In addition to providing coursework to regular students, the college will make it available to high school students. This training is a component of the new Accelerated College Education program, which was announced by college and school system administrators on March 1. The academy will allow prep students in SCC's service area to get one year of training, which can lead to a Cisco certification, completed by the time they graduate from high school. A highly structured, dual-enrollment program, ACE is available to area high school students in Jackson, Macon and Swain Counties as well as the Qualla Boundary. They want to know the technical aptitude of the population.
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Jim Campbell, the Vice President for Information Technology and Telecommunications and Michael Deaver, a Computer Engineering Technology instructor, are going to Miami to train 24 high school and several college computer instructors in the latest Cisco networking techniques. Were going down there to train the trainers. Campbell and Deaver were chosen after attending training in Wilmington. This past spring, the College teamed with Cisco to become a Cisco Regional Training Academy, covering all of western North Carolina. The nearest training academy is in Caldwell County.