Elkhart Area Career Center and TestOut: ® Need: IT Curriculum to Give Hands-on Experience Elkhart Area Career Center (EACC) in Elkhart, Indiana, is a regional career technical high school with about one thousand students, 43 studying computer networking. Seventeen high schools in northern Indiana and southern Michigan feed into EACC, and students spend half of every school day at their high school and half at EACC. Beth Hall, computer networking teacher in the Business Technology department, has been teaching IT for 22 years at EACC. “Most of my students at EACC grew up with technology and like it. They like computers, and they’re curious what’s ‘under the hood,’” Hall said. As Hall works with the students at EACC, she emphasizes practical experience and hands-on work that will

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