MPS’ MPACT Holds Recruitment Expo
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Montgomery Public Schools students had the opportunity to learn about MPACT and what programs the technical school provides. A recruitment fair was held today at Cramton Bowl where students could interact with professionals in various technical careers.
What was known as MTECH, is now MPACT, which stands for Montgomery Preparatory Academy for Career Technologies. Officials changed the school’s name last week and are working to completely revamp the tech school.
Nicholas Yeend is a full-time student at MPACT and will graduate next month. He studied advertising and technical design throughout his high school career and says MPACT will help him land a job.
“Everyone is taught to be a lawyer, make the big money and get an office job,” he says. “That can only get you so far, you need the actual workers and I think that’s what’s missing in our country right now.”
Montgomery Public Schools officials say there’s a demand for technical workers in Alabama, which is why they held an expo for MPACT.
“It’s kind of like your old vocational school with technology enhanced,” says Cindy Veazey, the Career Tech Director for MPACT.
“What they do is go to a normal traditional zoned high school and they will either come in the morning half a day and then the afternoon they will be at their traditional school or they will be at their traditional school in the morning and then MPACT the afternoon,” she says.
9th grade students who attended the expo say it’s opened their eyes to different careers.
“Mostly welding because that is a career I would like to take up,” one student tell us.
“Everything so far has interested me,” another says.
Others say they will be applying for MPACT.
“After today, after walking around, I realized that it would be a good job for me to, later on in life it’ll help me out,” says student Taylor Williams.
“We can get a feel of how it’s going to be next year when we actually apply to MPACT and actually go to the school,” says Park Crossing High School student Elijah Eilan.
MPACT accepts 10th, 11th and 12th graders.
The school will move to a new location next year, the One Center, formerly known as the old Montgomery Mall.
For more information, visit their website at http://www.mpact.mps-al.org/
