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Mainland High School offers a school within a school for students interested in media technologies in development and used by business and industry. The Academy of Communications and Multimedia Technology integrates required language arts and social studies courses into academy activities focusing on academic content through project based technology applications. This academy offers excellent college preparation and an orientation to career opportunities in fields such as advertising, multimedia and compact disk (CD) development, journalism and publishing, and graphic and computer arts.

In the Academy classrooms, the students develop projects on multi-media PCs that are supplemented with CD writers, scanners, printers, digital cameras, and other peripherals. The television production facet of the program provides students access to a state-of-the-art Machintosh lab as well as a fully equipped color television studio including two editing facilities and portable filming and editing equipment for on-location work.

Business partnerships play an important role in the development and implementation of this academy. National business partnerships and their areas of expertise include Walsworth, Inc., for printing and publishing; Adobe, DAZ3d, and Microsoft for digital design and software development; BellSouth for telecommunications; Hewitt-Packard for server hardware; Microsoft for server and workstation software; IBM and Gateway work stations; and Cisco Systems for the internet-working academy. Local partners include Media-Photographics for video productions and photographic services, DBCC for dual enrollment, and DirectCafe for photographic production. ERAU is an academic partner in Computer Science and Networking.

Externships with cooperating business partners are offered to students on a competitive basis. The Academy environments allows students the opportunity to consult with national and local business partners who visit this academy as well as establish relationships that lead to potential technology careers.

Courses
Academic Courses: English I, II, III, IV (honors/regular); Visions and Pursuits, Visions and Countervisions, American History, World History, Economics, American Government (honors/gifted/regular) and Business Systems Technologies (a course which introduces students to the concentration areas offered in the Academy).

Specific Courses are also offered in the following concentration areas:

For further information please contact Darrell Radford, Academy Coordinator, at (386) 258-4665 ext. 54282, at Mainland High School.

See Cisco Career Certification at http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/docs/Revere_Group.pdf