HARDIN COUNTY SCHOOLS EARLY COLLEGE AND CAREER CENTER WILL HOST OPEN HOUSE AUGUST 4

The HCS Early College and Career Center is located at 200 University Drive in Elizabethtown.
The Hardin County Schools Early College and Career Center (EC3) will host an Open House for students and parents of students that will attend EC3 in the 2014-15 school year on August 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
Each of the district’s three high schools (Central Hardin High School, John Hardin High School and North Hardin High School) will hold an Open House that evening as well. Those will take place from 6 to 7:30 pm.
“Our intent is for students and parents to receive schedules at their home school and then come to EC3 to get a preview of the new classrooms there,” EC3 Principal Dan Robbins said. “We are excited to open the doors to the Hardin County Schools Early College and Career Center on August 6.”
Nearly 500 students from the district’s three high schools will attend the center. They will either attend EC3 in the morning and return to their home school in the afternoon or take classes at their home school in the morning and attend EC3 in the afternoon. Students will take courses in one of seven pathways. The pathways are comprised of courses in health science, engineering (the Project Lead the Way curriculum), advanced manufacturing, automotive technology, information technology, welding and culinary arts.
Students will also have the ability to take dual credit courses at the adjacent Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. They can also choose to be enrolled in dual credit courses with Western Kentucky University or Sullivan University.
“Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Jerry Abramson called EC3 the most dynamic educational partnership in Kentucky’s history,” Robbins added. “Students can sit in EC3 and take classes for college credit at WKU via the distance learning labs there. We have articulation agreements that will allow our students to be well ahead of their peers on their first day of college or technical school training. Our students will be using real-life experiences to solve real-world problems on the first day of school. We are beyond excited.”