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Table of Contents DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE COMMUNICATION PROGRAMS Computer Support Services ...............1 Game Programming and Virtualization ......2 App Development & 3D Gaming Multimedia Design ........................3 Photographic Design ......................4 HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS Certified Nurse Assisting ....................5 Steve Clark Cosmetology ............................6 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Introduction to Criminal Justice .............7 Welcome to the Lake County High Introduction to Policing Schools Technology Campus and Culinary Arts .............................8 our career-technical programs of Early Childhood Education .................9 study. As an extension of your local high school, it is our goal to prepare Emergency Medical Services ..............10 students with the technological and Fire Fighting .............................11 workplace skills required for success in business and industry. Medical Assisting ........................12 The technology-driven curriculum at the Tech Campus will provide you TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS with strong links between schooling and work. You will engage in authentic Automotive Collision Repair ...............13 problems and real world projects both with teachers and with resources Automotive Service ......................14 outside of the classroom. Many of our programs can qualify you for MANUFACTURING / INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMS college credit with the College of Lake County, McHenry County College, and other respected Construction Skills & Management ........15 colleges and technical schools. Photonics ...............................16 We invite you to explore your career Welding / Fabrication ....................17 options by visiting the Tech Campus Project Lead the Way ............18-19 and seeing firsthand what we are all about. You and your parents are Automation/Robotics/Mechatronics ..20 welcome to visit at any time, just Frequently Asked Questions ..........21 call the student services office and make an appointment today. Lake County High Schools Technology Campus • www.techcampus.org • 847.223.6681 COLLEGE CREDIT INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION INTERNSHIPS/JOB SHADOWS COMMUNICATIONS Computer Support Services Have you ever wanted to upgrade your own computer to play a new game? Learn all the basics and more about how a computer works. This program will WHAT WILL MY prepare students CLASSES BE LIKE? for careers in the Does the challenge of dismantling a computer computer field. and putting it back together Students will install, sound cool to you? As a maintain, upgrade, computer technician, you’ll and repair computer know how to fix basic and hardware & software advanced computer problems. on workstations and You’ll learn how to troubleshoot network systems. This hardware and software issues program will prepare and how to upgrade computers students for the A+ for the latest high powered Certification Exam. applications. Before you know Upon successful it, you will be able to build your completion of this own computer. Power up your program, students will future career in computer repair. be able to diagnose EMPLOYMENT hardware or software OPPORTUNITIES failures and perform • Computer Support Specialist the actions • Computer Technician necessary to correct the problems • Information Specialist based on knowledge • MIS/CIS Manager of the system’s operation. • Network Support Specialist • Software Specialist • Systems Administrator Lake County High Schools Technology Campus • www.techcampus.org • 847.223.6681 • 1 COLLEGE CREDIT INTERNSHIPS/JOB SHADOWS Game Programming & Virtualization COMMUNICATIONS App Development & 3D Gaming Formerly Game/C++ Programming If you can dream it, we can teach you how to design it. You know what makes a great video game. Turn your passion for these games into a career choice. WHAT WILL MY GAME PROGRAMMING CLASSES BE LIKE? AND VIRTUALIZATION First you start with the (formerly Game / C++ Programming I) fundamentals of programming. This program is designed to provide You are able to work at your instruction in the computer science field. own pace, understand the Students will be able to develop video basics of programming, and games and professional programs using develop problem solving skills. realistic hands-on interdisciplinary Once you have mastered the exercises. The game programming basics, you will learn what it curriculum will focus on industry takes to design a video game standard coding languages. Additional from scratch. You will also learn training will cover 2D and 3D animation. how to create 3D characters Additionally, students will work with virtual reality technologies and how to animate them. You'll combine all your skills to explore providing experience in virtualizations allowing complex a career in game or mobile data or situations in a simulated real-world application. app development. APP DEVELOPMENT AND 3D GAMING (formerly Game / C++ Programming II) EMPLOYMENT Mobile Media Programmers become creative coders OPPORTUNITIES competent in applying interactive principles 2D & 3D Animator • and theories to mobile and 3D game Artist/Animator/Director • development. Students learn to think Business Development • and act as innovators, adept at using • Specialist • a variety of technologies and C++ Programmer • processes to express ideas and CIS/MIS Manager • solve gaming as well as mobile CIS/MIS Specialist • media design problems. We Computer Engineer • prepare students to develop Game Designer/Programmer • software applications and other Information Specialist • Lead Designer/ • interactive media for mobile • Creative Director • devices such as: smartphone, Technical Director • tablets, and 3-D Game Web Developer • Applications that can run Mobile App Developer • on a variety of platforms. 2 • Lake County High Schools Technology Campus • www.techcampus.org • 847.223.6681 COLLEGE CREDIT INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION INTERNSHIPS/JOB SHADOWS COMMUNICATIONS Multimedia Design Do you have the creativity and talent, but need the skills and know-how? Expand your artistic ability and enhance it with technology. Take your ideas from concept to reality and show it off to the world on your own web site. This program prepares WHAT WILL MY students for a variety of CLASSES BE LIKE? design careers Design your future career by using the most recent graphics including desktop and web software. You will learn publishing, web what it takes to create images design, graphic for print and on the web that will design for games, and get noticed. You’ll start with entry-level animation. some of the basic concepts of Students will design drawing, move on to computer and produce a graphic design projects, and variety of print and then learn how to build a web digital publications site portfolio to show it all off. utilizing a variety of You’ll even get to create logos, software applications business cards, or websites for and technologies real companies. Express your including but not creative side, and truly create limited to: Adobe ® your space on the web. Illustrator ®, Adobe ® EMPLOYMENT Photoshop ®, Adobe ® OPPORTUNITIES InDesign ®, Adobe ® • 2D & 3D Animator Flash ®, Adobe ® • Art or Creative Director ® Dreamweaver , • Desktop Publisher XHTML, and CSS. • Digital Imaging Specialist • Freelance Designer • Front-end Game Designer • Graphic Designer • Layout Artist • Multimedia Designer • Multimedia Director • Paste-up Artist • Production Artist • Project Manager • Typographer • Web Designer Lake County High Schools Technology Campus • www.techcampus.org • 847.223.6681 • 3 C O L L E G E C R E D I T I N T E R N S H I P S / J O B S H A D OW S Photographic COMMUNICATIONS Design Memories fade with the passing of time... make that moment last for a lifetime... capture the perfect picture the right way. W H AT W I L L M Y This program provides C L A S S E S B E L I K E ? an understanding Have you ever seen pictures of the photography that looked so good that you and digital imaging knew a professional had taken industry. Students will them? That person could be you receive extensive by learning the proper techniques training in traditional to capture and edit your pictures. black and white You’ll learn about taking photos, developing, printing, studio and photography which lighting setup, and camera use includes taking through hands-on activities. Use pictures, developing Adobe® Photoshop® to edit in the program’s dark pictures to look like something room, and printing black and white photographs. Digital you wouldn’t imagine possible. photography, portrait photography, and advertising Whether you prefer black and photography skills are taught as part of the program. white, digital color photography, Photograph studio skills taught include techniques you will gain the skills to make for camera use, lighting placement, background, your pictures stand out. props, and layout. A major emphasis will be on ® E M P L OY M E N T digital imaging using the program Adobe O P P O R T U N I T I E S Photoshop® for photograph restoration, Artistic Portraiture Photographer • special effects, touch ups and manipulation. Commercial Photographer • Fashion Photographer • Fine Art Photographer • Freelance Photographer • Newspaper Stringer • Photo Lab Technician • Photo Retouching Artist • Photojournalist • Retail Portrait Photographer • Special Event Photographer • Stock Photographer • Studio Owner • Travel Photographer • Wildlife Photographer • 4 • Lake County High Schools Technology Campus • www.techcampus.org • 847.223.6681 COLLEGE CREDIT INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION INTERNSHIPS/JOB