Upper Valley Joint Vocational School abbreviated Upper Valley JVS is a vocational school in Piqua, Ohio. The school educates adult and high school students train in to get experience needed to get a professional job.
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Location
Upper valley JVS is located at 8811 Career Dr., Piqua, Ohio 45356 right next door to Edison Community College. In addition to the main campus, there are several Adult Division facilities.
Those facilities include
- Applied Technology Center - Piqua, Ohio
- Stouder Center - Troy, Ohio
- Garbry Conference and Learning Center - Piqua, Ohio
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About the School
Upper Valley JVS is a vocational school designed to train students in a variety of skills. Having a location in Ohio they are surrounded by companies in the manufacturing industry. Upper Valley JVS serves approximately 900 students in 29 career-technical programs offered on the main campus. In addition, Upper Valley JVS offers many satellite programs in 14 associate schools. These satellite programs serve many thousands of students in grades nine through twelve. In addition to the 29 career programs offered by the school Upper Valley JVS also offers the necessary academic curriculum that is required for graduation with a diploma. The school has many internal organizations such as Skills USA, Bots IQ, FCCLA, FEA and an exclusive club called DBC (Driftwood Boys Club) in which only a select few join. The School also features a restaurant that is open to the students on Tuesdays. This restaurant is referred as the Upper Valley INN. However, this in is open to the Chef Training students every day. This restaurant is owned and operated by the students of the Upper Valley JVS Chef Training Class and has all the operation permits required to run a restaurant.
History
Upper Valley JVS opened up in 1975 with a goal to teach students skills for careers in life. In 1976 the school was given property of land that is now called the Willowbrook Land Laboratory. Through 35 years of education Upper Valley JVS has made news countless times on the projects and community service performed by the students of the school. Some of the news articles that have Upper valley JVS articles are Dayton Daily News, Troy Daily News, and Piqua Daily Call. As Upper Valley JVS took in more students over the years, it grew into more programs and fields of studies thus making the school become a hotspot for potential employers. In the early years of the school it did not have many programs and a major program was the HVAC which is taking off today. In addition to the many programs today, Upper Valley JVS has managed to pull in companies that hire students who either attend there or even graduate from there.
Affiliation with Other Schools
- Anna Local Schools
- Botkins Local Schools
- Western Ohio Computer Organization
- Ft. Loramie Local Schools
- Newton Local Schools
- Russia Local Schools
- Fairlawn Local Schools
- Jackson Center Local Schools
- Covington Exempted Village Schools
- Troy City Schools
- Piqua City Schools
- Houston Local Schools
- Sidney City Schools
- Bradford Local Schools
Major surrounding industries
Upper Valley JVS has multiple surrounding industries that support the school and hire students they are:
- Hartzell Propeller
- Dickman Electrical supplies
- Hobart Manufacturing
- Lord Manufacturing
- Greenwind
- Microsoft Corporation
- Emerson Climate Technologies
- Area Energy & Electric
Programs
- Administrative Office Specialist
- Allied Health
- Auto Technology
- Building and Grounds
- Business Management
- Computer Aided Design
- Computer and Information Technology
- Cosmetology
- Chef Training
- Carpentry
- Early Childhood Education
- Electronics engineer
- Graphic Arts
- HVAC
- Horticulture
- Machine Tech
- Career Exploration 9th grade
- Pre-engineering Technology
- Automotive Services
- Agriculture Business Management
- Interactive Media
- Electrical Trades
- DCT
- Career-Based Intervention
- Agricultural Diesel Mechanics
- Teacher Academy
- Welding Technology
- Aerospace Occupations
Eligibility
- students must be at least a junior
- must have passing grades.
See also
Trade school
References
- http://www.botkinsohio.com/community/schools.php
- http://www.accesswestohio.com/jvs/willowbrook.htm
- http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/3485653-1.html
- http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Upper+Valley+Joint+Vocational+School-a0113376610
- http://www.uvjvs.org/AboutUVJVS.aspx
- http://www.citytowninfo.com/school-profiles/upper-valley-joint-vocational-school
- http://www.uvjvs.org/HighSchoolEducation/Links.aspx
External links
- Upper Valley JVS Homepage
Source of article : Wikipedia
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