Business Ownership Program Featured on Ohio Department of Education Website

01/09/2012
Miami Valley CTC shows how high school workplace readiness starts for small business Miami Valley Career and Technology Center (CTC) in Montgomery County took a risk this fall and became the first to implement Ohio's new Entrepreneurship Pathway standards into a two-year high school program. The 36 juniors and seniors are doing research and writing business plans along with applications of real-work experiences for business start-ups in such areas as health fitness, accounting and daycare. The success in this second year of the Business Ownership Tech Prep program is due in large part of planning and on-going collaboration with Sinclair Community College and with on-site business partnership with FirstDay Federal Credit Union. A team from the center will be among presenters at the Ohio Economic-Education Summit on March 7, 2012, in Columbus. To read more about this example of career education, check out the feature story on the Ohio Department of Education Web.