Eastern Technical High School

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Eastern Technical High School
"A School Like No Other"
School type	Public high school
Established	1970
School Mascot	Maverick
Location	Essex, MD, 21221
Information	410-887-0190
Website	http://www.easttech.org

Eastern Technical High School is a Blue Ribbon school located in Essex, Baltimore County, Maryland. The school has been a center for vocational and technical skills since the 1970s. Along with their regular classes, students enrolled at this magnet school participate in a career major of their choosing. Majors include Engineering, Information Technology, Allied Health, Construction Technology. The school also features a variety of sports teams for both girls and boys. Eastern Technical High School used to be known as Eastern Vocational Technical High School, but due to lack of participation in the vocational program and an increased demand for technology education, the vocational program was removed and the school renamed.

1 Athletics
2 Career majors
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Athletics

Eastern Technical High School is known for the success of several of its sports teams.

With no home track, Eastern Tech produced a State Champion 110m hurdler in 2005. In 2006, Eastern Technical won State Championships Boys and Girls long jump, Boys 400 meter run, Girls triple jump and 1600 meter run. In 2005 the Varsity Baseball Team won the schools first ever State Championship and just a few months later the Girls Varsity Soccer Team Won the second. ^[1]

Built originally as a middle school, Eastern Tech lacks the number of fields that many high schools have and, as a result, many teams practice on other campuses around the Essex area, such as the neighboring Kenwood High School or CCBC Essex. The school's mascot is the Maverick.

[edit] Career majors

Although no longer a vocational school, all students attending the school have a career major class during their sophomore, junior, and senior years. The majors offered at Eastern are: Allied Health, Automotive, Business, Communications/Multimedia and Design, Computer Aided Drafting (Discontinued beginning in Fall 2007), Construction, Culinary, Engineering, Information Technology, Law, and Teaching Education. In previous years some programs such as the Engineering major required students to begin career major classes in their freshman year. However that practice has recently been abandoned to give all students a chance to experience the "swing". This course allows students to spend a few weeks at a time in classes pertaining to each major in order to aid in their career choice. However, the "swing" class is going to be discontinued as of Fall 2007. Students saw the class as a free period; even more than Business. In the present, Eastern Technical High School remains a Blue Ribbon School. "A School Like No Other."