Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School

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Address
Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School
5050 Sweppenheiser Drive Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815
Information
Principal	Dr. Thomas Rushton
Director	Cosmas Curry
Chief custodian	Thomas Sitler
Homepage	http://www.cmvt.us

Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School is located in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. It is a full-time area vocational-technical school that serves the youth of Columbia and Montour counties in Pennsylvania. CMAVTS offers 17 different training areas to secondary students in grades 9 through 12. In ninth grade, students are put through an exploratory program where they go through 4 different programs through the course of a school year. In tenth grade they choose their "major" to focus on, up until graduation in 12th grade.

Columbia-Montour AVTS's mission is to provide quality vocational education programs and the necessary supportive academic and extra-curricular programs to secondary students of all ability levels.

1 Programs
2 The School
3 Participating School Districts
4 External links

[edit] Programs

Construction
- Building Trades Maintenance
- Carpentry and Construction
- Electrical Occupations
- Plumbing / Heating / Air Conditioning
Technology
- Computer Technology
- Drafting and Design Technology
- Electrical Occupations
- Electronics Technology
- Printing Technology
Transportation and Manufacturing
- Automobile Mechanics
- Automotive Repair Refinishing
- Machining Technology
- Welding Technology
Service
- Cosmetology
- Food Preparation
- Printing Technololgy
- Health Occupations
- Horticulture / Floriculture
- Travel, Lodging and Marketing

[edit] The School

The school is an extension of the educational programs of the seven participating school districts. The option of vocational education at the Columbia-Montour AVTS gives students a full range of educational choices.
Aside from the traditional student, they also offer education options to adults with evening and summers with their adult education classes.