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Tampa Bay Technical High School is a high school located in the School District of Hillsborough County, offering several different programs including the Academy of Health Professions, the Academy of Architecture, and numerous vocational/technical programs.

Tampa Bay Technical High School was established in 1969 at 6410 Orient Road Tampa, Florida 33610. The students and faculty often refer to it as "Tech" or "TBT."

The school mascot is the Titan.

Vision Statement

Each student is given the opportunity to earn a high school diploma while acquiring technical skills to assure the foundation of future success.

Mission Statement

We, at Tampa Bay Technical High School, will use the cooperative team approach to jointly coordinate instruction and provide a nurturing environment to assure student success. We guarantee opportunities for students, faculty, parents, and community in planning, implementing, and evaluating the programs to ensure that state of the art technical and educational opportunities exist for all students. We emphasize pride, work ethic and good citizenship in school and community.

Faculty and Staff

The principal is Christopher Farkas.

Programs Offered

Tampa Bay Tech is a magnet and technical school featuring numerous programs:

Technology Programs

Magnet Programs

Athletics

Tampa Bay Tech has went 0-10 in football in 2006 and 2005. At many times students say "the JV team is better than the varsity."

Academy of Health

The Health program is broken up into several fields during students' senior or junior years, depending on the specialty, such as Radiology, Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy, Veterinary Assistant, Medical Laboratory, Pharmacy, Vision Specialist, Dental Care, and LPN (nursing). The LPN program requires a great deal more study than any other program, and for this reason chooses its members much sooner than any other program. Students choose which field they desire to move into and apply to these programs. The specialty has the option of refusing any student, however most students are placed in the field they desire.

Academy of Architecture

The Academy of Architecture has classes in two separate rooms, each a fully-functioning lab. The students learn fundamental skills about the architecture field and practice computer-aided design as well as manual drafting. Students enter several contests throughout the year e.g. a local drafting and design competition at the strawberry festival, national drafting and design competitions with SkillsUSA, and the West Point Bridge Design Contest.

Ronald Brill

Ronald Brill instructs freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. His classroom is partitioned, dividing it into two sections. One section seats students at traditional school desks, while the other section is home to a CAD lab consisting of twenty student computer terminals and a network printer for student use.

David Carrier

David Carrier teaches juniors once daily, as well as seniors for two periods each day. This classroom is significantly larger, and it is therefore in this space that students create scale models. This lab also contains two dozen computers for student use. The desks in this room are designed to facilitate manual drafting, an important part of the curriculum.

School of Business

Many business certificates can be earned in fields such as Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, and Web Design.

Club Involvement

Clubs are plentiful in the school and some nationwide clubs include chapters at Tampa Bay Tech. Clubs are divided into Career, Service, Interest and Honors Clubs. Career and Service Clubs meet on the same day, and Interest and Honors Clubs meet on the same days. These list are incomplete:

Career Clubs

HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America)
FFA (Future Farmers of America)
FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America)
SkillsUSA

Service Clubs

Key Club

Interest Clubs

Gay-Straight Alliance
Photography Club
Drama Club
Student Government
Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Honors Clubs

National Honor Society
Spanish National Honor Society
National Technical Honor Society
National Beta Club
Mu Alpha Theta
Model United Nations
Senior Senate
Junior Senate
Sophomore Senate

NJROTC

Tampa Bay Tech's NJROTC is headed by Master Chief Stuthers USN(ret.) and Commander DeMartini USN(ret.). Starting the school year of 2007-2008, there will be a new Commander to replace DeMartini, who is retiring. The NJROTC at Tampa Bay Tech has earned various distinctions including the Unit Achievement award three times in a row. The goal of this NJROTC unit is to achieve distinguished unit, which is awarded yearly by the area 7 manager, Commander Dirk Herbert. It is the highest award that the unit as a whole can obtain. In the year of 2006-2007, the unit achieved this goal for the first time. The unit was very happy, even though the school year as a whole didn't go as well as planned. =l The new commanding officer for the 2007-2008 school year is Scott Muir. The executive officer is Marlana Campbell. The Command Master Chief is Samantha Janssen.

Class Offerings

Advanced Placement

The Advanced Placement Program, commonly known as Advanced Placement, or AP, is a United States and Canada-based program that offers high school students the opportunity to receive university credit for their work during high school, as well as a standard measure of achievement in a particular course. The following AP courses are offered at TBT:

AP Art History
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP Chemistry
AP English Language and Composition
AP English Literature and Composition
AP Human Geography
AP Psychology
AP Spanish
AP Statistics
AP US History
AP World History

The following AP courses have been proposed as likely to be taught next year:

AP Calculus BC
AP Environmental Science

Dual Enrollment

The following is a partial (incomplete) list of dual enrollment courses offered at TBT. These courses award credit in both high school and Hillsborough Community College:

Freshman English
US History
History of Western Civilization

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-We, at Tampa Bay Technical High School, will use the cooperative team approach to jointly coordinate instruction and provide a nurturing environment to assure student success. We guarantee opportunities opportunities for students, faculty, parents, and community in planning, implementing, and evaluating the programs to ensure that state of the art technical and educational opportunities exist for all students. We emphasize pride, work ethic and good citizenship in school and community.
+We, at Tampa Bay Technical High School, will use the cooperative team approach to jointly coordinate instruction and provide a nurturing environment to assure student success. We guarantee opportunities for students, faculty, parents, and community in planning, implementing, and evaluating the programs to ensure that state of the art technical and educational opportunities exist for all students. We emphasize pride, work ethic and good citizenship in school and community.
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