Eastern High School has one of 86 academies in New Jersey, as do high schools in Camden, Haddon Heights, the Lenape regional district and Washington Township as well as the Burlington County Institute of Technology, which is the regional training center for teachers in South Jersey. In Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia School District has 18 schools with academies, more than any other district in the state, training 800 students in high-tech skills. There are also academies at Abington High School, Freedom High School in Bethlehem, and Upper Perkiomen High School in Pennsburg. Not only are they providing the industry with trained employees, if companies know that all these students are trained on Cisco systems, they are going to buy Cisco products. In the classes, the students learn how to set up a network of computers and get it up and running on the Internet.
Cisco is the largest producer of routers and switches in the world.
Anne Urevick has been teaching computer-hardware courses in Philadelphia for 16 years, and is now a Cisco regional academy administrator. She has trained all the Philadelphia School District teachers, and she is impressed with the Cisco curriculum. These are Internet kids, and they are very open to an e-learning format. Web site is interactive. It includes movies, graphics, sound. . . .