The I.T. Graduation will be held on Friday, May 25th 2012 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm in the Performing Arts Theatre at El Cerrito High School. Forty-six West Contra Costa high school students will be honored for their achievements within the TechFutures/Information Technology Academy program. If you are planning on attending this event, please speak to [...]

The I.T. Academy at El Cerrito High will have guest speaker, Adam Park, on Thursday, May 17, 2012 during Mr. Crosby’s 1st and 2nd block class. Adam Park is the Vice President of Exponent Partners which is an information technology consulting firm that helps nonprofits build capacity, optimize business processes, improve performance, and measure outcomes.
Exponent Partners [...]

The I.T. Academy at El Cerrito High will have guest speaker, Michael Oravec, on Thursday, May 10, 2012 during Mr. Crosby’s 1st and 2nd block class. Michael Oravec is the Business Systems Consultant for Wells Fargo in Greater Bay Area & San Francisco Bay Regions. Wells Fargo is an American multinational diversified financial services company [...]

The I.T. Academy would like to congratulate team Smash Flashers (Jake Preston, Francisco Rivera, William Luong, Ikram Pipial, and Joshue Martinez) as they made it to the semi-finals of the Pioneers in Engineering Robotics Competition. Your hard work and dedication is not only a reflection of yourselves, but also the I.T. Academy and El Cerrito [...]

The I.T. Academy would like to congratulate former student, Leeana Diaz on obtaining a Marketing Assistant position at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Leeana’s experience and knowledge from the IT Academy helped her edge out a senior student for the job. Her duties will include handling Alumni information, designing postcards, creating logo’s and coding web [...]

KPLA scholarships are for students who demonstrate – through their activities in school, in the community, or in the face of unusual circumstances – that they have the potential to be Latino Health Care Leaders of the future.
Career goals may be in any Allied Health Care area; including clinical and non-clinical services, such as medicine, [...]

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! The next few months will be filled with field trips and presentations. In December we have AT&T and Contra Costa College field trips. We will have representatives from SportsMart, Academy of Arts, and a financial workshop given by Bank of the West.
Come back and see what we have in January!!!!

Welcome to the Information Technology Academy (ITA) Program at Kennedy and El Cerrito High. The IT Academy is a small learning community that integrates core academic classes with the technology field (Web Design, Internet Networking).
Students in the IT Academy are taught by a team of teachers in both the technology field and core classes (usually English, History [...]