Learning the skills to pay the bills is what people in the Aiken County Public School District say students get at the Aiken County Career and Technology Center.
Now more students are getting an opportunity to start learning skills for the future with the CTE Summer Academy. The academy is running through Thursday, said Alvina Jackson, the CATE program specialist at the career and technology center.
The summer academy is for rising seventh through ninth graders in Aiken County and offers cosmetology, barbering, fashion design, biomedical science, digital photography, drones, robotics, automotive technology, culinary arts and emergency fire and management services. Participants were were able to choose two programs out of the 10 offered.