Career Technical Education

East Side Union High School District’s Career Services Program provides students with exciting and unique educational opportunities as offered through a rich array of college and career readiness pathways. These pathways allow students to pursue their post high school career interests while receiving the latest industry practices in their chosen field. Pathway approaches include partnership academies, Linked Learning, Career-Technical Education, and magnet programs. Pathways are supported through staff collaboration and professional development, systems support and leadership, and robust industry and community partnerships. Click HERE to access our direct website and learn more about what we have to offer!

Articulations

• Mission College - 13 courses at Mission College are articulated with ESUHSD CTE courses allowing students to earn college credit while in high school
• Ohlone College - Biotech 105 is articulated with Oak Grove High School's "The Science and Ethics of Biotechnology"

Andrew Hill High School - Medical Magnet

• Medical Magnet had their Awards Night to celebrate the year, continuing the tradition of honoring all the students, but specifically highlighting the achievements of the seniors. The Sue Alves Memorial Scholarship was given to 4 outstanding students who want to continue to pursue their higher education in the Medical Field - Chau Thai, Natalie Nguyen, Melonie Toman, and Lynnette Truong. In addition, a new scholarship, the Dr. Shimizu/Joe Gotelli, who were the founders of the Medical Magnet Program at Andrew Hill, was given out to Isabella Tran.
  

Independence High School - Academy of Finance

• Two Teams made it as Top Ten finalists in World Series of Innovation - Senior Sunrise, a senior community center to incentivize healthy habits, by Jasmine Aquinde and Fashion Econ, a subscription marketplace for second-hand or thrifted clothing to promote a green and fashionable clothing economy, by Shirley Nguyen & Jarren Baladad. One Team made it as finalist in the first round of NFTE’s Business Pitch Competition, Study Buddy, an educational app aimed to connect students with classmates and teachers for virtual study sessions, by Nishika Lal & Jasmine Aquinde
• Mentorship Program - Third year of our Mentorship program is wrapping up on Tues. May 16, 2023. This year we had a small but mighty group of ten students and ten mentors from Google, MAGE AI, Cradlepoint, Federal Public Defender’s office, Excite Credit Union, ForgeRock, Green Sea Occupational Therapy, and Paving Your Way Forward. Mentees received 6 hour-long zoom sessions and got to participate in a job shadow experience organized by their mentors.

Mt. Pleasant High School - Multimedia

• The students of Multimedia II at Mt. Pleasant High School as part of the Directing Change Film Contest were tasked with creating short films on mental health and suicide prevention. In total 15 films were shown at our Mental Heath Awareness event. The films were powerful and thought-provoking, each one drawing attention to mental health. Six films were recognized and received awards.
  
• Mt. Pleasants multimedia 2/3/4 students volunteered to cover the San Jose State University (SJSU) Aviation Career Day at Reid Hillview Airport. The students filmed the entire event and conducted interviews with organizers, middle school to high school attendees, and professionals from pilots, SJ Airport, and aviation industry experts. In addition to filming the event, the students are also editing eight 15-second promotional films for the SJSU aviation program.
  
• Amazon and Levi's Corporation, recently conducted separate podcast reviews for the talented students of the CTE Multimedia program. This partnership, organized by Hands-On Bay Area, marked a significant milestone in providing authentic feedback and amplifying the voices of young storytellers.

Silver Creek High School

• Silver Creek Business Students Pick Their Path to Prosperity:

  We are thrilled to share the amazing achievements of our students who participated in our Professional Development "Pick a Path" program. They chose and completed trainings of interest from AWS, HubSpot, and Salesforce, three leading platforms in the cloud computing and digital marketing fields. Our students showed their dedication and curiosity by completing the following trainings: AWS Introduction to Cloud Computing (19 students), HubSpot training (39 students), and Salesforce Trailhead training (31 students). In addition, 67 students earned the Intuit Design for Delight Innovator Certification, which demonstrates their ability to apply design thinking principles to solve real-world problems. We are so proud of our students and their accomplishments!
• Students Connect, Collaborate, Compete, and Grow! Pathway students are eligible to participate in the two premiere Business Career & Technical Student Organizations (CTSO): Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) which not only have high school chapters but also collegiate. Connecting, collaborating, competing, and growing have fueled success in both of our CTSOs. One of our DECA teams placed third in the nation in the Modeling the Future Challenge garnering a handsome $10,000 in scholarships for the team members’ "Dryland Salinity in Australia" data modeling project. Our FBLA students came home with seventeen awards out of twenty-one categories in the State Competition and qualified to compete at the National Competition in Atlanta in June. These students worked hard, competed well, had fun, and were victorious - an experience they will remember for a lifetime.

Another Silver Creek student is heading to the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in New York City! This is our third National Finalist in four years and Back-to-Back Bay Area Region winners. [Photo: Mr. Butler, Abhinav Gorrepatti(left), and Saket Pathak (right)]. On October 3, Saket Pathak will take the stage in New York to pitch his InclusifyIQ, an AI-based platform for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion management.

Sunny is a senior in IHS' Teaching Academy who enjoys working with elementary school students. She has learned that students have different ways of learning, but they all want the same thing--to be successful. Sunny’s hobbies include going to concerts, drawing, and painting. She is being recognized because she displays maturity, patience, and compassion in working with her elementary school students, all traits which are central to our program.

Franklin Templeton Investments hosted a FinTech summit in collaboration with Junior Achievement. Students participated in a firm presentation, FinTech talk, campus tour, and a networking luncheon.

PayPal, in partnership with NFTE, hosted a business coaching and networking day. Students were able to engage with two mentors assign at each table and participate in a lunch panel with Amplify (works to foster an inclusive workplace by enhancing the recruitment, retention, and advancement of Black employees while promoting cultural awareness), RISE (a community whose mission is to empower PayPal's Pan Asian employees to elevate to their full potential), Unity (a group of women and men working together to create more opportunities for women at PayPal).

At the Tech Interactive, students were broken up into three groups and each participated in one of the following innovation labs: Social Robots, Sustainable Cities, and Climb the Cascade, each lab involved designing a solution to a problem or task. This was to give them experience and prepare them for the ideation and design process of creating a business solution to address the UN Sustainability goals (Students participate in the World Series of Innovation Challenge when they take Economics of Small Business Ownership). Additionally, students were to explore the innovations in the museum and brainstorm business ideas inspired by innovations they saw and read about. We discussed their ideas over lunch while supporting local businesses.

Mission College Field Trip students had the opportunity to learn more about different pathways to college, the business program, and support groups offered by Mission College. They got to tour the campus, participate in a jeopardy game, meet the dean, and explore the multicultural fair.

Andrew Hill's sophomore Medical Academy students took a field trip to SJSU College of Health and Human Sciences Departments. Students were able to not only tour the campus, but they were provided lunch and were able to visit the departments that they had the most interest in.

The WINGS mental health club at Andrew Hill High School promotes mental wellbeing within their school community, emphasizing spreading awareness and publicizing available school resources. The students engaged with the Chief of Staff of our San Jose representative, Ash Kalra. In the discussion, the students echoed NAMI’s support of SB 326, in order to modernize the Mental Health Services Act, due to service needs evolving monumentally since the act’s passing in 2004. Furthermore, they received the chance to advocate for the needs especially affecting the school’s demographics.

Over 571 students, 25 classrooms and 115 industry partners helped to make 2022-2023 a success! Fore more details on the exiting opportunities our students experienced, click HERE.

Multimedia 3/4 CTE students were provided with access to state-of-the-art equipment, collaboration with industry, real-world challenges, and a final awards screening. In collaboration with Next Step, a renowned leader in Marketing Advertising, students are provided invaluable guidance from project inception to completion. From the very beginning of a project until its final stages, students are fortunate to have mentors who offer valuable support and guidance. The culmination of this internship this year was six unique films that collectively promote the San Jose Spartan East Side Promise; a partnership between San Jose State and the East Side Union High School that provides students with a clear path to San Jose State University and serves as a powerful motivator for students to attend college. The films showcase the incredible talent and creativity of these young filmmakers while also inspiring others to pursue their own educational goals. Enjoy their work by clicking this LINK

95 students were interviewed by volunteers from Deloitte, Apple, Jr Achievement, Excite Credit Union, Roche, Zoom, Somos Mayfair, Stanford Medical, Ernst & Young, Silicon Valley Education Foundation, Paving Your Way Forward, and Slingshot Connections as well as several Sixer alumni. Volunteers were very impressed with their preparedness, professionalism, questions, and unique perspectives. On the flip side, our students were thrilled to share how the experience made them feel more confident and connected to our community, and clear on how to take that step towards achieving their career goals.

61 Career Technical Education students participated in summer internship programs from varying high schools including opportunities ranging from architecture, app development to marketing with impressive employers including Intuit, City of San Jose (Fire Department, City Hall, Library, etc), Better Business Bureau and more! These students were not only paid but also earned elective credit towards high school graduation.

"I used Microsoft Excel's Power Query to compile educational data to be uploaded to a larger database for future use. I would definitely encourage others to apply for an internship as the opportunity to learn different aspects of the real world at a young age is invaluable."

- Jeslyn Liew, Piedmont Hills High School

"I created marketing Instagram posts for city events targeting younger audience and continually used my communication skills with contacts in the Office of Cultural Affairs. I really enjoyed the creative freedom I was given."

- Matthew Guardiano, Mount Pleasant High School

Students in the Marketing/Entrepreneurship Program worked with CSF to honor the grand prize winners for the event's poster design by printing shirts in house, printing stickers to distribute at the event and printing posters to promote the event.

Students in the program organized a Mental Health Awareness Fair with 70 filmmakers present and 15 films screened during the event. We had a community organization, The Downtown Youth Wellness Center, participate and they promoted mental health organizations in San Jose. Additionally, Our students designed and distributed 30+ t-shirts promoting Mental Health Awareness and the new suicide helpline number. Film Link: “Mental Heath Vision”

“The power that comes from giving students a voice, creates a ripple effect of change, especially regarding the important topic of mental health. When given the opportunity to express their message through film, the impact becomes even greater, as their stories have the power to inspire, educate, and move hearts and minds towards a more compassionate and understanding world” – William Cavada, Instructor

Andrew Hill hosted its first ever Health Fair Day. The students invited BACH (Bay Area Community Health) which provided a dental van in which over 50 students were screened. We also had juniors perform blood pressure screenings and seniors demonstrate and teach Hands-only CPR. The WINGS (Wellness ) club had activities for mental health.

VDC is the first class of its kind in the district because it offers college credits, a certificate in virtual design and construction from Stanford University, and the opportunity to build a project that benefits the school community. To celebrate this unique class, Insane Ink orchestrated a class competition to design hoodies for VDC students to wear to the mentor sessions with industry professionals and the final presentation. Wearing their newly acquired hoodies marketing the CTE program at PHHS, the students had the opportunity to present the projects they built for the school at Santa Clara University. The event allowed them to showcase their work to industry mentors and esteemed professors from the university.The collaboration between the VDC program and Insane Ink highlighted the power of partnerships between different educational pathways. The collaborative effort not only enhanced the students' experience but also demonstrated the importance of interdisciplinary cooperation in preparing them for future endeavors.

One funds it and markets it, the other designs it and yet other produces the final project. This is exactly how three CTE pathways at one high school demonstrate collaboration. Insane Ink, a student enterprise at PH, donates 50% of its profits to the community and the Class of 2022 wanted more benches on campus for student use. Instead of simply buying benches, the Class of 2023 Insane Ink Board preferred that students of campus design and building them. With Insane Ink's funding, the Manufacturing ad Construction students made it into a reality!

PIEDMONT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL - Marketing & Entrepreneurship

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SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL - Entrepreneurship

INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL - Academy of Finance

EVERGREEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL - Systems Programming

SANTA TERESA HIGH SCHOOL - Systems Programming

OAK GROVE HIGH SCHOOL - Biotechnology

ANDREW HILL HIGH SCHOOL - Healthy and Human Services Academy

INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL - Teaching Academy

OVERFELT HIGH SCHOOL - Child Development & Education

ANDREW HILL HIGH SCHOOL - Social Justice & Legal Practice

YERBA BUENA HIGH SCHOOL - Legal Services

PIEDMONT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL - Construction Technology

YERBA BUENA HIGH SCHOOL - Construction & Architecture

INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL - Residential & Commercial Construction

W.C. OVERFELT HIGH SCHOOL - Engineering Design

INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL - Engineering Academy

YERBA BUENA HIGH SCHOOL - Engineering and Architecture

INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL - Transportation Pathway

PIEDMONT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL - Advanced Manufacturing

MOUNT PLEASANT HIGH SCHOOL - Animation

MOUNT PLEASANT HIGH SCHOOL - Multimedia Production

SANTA TERESA HIGH SCHOOL - Visual/Commercial Arts

W.C. OVERFELT HIGH SCHOOL - Multimedia Academy

ANDREW HILL HIGH SCHOOL - Graphic Design

Cecilia Dang is a proud member of IHS' Teaching Academy, both as a 2011 alumni and currently as Psychology teacher. She graduated from UC Irvine and majored in Psychology, Social Behavior, and Education. Ms. Dang always wanted to be a teacher as she experienced great teachers throughout her academic career.

Tim Nguyen, Director of Career Services

Email: nguyent@esuhsd.org
Website: https://eastsidecareerpathways.org/
Location: 830 N. Capitol Avenue San Jose, CA 95133
Phone: 408-347-5241