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PTC General Electronics Technology: Maintenance Technicians Wanted
The Pickens Technical College Engineering and Technology pathway includes the General Electronics Technology course taught by John Holmes. This class helps prepare students for careers in several areas, including as a maintenance technician.
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Pickens Health Pathway: Demand for Medical Assistants Never Higher
You probably know already that the healthcare industry in the state of Colorado is booming. If you’re in the Health Pathway at Pickens Technical College, your professors have probably already hammered this into your head. That’s why, at PTC, there has never been a greater emphasis on career services focusing on health students and professionals, and that’s because there has never been higher demand for trained medical workers, especially medical assistants.
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Pickens Construction and Development Pathway: HVAC Features Getting Smarter
Now, more than ever before in the history of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning, new technology is changing the industry. The introduction of smart homes technology demanded a new way to control HVAC systems in the home, which meant building ways for varying devices in a single household to communicate with each other.
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Pickens Photography Students Soon Won’t Have Far to Go to Shoot for the Stars
In the Pickens Technical College Arts, Media, and Communication pathway, the Professional Photography course is extremely popular, and with good reason. Under the careful instruction of Erik Schubert, students get the best instruction for building their skills around what photographers call ‘the eye.’ Having eyes won’t help photographers at all if they can’t develop film, utilize both digital and analog methods of editing photos, and find the right angles and framing techniques in the field. That’s why Pickens offers students the chance to work hands-on with all aspects of photography before they try to point and shoot their way to lucrative (and fun) careers.
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PTC Hospitality and Tourism: Colorado’s Tourism and Hospitality Market Strengthened Even More With New App
The Pickens Technical College Tourism and Hospitality Marketing course in the Business, Marketing, and Public Administration Pathway is designed to put students directly in career paths within the booming tourism industry in Colorado. Students learn how to break in and thrive in many aspects of the massive tourism economy in one of the most beautiful states in the Union. Colorado obviously has many advantages to its tourism market, from some of the best skiing in the world to the up-and-coming energy of the Denver metro area itself. PTC prepares students to hit the ground running in this industry and to take advantage of the many opportunities the tourism economy offers.
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If They Can Do It, So Can You: Examples of Extraordinary Barbers
The Pickens Technical College Barber Program puts students in charge of real haircuts and stylings as soon as possible. The Pickens barber shop is a popular place where students and community members alike can get high-quality service while allowing the Barber Program students to lean on the job. Experiential learning is of course a high priority for all Pickens courses, and in the Barber Program, learning while doing is crucial to getting the skills and experience needed to be the next successful neighborhood barber.
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PTC High School Pathway: Possible Changes that Could Affect Early Childhood Education in Denver
The Pickens Technical College High School Pathway allows high school students to get a jumpstart on their higher education goals. One program offered in the High School Pathway is Early Childhood Education, which is designed to prepare students for work immediately as a teacher’s assistant in a childcare center, preschool, or elementary school. Many students use their experience in the classroom as an assistant to pursue their teacher’s certificate and run their own classrooms.
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Pickens Technical College Business, Marketing, and Public Administration Pathway: Opportunities With Small Business Management
In the Pickens Technical College Business, Marketing, and Public Administration pathway and Small Business Management class, you have the opportunity to prove that you’re ready to run a business. The Small Business Management program at Pickens gives you the competencies and skills you’ll need to build your own business or find a fit with one of the many start-ups and small companies booming throughout the Denver metro area and beyond.
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PTC Landscaping and Environmental Pathway: Large Veterinary Assistant Employer Announces Potentially Industry-Wide Changes
The Veterinary Assistant program at Pickens Technical College in the Landscaping and Environmental Pathway prepares students for a career working with animals, building skills you’ll need to succeed in this growing industry. Everything from animal management, animal care, health and nutrition, and even office management skills is included in the Pickens’ Veterinary Assistant program, and graduates frequently find jobs in veterinary offices large and small.
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PTC Engineering and Technology Pathway: Current State of Cyber Security Favors Technicians
At the Pickens Technical College’s Cyber Technician program, students learn how to safeguard data and generally be proper custodians of corporate and private networks. Not only do students get the latest instruction on how cyber security works these days, they also get a firm grounding in troubleshooting, working with multiple operating systems, setting up networks, and all the additional skills that will be expected of them aside from keeping databases secure.
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