GACTC hosts open house for high school and adult career training programs
The Greater Altoona Career & Technology Center invites prospective high school students and adult learners to visit the GACTC during an open house on Tuesday, December 5th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. During the open house, individuals may tour the facility, learn about our high school and adult career training programs, speak with counselors and student services personnel, and more! The GACTC offers 25 programs for high school students, and many diploma and certificate programs [...]
Congratulations to our students on the GACTC Honor Roll (Q1, 2023-2024)
Congratulations to the honor roll students for their outstanding performance in the first quarter of this school year! Your dedication to learning is evident, and your well-earned positions on the honor roll are a testament to your hard work. Well done! Dwayne Giarth Rally Hoover Logan Luke Zachary Phillips Neil Brubaker Ethan Claycomb Roman Dunio Wyatt Heeter Colin Horton Levi Moyer Jacob Musselman Colin Postles Nicholas Thompson Enoch Van Egdom Addyson [...]
GACTC Students Partner with Altoona Area High School to Create and Install Sensory Garden
Students of GACTC instructor Bill Doutt's masonry program built and installed planters for the new sensory garden at Altoona Area High School. The GACTC students worked from designs and schematic drawings produced by AASD's engineering and design students in a collaborative effort to create a new calming and welcoming space that stimulates “the sense of sight, smell, touch, taste and sound” at the high school. As reported in the Altoona Mirror, “The garden also serves [...]
Events held for practical nursing graduates
The GACTC graduated 26 students from the full-time Practical Nursing program on August 17, 2023. Graduation activities included a pinning ceremony on August 15th and commencement, held on August 17th at the Altoona Area High School. The “pinning ceremony,” a symbolic welcoming of new nurses into the profession, can be dated as far back as the 12th century, and became standard in the United States by 1916. During the ceremony, students are pinned by nursing [...]
GACTC celebrates graduates from Expanded Function Dental Assistant and Medical Assistant programs
On August 10, 2023, the GACTC celebrated the accomplishments of nine postsecondary students that successfully completed the Expanded Function Dental Assistant or Medical Assistant diploma programs. Collectively, our nine graduates completed more than 11,112 training hours in these programs; our Expanded Function Dental Assistant (EFDA) students participated in 480 hours of clinical experiences with local dental offices, and our Medical Assistant students end their coursework with a 240-hour clinical externship with a local medical [...]
Practical Nursing Graduate Continues Success
Bridget Montgomery, LPN, a 2022 graduate of the GACTC Practical Nursing program, was awarded the 2023 Donald and Nancy Devorris Nursing Scholarship in May 2023. Bridget is completing a Bachelor’s degree in registered nursing with Mount Aloysius College, an endeavor she started while enrolled in the practical nursing program. Prior to her graduation in August 2022, Bridget was the recipient of a scholarship from the Pennsylvania Association of Practical Nursing Administrators (PAPNA) from the central [...]
