Tech Prep is a school-to-careers partnership between education and business that prepares young people for today's skilled workforce. This partnership involves high schools, colleges, large & small businesses, governmental agencies -- all working together!

Tech Prep is a rigorous technical and academic curriculum that includes:
4 years of high school
+ 2 years of college
= 6 year program.... Tech Prep Associate Degree

• The resulting Tech Prep Associate Degree is available at Texas' community and technical colleges.


• A Tech Prep Associate Degree prepares students to go straight to work, or to pursue a bachelor's degree, or, as is becoming more and more common, both.


• Tech Prep is a school-to-careers partnership between education and business that prepares young people for today's skilled workforce. This partnership involves high schools, colleges, large & small businesses, governmental agencies -- all working together!


• Tech Prep relies on the business/education connection to design job-specific curricula to prepare students for occupations currently in demand and for those projected to be in demand.


• Tech Prep meets the "Learning for Earning" needs of the middle 50% of students.


• The Tech Prep Associate Degree includes the following components:
  • Integration of Academic & Vocational Curricula
  • Curricula which incorporate workplace know-how
  • Exposure to the workplace

To learn more about Tech Prep of the Rio Grande Valley visit the following web site: http://www.techprepRGV.com