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Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences Gears-Up for Next Year

CAIS has room for 9th, 10th, and 11th grade high school students that are ready to work on careers and earn college credits in a free, innovative, public charter high school in Oregon City.

We help students launch a variety of careers: Our current students want careers in health and veterinary sciences, fine and performing arts, engineering, robotics, trades, and manufacturing.

Our interns this year will be located at several locations including: Pioneer Pump, Oregon Iron Works, Miles Fiberglass, and Benchmade Knife Company.

Course content focuses on local, regional, and global economics, sustainability, academics, and skills.

Many of our students have already launched their careers, like Jared Kimber whose company, Opus Bridge, provides high quality electrical work.

Our courses align with four year degree programs at many colleges, and CAIS is partnering this year with Concordia University's School of Business Management to jump start student's college careers.

Class sizes are currently 20 or less, but classes will fill soon, our class size average is 25 or less when we are at full capacity. We enroll students first come first serve until we meet our cap. Don't miss your chance to enroll your student in a small high school focused on their careers and their interests.

For more information contact Ginger.Redlinger@orecity.k12.or.us - 503.785.8780.

CAIS Student Outcome #1

Accelerate students beyond high school into academic and technical college courses. (Graduate with college credits earned on a college campus.)

CAIS Student Outcome #2

Train students to use current workplace technologies - AutoCAD, 3DS SolidWorks, Animation Platforms, and Web 2.0- 3.0.

CAIS Student Outcome #3:

Develop students' spatial reasoning and use of hand-tools to build models/robots.

CAIS Student Outcome #4:

Visit local and regional innovative manufacturing centers on a regular basis.

CAIS Student Outcome #5:

Provide students six internships during the junior and senior year (career exploration/work readiness).

Enroll Now: If you would like your young adult to be prepared for BOTH work in manufacturing/trades, AND college in an academic environment rich in science, mathematics, technology and hands-on learning then CAIS is for you. Enrollment cap of 50 per grade provides average class size of 25 for CAIS classes.

The idea for the Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences arose from the Oregon City School District's 2006 Future Focus meeting. Since that time the Oregon City School District was awarded a Charter School Planning Grant to develop the community partnerships and design the school's academic foundation. Our community partners, represented in our current board of directors, are members of a variety of local companies and organizations that are committed to strengthening the connection between school, work, and community.



Listen to interview with Inessa from KINK's Morning show and Ginger Redlinger from CAIS

 

Curriculum Focus

The Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences will create a work-site environment in an academic setting. Students will experience science, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and technology as they discover how knowledge is used to create work settings, develop solutions and to improve products. Students complete graded, project-based work orders that require them to demonstrate that they can learn while they are solving problems.

Students are expected to achieve fluency in the use of ratio and proportion, measurement, algebra, coordinate geometry, and trigonomic ratios. Basic chemistry, physics, and biology must be understood by all students as well as principals of engineering design. The history of the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe will be learned through the lens of economic, political, diplomatic, military and social history.

Oregon City High School Partnership

Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences students will spend the majority of their first two years on the OCHS campus. Oregon City High School received an “Outstanding” ranking on the Oregon Department of Education Annual Report Card, which is based in part on the results of 10th grade student tests scores. CAIS students will acquire academic foundations at OCHS. During their first two years, they will also complete projects in the CAIS Learning Lab where they will engage in career exploration, learn about LEAN Manufacturing principles, green energy, networking, job readiness, field trips, and build scale models using a variety of materials. Once students achieve basic proficiency in all areas, they can select AP or Honors classes at OCHS, or take academic courses at Clackamas Community College while completing internships.

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