Perhaps you harken back to the days of "Voc Ed" where "shop classes" were for non-academics who learned better "using their hands" and who were "not college material". Any truths (or half-truths in my opinion) that once lay in those beliefs have been eviscerated by technology and the modern workplace.

Each winter, the Jim Burke Education Foundation accepts 32 high achieving, high school juniors to participate in the Ford Dimension and Dream Builders leadership program through the end of their senior year.

Hundreds of ROC students began their community internships this week, but two lucky (and talented) Pharmacy Tech students were able to score a rare first semester internship which, although now coming to an end, is leading to new opportunties.

August 2019 seems a long way off to many high school students, but for those sophomores and juniors hoping to enroll in one of ROC's 31 programs to be offered next year, it can't come soon enough. Many of those students got a January sneak preview of the campus at our second annual ROC Tour event.

The ROC Robotics field trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also commonly referred to JPL, gave students an insight on what and how engineering is incorporated in the astronomical field. The employees expressed their passion and what they did and how prodigious the role of the engineer may be.