Tech Prep

Hampden-Hampshire Career Vocational Technical Education Secondary/Post-Secondary Linkages Consortium (formerly known as Tech Prep)

Are you a high school student trying to discover your talents and plan for a career? Tech Prep offers you a head start on college-and saves you money. It's a free program that prepares you for technologically advanced careers and helps you make a smooth transition from high school to college. You'll take classes-at your own high school-that earn you college credits toward an associate degree or certificate at HCC. After graduating from high school, you'll then enroll at HCC to continue your Tech Prep studies.

The Hampden-Hampshire CVTE Secondary/Post-Secondary Linkages Initiative connects high school vocational programs with colleges and other post-secondary career and technical education programs. The Initiative is funded through Perkins IV Title II Tech Prep-Education. The focus of our work is to transition high school students from participating schools into post-secondary programs. Students are counseled into course sequences in chosen career pathways that smoothly transition to college, apprenticeship or technical institutes. The Consortium Staff  and our high-school liaisons focus on the following priorities of the Perkins IV grant:

• Program of Study Grids
• Articulation Agreements
• Early College Placement Testing
• Career Planning

Student Linkages Services:

Transitional services are provided to students in our Consortium schools, including Junior-Senior Transition Symposium; Career Fair; June Symposium for guidance counselors, teachers, and administrators; and information sharing such as Consortium newsletter; and A+dvancer link to A+dvancer page. You can find more information about our annual events throughout the year on the events page link to the events page.

The Consortium Office:

The Consortium Office is housed at Holyoke Community College and works closely with Springfield Technical Community College which also a member of the Hampden Hampshire CVTE Linkages Consortium. Please feel free to contact us link to contact us page for more information.