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Don’t Wait Until Tomorrow to Fast-Track Your Future
With each passing day, we move into a more expansive, innovative, and immersive reality. Do you dream of engineering a high-tech, progressive future? Are you fascinated with machines, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence? If this sounds like you, then you might want to plug into a career in robotics and robotics engineering. This fascinating robotics program offers computer-driven and tech-obsessed students a strong entryway into both a college degree and a career path in this well-paying, always-evolving and fast-growing industry. Students can get a head start on a fast track to an exciting and innovative future…today.
What You'll Learn
From 9th grade upward, enroll in A-G approved courses to start preparing for your career in the Engineering/robotics industry. Classes include:
- CTE Concentrator Robotics (Year 1)
- CTE Capstone Robotics Honors (Year 2)
What You’ll Do
Take what you’re learning in the classroom into the real world and experience for yourself all that awaits you in the forever-fascinating and ever-evolving engineering/robotics industry. Immersive and insightful experiences include:
- Robotics competitions
- Field trips to trade shows, local industry partners, and colleges to explore potential career paths
- Community outreach
Who You Can Be
Kickstart your career path with top-tier academic instruction and industry-leader insights. The robotics program prepares you for potential careers such as:
- Robotics Designer
- Robotics Repair Tech
- Engineer
- Industrial Designer
- Computer Programmer
- Computer Scientist
- Marketing and Business
- Data Scientist
Industry Average Wages: $54,000–$150,000
Projected Industry Growth: 11-13%
What You Need to Know
VUSD’s Robotics CTE pathway offers students (9th grade and up) a fast-track to a degree and career in the high-growth, high-tech industry of robotics and robotics engineering. Students learn a wide range of skills and dive deep into several disciplines in this program — including robotics, engineering, programming, business and marketing, manufacturing, industrial design, and more. The program is based at Ventura High School during 6th period and consists of two sequenced year-long courses, a concentrator followed by a capstone that earns honors credit. This pathway is open to students from all VUSD high schools, space permitting, and transportation to VHS can be provided if needed.
The class is run in a fashion similar to a working small business, providing students with a true advantage and edge as they prepare for an exciting career in a fast-growing field. Additionally, students benefit from a strong connection to a wide range of local robotics-related businesses and projects, with the marketing and business-focused students tasked with expanding this network.
The class also ventures out to exciting, informative off-site experiences such as robotics competitions and trade shows. Robotics is an industry that is aggressively expanding year-to-year, and the experience provided in this program can lead to a wide range of career opportunities in various industries, including programming, manufacturing, electronic engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more.
Once you have gained the skills and knowledge in this pathway, there are many options for your next steps after high school - some you can even begin pursuing before you graduate!
1 Year
Electronics Engineering Technology, Certificate - Moorpark College
Mechatronics Engineering Technology, Certificate - Moorpark College
2 Year
Associate in Science, Computer Networking Information Technology - Oxnard College
Associate in Science, Advanced Manufacturing - Ventura College
4 Year
Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - California State University, Channel Islands
Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo