WANIC
What is WANIC Skill Center?
WANIC Skill Center offers high quality tuition-free preparatory college and career education for high school Juniors and Seniors. These year-long, advanced-level Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are based on rigorous academic and industry standards and prepare students for career and college readiness. WANIC programs offer dual credit opportunities (both high school and college credit) and/or lead to industry certifications. Programs are designed in three period blocks allowing extended time to not only learn the theory of a subject, but to also get authentic hands-on lab experience. All classes earn Occupational/Career & Technical Education high school credits and may offer other course equivalencies towards high school graduation requirements.
WANIC operates as a cooperative consortium of seven local school districts. Member districts are: Bellevue, Issaquah, Lake Washington, Mercer Island, Northshore, Riverview, and Snoqualmie Valley. WANIC serves as a branch campus of all area high schools providing programs that would normally not be offered in every comprehensive high school due to high operative and equipment costs or not enough student enrollment at the school. Instructor to student ratio is low in several skill center programs, allowing the Skill Center staff the time to get to know each student and address their unique learning styles.
Skill Center Programs
- Aerospace Manufacturing - Core Plus
- Automotive Technology
- Aviation Technology - STEM
- Baking & Pastry
- Building Industry Technologies - CORE PLUS CONSTRUCTION
- cisco networking
- culinary arts
- dental careers
- digipen art & animation
- digipen data analytics & visualiztion cancelled 2024-25
- digipen game design
- digipen music & sound design
- digipen video game programming
- Fire & EMS
- health science careers - nursing
- maritime welding - core plus
- medical careers
- sports medicine