What's happened: On May 7, the Porter County Career Center hosted a blood drive with American Red Cross. Over 30 students donated blood in both the morning and afternoon classes. During the blood drive, there...
What’s Happened COVID-19 has surely put a damper on the school year, but the Porter County Career & Technical Center staff made a fun day full of bubble wrap for the students to enjoy. On January 31,...
The Porter County Career Center resumed classes on January 4 after two weeks of winter break. In the health science occupations, two students are about to begin their clinicals at different health facilities in the area. The video and...
High school students are special. The students in this year's #1StudentNWI program are inspiring. They are so excited to work. They are thrilled about the opportunity. They are thinking about college. About their future. The best part is they're good...
The Porter County Career Center has had quite a busy fall semester. The school held its second virtual learning day December 2. During the virtual learning day, no students had in-person instruction. Instead,...
Student Spotlight Mason Rife is a first-year in a video and media production, but he has a large amount of experience working with cameras and editing videos. Rife created a YouTube channel called “Not Ever Average” (NEA) that reached...
What’s Happened The Porter County Career and Technical Center has had a great start to the 2020-21 school year thus far! The health science occupations class volunteered at the Valpo Parks 2020 Popcorn Panic 5K race and helped the runners...
Jon Groth discovered the value of vocational training primarily as an accident when he was a young man. He aspired to play football at Notre Dame, but nobody told him that likely wouldn’t happen, so when it didn’t, he needed a plan. After a stint...
There can be no question that innovation and collaboration are making a significant impact locally on an issue that is affecting us nationwide – the need for skilled trade professionals. Perhaps one of the strongest examples of this is a unique...
Summer Reading Every year, the Porter County Public Library System puts on the summer reading program for kids and adults. Summer Reading is a lot more than just reading though, the library incentivizes patrons to engage in summer reading by offering...
