Students in grades 7-12 and their families can find out more about a variety of career and educational pathways Oct. 22 at CTE’s first Life-Ready Expo. The event will be held at the Advanced Career Education Center at Hermitage. Talk with employers about career opportunities and the total value of their pay and benefits. Learn…

Godwin wants to challenge any foods- culinary class. Who takes the best “grammar” pic of lemon and water.  The students were given a lemon and they were to figure out the best way to photo. They learned knife skills, teamwork, problem-solving, creative thinking, time management, and loved it! Click here for more photos.

Shannon M. Jean-Pierre is a professional make-up artist. She demonstrated make-up techniques for the Cosmetology class at The ACE Center at Highland Springs. Mrs. Jean-Pierre is a 2006 graduate of The ACE Center at Hermitage (Cosmetology) and owns her own company, Live Fancy Make-up. Here’s the site: https://www.livefancymakeup.com/   Click here for photos. 09/25/2019

Dr. Reveles, High Tech Academy program students are testing an exothermic reaction to release energy in the form of a spark or flash. The flash occurs because of mechanical energy (vigorously smacking one rusty cannonball with another one covered in aluminum foil) causing iron oxide on the cannonball to react with the aluminum metal, oxidizing…

The Vet II class at the ACE Center at Hermitage is fostering 2 female, black & white, special-needs kittens. Both are missing part of a back leg. They manage to get around pretty well, despite that. Click here for photos.

Mrs. Thompson’s Varina HS Advanced Sports Marketing students are setting up equipment to start their YouTube Podcast. Students are excited! Their first televised production set for Tuesday. Visit and subscribe @ VHSSportsreactions.  

We have some photos of the first day at Hermitage and Highland Springs ACE Centers. Click here for Hermitage and click here for Highland Springs.

Our Summer Building Trades students had lunch with their parents and were able to show them the hard work they have been doing this summer on Henrico’s 18th and 19th student built house. Every year students from the Summer Building Trades, and the CTE trades programs during the regular school year, get practical experience building…

Text from press release: Henrico, Va. July 24, 2019 – Henrico County Public Schools’ initiative to celebrate students entering the workforce has been recognized with a first-place award from the Virginia School Boards Association. Henrico Schools won first place among large Virginia school divisions in the 2019 Excellence in Workforce Readiness Awards for its Career…