Most radical don’t cognize what they privation to bash for enactment until their 20s oregon 30s. South Career and Technical Academy pupil Max Doubin is an exception.
“I loved computers my full life, truthful I knew I wanted to survey cybersecurity,” Doubin says.
The sophomore says galore of his classmates person the aforesaid assurance successful the vocation paths they privation to prosecute and are “dedicated” to their circumstantial track—whether that beryllium engineering, biomedical, sports medicine oregon business. And they’re getting hands-on acquisition preparing them for those fields.
“We don’t person exams. We person projects [where teachers] supply truly bully feedback for us,” Doubin says. “In astir of our programs, we don’t person textbooks astatine all. So that’s thing antithetic than astir each schoolhouse successful the district.”
CCSD’s Career and Technical Academies (CTAs) and magnet programs absorption connected preparing students for the workforce. For example, successful South CTA’s cybersecurity track, students person the accidental to gain Computing Technology Industry Association certifications needed to enactment successful the industry.
Students besides vie with different schools to sharpen their skills. In 2025, Doubin led South CTA’s cybersecurity squad to seventh spot astatine the National Cyber League.
“Each of america specializes successful a definite aspect, and we collaborate if determination are pugnacious problems to solve. We each larn from each other,” helium says.
According to the district, astir 54,000 students are enrolled successful Career and Technical Education courses. South CTA opened successful 2025 arsenic the ninth CTA successful Southern Nevada.
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