirements for maintenance, installation and repair
• Demonstrate mathematical concepts in manufacturing including metric conversions, geometric concepts and terminology, trade formulas, and arithmetic operations – with or without a calculator

Locations offering Precision Machining / Manufacturing
Tucson Magnet High School

• Use your skills of analysis and design to create programs with the same software the pros use; compile and execute programs; and follow established documentation standards
• Use a program editor to enter and modify code; identify errors; and perform integration testing
• Write code to perform arithmetic calculations; employ modules; and use conditional structures in writing programs, repetitive structures, simple data types and strings
• Implement arrays in programs; identify correct syntax for declaring and initializing arrays of data types; access elements; manipulate data; employ programming; and perform run-time error handling

Locations offering Software Development
University High School

• Work with athletes, coaches, and professionals to apply psychology and motivation techniques to athletic training and physical fitness
• Use taping techniques and protective equipment to prevent, support, or treat sports injuries, and employ techniques that can be used to increase strength, mobility, and endurance
• Identify situations when emergency treatment is needed, perform standard first aid skills, and select the needed transport procedures for the injury and setting
• Apply selected therapy modalities for athletes in accordance with needed treatment, and report on the response to treatment

Locations offering Sports Medicine
Catalina High School
Cholla High Magnet School
Palo Verde High Magnet School
Pueblo Magnet High School
Sahuaro High School
Tucson High Magnet School