Registration is open for STEM/CTE Summer Camps. These camps are open to all students. However, current and entering STAT students who wish to register for Programming and Robotics have first preference. This camp fills quickly, so please register early to insure you can participate. Unfortunately, Advanced Programming and Robotics will not be offered this summer.
 
Most of the STEM camps are open to younger students, so please feel free to share information about STEM/CTE Camps with rising 5th through 8th graders. Please click here to download the registration form for STEM/CTE Camps.

Selection of the incoming STAT Class of 2017 (students entering high school as 9th graders this coming fall) is completed. All applicants have been notified that they were either accepted, wait-listed or not accepted. Accepted students must provide a response in order for their enrollment to be processed by the high school counselors. Wait-listed students will be contacted based on their rank in the wait-list, as space becomes available. 

In the News! Stafford Academy for Technology students in the IT program at Brooke Point High School collaborated with the Video and Media Technology interns from Brooke Point. The product was a video for the Virginia Department of Education to encourage the use of Career Clusters by students to organize their educational and career planning. Click here for the Information Technology page at the Virginia Department of Education web site, where you can view the video produced by intern Shawn Austin.

Stafford Academy for Technology (STAT) is a state-approved Governor’s STEM Academy.  STAT is a four-year college-prep program of study utilizing integrated hands-on, project-based instruction focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) career areas. (STEM includes medical fields). The STAT instructional team includes teachers from sciences,  technology, English, and mathematics.  STAT is open to rising ninth graders on an application basis. The program is half-day. Bus transportation from the base school to the program school is provided.

STAT offers students the advantage of learning in a "cohort" of like-minded students throughout the four-year program. They will also "loop" with the same teachers whenever possible, creating a more coherent and personal learning experience.  Students will undertake service-learning projects and partner with mentors in the business community to build a stronger sense of purpose and a firmer commitment to success in college education, while learning about the demands of the workplace.  Students will undertake a senior research project.

While STAT serves as an excellent preparation for students who look to careers in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics field, it will also help any student develop a powerful foundation for further learning and high-skill employment.  The STAT model is designed to go beyond the ordinary high school experience, and cultivate skills acknowleged to be essential in the 21st century workplace:

• using systems thinking and solving problems
• communicating clearly and collaborating with others
• accessing, evaluating and managing information
• adapting to change
• working independently and gaining expertise as a self-directed learner
• valuing diversity
• showing accountability
• leading and respecting others

STAT is an academically and technically demanding program that will prepare students for success in virtually any field of college study.

Applications are due to the student's middle school counseling office no later than Thursday, March 28. Students must demonstrate interest in the program area to which they are applying; selection is based on grades, teacher recommendations, attendance, SOL scores, activities and the statement of interest.