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Whether they want to learn a trade so they can get a head start on a career or learn skills so they don’t have to pay someone else to fix things in their own homes, area high school students can take various workforce training programs at Barton Community College at no tuition cost through a state-funded program called “Excel in CTE (SB155)”, which aims to increase interest in trade-based careers.

Students from Barton’s chapter of HOSA (Future Health Professionals) joined about 12,500 students in Houston, Texas earlier this summer at the 2024 International Leadership Conference (ILC), where they competed against students from all 50 states as well as students from China, American Samoa, South Korea, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.