Knox County Career Center Schools

There will be a Knox County Career Center Records Commission meeting at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, June 25 at 2:00 pm.

KCCC Senior Awards Ceremony Thursday, May 22 6:00 pm at MVNU's Ariel Arena (MVNU's official address is 800 Martinsburg Road) Please enter MVNU via Martinsburg Road or Mount Vernon Avenue. Please follow the signs back to Ariel Arena. KCCC staff members will be on site to direct you where to park. We have handicap accessible parking as well. We look forward to celebrating the Class of 2025 with you!! *We will have a video link for the Senior Awards Ceremony that we will post to our social media outlets and send via a FinalForms email tomorrow (Thursday). Thank you!

Kokosing representatives visited with Building Trades students on Thursday during lab. Kokosing paid for hard hats, safety glasses, and gloves for each of our juniors and seniors in Building Trades and also paid for their fees for the lab. We appreciate their partnership and we are grateful for their support!!

KCCC's school picture day will take place on Thursday, August 28th. Picture information was emailed out to parents/guardians via FinalForms earlier this week. Picture forms were also handed out to students in English classes. Extra picture forms are available in the front office. Please email us at careereducation@knoxcc.org if you have any questions.

Students in Mrs. Metzger's science class were given different challenges and had to work in teams to construct their structure using only 20 toothpicks and 20 marshmallows in 10 minutes. Here were some of the results of this STEM challenge!

The Knox County Career Center Building Trades program recognized ten students who earned the status of “Building Trades Elite.”

Students (pictured L to R) Preston Nyhart, Ethan Hull, Sylas Lamneck, Carson Penney, Porter Nyhart, Galen Ruprecht, Brianna Goodman, Truman Chester, Madysen Cochrun, and Gage Cook all earned BT Elite at the end of the conclusion of the fourth quarter last school year. Seventy-two students from the Building Trades program have now earned “BT Elite” status since its inception.

"Building Trades Elite” (BT Elite) is a program generated by Colby Clippinger, former KCCC Building Trades instructor, and the KCCC Building Trades Advisory Council that began in 2019-2020. Joe Stallard, KCCC’s new Building Trades instructor, will continue the BT Elite program. The program’s criteria centers around attendance, discipline, industry credentialing, and extracurricular activities. A point system is set up where students earn points for attendance, grades, industry credentialing, and extracurricular activities. Students can lose points for being tardy, absent, and for discipline issues. In order to earn “BT Elite” status, students must earn 250 points and must maintain 250 points or higher until graduation to keep the “BT Elite” status.

The “BT Elite” program is completely company-sponsored. Students who earn “BT Elite” status are awarded a hoodie and an interview shirt. The companies pay for the hoodies and interview shirts. The hoodie has the Building Trades Elite crest on the back along with the company sponsors. The student’s name and “BT Elite” are on the front of the hoodie. The interview shirt has “BT Elite” and the student’s name on the front.

KCCC & the Building Trades program would like to thank the companies who sponsor “BT Elite”. Thank you to J & B Acoustical, Ohio Contractors Association, ProTech Basement Solutions, LiUNA! Local 1216, Kokosing, Corna Kokosing, Brennstuhl Construction, Modern Builders, Gray Mechanical, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 735, Holmes Rental & Sales, Meade Roofing Services, Small’s Sand & Gravel, Ellis Brothers, Igel, Ruhlin, Knox Concrete, ACP, Mack Industries, and Rietschlin Construction for partnering with us!

Chef Bruce prepared Bananas Foster for all of our students today during our three lunch periods!!! Our students enjoyed this wonderful treat. We are one full week in here at KCCC!! It's been a great start to the 2025-2026 school year!!

Wade Nissley, Aiden Hood, Charlotte St. Clair, and Brody Kerosec won the "Guess It Game" during KCCC's lunches earlier this week. Students guessed how much candy was in each bin and the winner(s) got to keep the candy. The students always enjoy a little friendly competition! Congrats, Wade, Aiden, Charlotte, and Brody!

Mrs. Marhefka, Mrs. Henry, and Mr. Bellman visited with all sophomore, junior, and senior labs the past two school days and talked to students about KCCC's Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program and celebrated student's achievements from over the summer. We are back in full swing here at KCCC!!

Mrs. Bush & Mrs. Nowicki, KCCC's school counselors, held a fun trivia game during the lunch periods today. Students were asked questions about KCCC and if they gave the correct answers they got a piece of candy. We are settling into our routines here the first few days!!

Mr. McKown, Social Studies teacher at KCCC, had a few "getting to know you" activities in class. Students played "would you rather" and another fun interactive game as they became more acquainted with each other. We are excited about the 2025-2026 school year!!!

Sophomores & juniors arrived at KCCC on Tuesday, August 12th for their first day! Teachers, staff, and administration provided an orientation, gave tours, and covered a variety of important topics with students. We are excited to be back with our students!!

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We look forward to seeing our seniors tomorrow along with having our sophomores & juniors back for day 2!!

Congratulations to Sara Wilson, senior in Landscape Design & Management and a member of KCCC's FFA chapter, on winning the Grand Champion Market Goat & Champion Born, Bred & Raised at the 2025 Hartford Fair!! Two years in a row as Grand Champion!!

Great job!! We are proud of you!!

Welcome back sophomores & juniors!! We are excited to get started today!!

The Rastin Tower and downtown pedestrian bridge in Mount Vernon were lit up in green & purple on Sunday night as we gear up to welcome students back this week!! We look forward to seeing sophomores & juniors on Tuesday and all of our students on Wednesday!

KCCC First Day of School for SO & JR is Tuesday, August 12th.
All students are back on Wednesday, August 13th.
We look forward to seeing you this week!!

Parents may drop off students between 7:30 a.m. and 7:55 a.m. in the parent concrete drop-off area by the flag pole (Parent Drop-Off Loop in black on the diagram with green arrows). Pull all the way forward, drop off your student, and pull out turning left.
Parents, please do not enter the bus loop to drop off your student, which is the blacktop drive closest to the school (purple arrows) until instructed to do so by KCCC staff after 7:55 a.m.
Preschool parents may begin using the parent drop-off loop at 7:55 a.m.

Thinking about continuing your education after high school?
Need to take the ACT for college or scholarship applications?
Take the ACT at KCCC
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cost $45.00
Register by Monday, August 25: https://forms.gle/KCcRB8mY9rti3KKU6
Pay $45.00 to KCCC with Mrs. Addair, KCCC Assistant to the Treasurer, no later than October 9.
Let your 1st - 7th period teachers know you will be taking the ACT Test the morning of October 14.

Thank you to everyone who came out to Schedule Pick Up Day at KCCC yesterday! It was great to see everyone!!
See everyone next week!!