Career Academy

Career Academy Students Engage with Employers at Career Fair The Atlantis Career Academies hosted a Career Fair on Friday, April 26th, bringing 26 industry partners from Fall River and the South Coast onto campus for a morning of career exploration and networking. Juniors and seniors made their way around the Atlantis Student Center, speaking to representatives from the organizations to learn about some of the career opportunities that await them after they are done with school. Career fairs give students a unique opportunity to interact with industry professionals and learn more about different career paths so they can make informed decisions [...]

Career Academy students hope people will roll up their sleeves to help save a life. On May 10th, the Career Academies will host the first Atlantis Charter High School Blood Drive for the American Red Cross. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood or platelets and most of us will need blood in our lifetime. The average red blood cell transfusion is approximately three units, but a single car accident victim can require as many as 100 units of blood. This, coupled with the fact that red blood cells must be used within 42 days or less—and platelets must [...]

Medical Academy Students Learn Real-World Career Skills During Bioskills Lab at Cape Cod CPR Seniors, juniors, and sophomores in the Medical Academy got to see first-hand how the human heart and lungs function during a field trip to Cape Cod CPR in South Yarmouth. Medical Academy instructor Jennifer Santos also teaches EMT courses at Cape Cod CPR, so she arranged for her students to travel to the Cape for the day to attend a bioskills lab at the facility. The team at Cape Cod CPR set up three stations for students: a cardiac station, a pulmonary station, and an ambulance station. [...]

New Video Wall Makes a Bold Statement in Upper School "The kids love seeing their pictures up there," said IT Manager Mike Dauphin, referring to the school's new video wall. Standing 9 feet tall and 16 feet wide, it is the crowning jewel of the Upper School cafeteria. The wall is comprised of 16 55-inch TV screens and can be completely customizable to share information with the school community. On any morning you can look up at the screen, located over the food service line, and see that week's lunch menu, school announcements, sports schedules, photos, videos and more.  "It's a [...]

Atlantis Internships Give Students Real-World Work Experience, Leading to Future Opportunities “I would like to work in a school district as a pediatric occupational therapist and work with kids with special needs,” said Sarah Moniz, a senior in the Medical Academy. Six Atlantis seniors participated in paid internships at Lower School through DESE's HSSIEP program. Moniz will be attending Worcester State University this fall in the accelerated master’s program for occupational therapy. To help prepare for this next step, she interned in Ms. Patterson’s 2nd grade inclusion classroom, a general education classroom where students with and without learning differences [...]

Money Matters: Students Get a Lesson in Practical Money Skills  Imagine you're a 25-year-old professional making $45,000 per year. Using your monthly salary, savings, and credit cards, could you purchase everything you need to live as an adult? That was the challenge posed to Atlantis 11th and 12th graders during the Credit for Life Fair held on January 26 in the Upper School Student Center. For more than a decade, Credit for Life has taught Massachusetts high school students about real-life budgeting and money management. This is the first time Atlantis has hosted the event on campus since before the pandemic. [...]

STEM Students Design and Sell Custom 3D-Printed Products at Tritons Print Shop  There is more than just food to buy at lunch these days at Atlantis Charter School. The Upper School cafeteria is now home to the Tritons’ Print Shop. Students in the STEM Academy are busy creating an assortment of custom-designed 3D printed items to sell to students and staff. STEM Academy instructor Jared Booker came up with the idea to build enthusiasm for the program. “We want to get students excited about the class,” said Jared Booker. “In the past, we used our 3D printers to print pipe fittings. [...]

Atlantis receives 4th Innovation Pathway designation Atlantis received its fourth Innovation Pathway (IP) designation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recently approved Atlantis’s application for an Information IP designation for the Arts, Culture and Design Academy. To satisfy DESE’s requirements for an Information IP designation, the Arts, Culture, and Design Academy placed a new emphasis on product design, offering a personalized introduction to the integrated product design process which is based in part off MIT’s Integrated Design Management (IDM) program. Students in grades 11 and 12 will complete courses centered around project-based, real-world problems [...]