This week, I had the opportunity to share a bit about the CAST story to graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Policy. It
On Thursday, CAST Schools hosted a virtual town hall in partnership with local news station KSAT12. The town hall aimed to highlight the importance of mentorships for today’s students. For
This week, 49 6th grade students from CAST Imagine, CAST’s very first middle school, toured the Arboretum San Antonio, a brand new park designed to be a place for trees
This week, CAST students performed ‘Three Years of Fear’, based on the book ‘Tafolla Toro’ by Lorenzo Gomez III. The play, put on and performed entirely by CAST students ,
This week, I want to brag about (and thank publicly) one of our board members, Rene Dominguez, the CEO of VelocityTX. Dominguez is the CEO of VelocityTX, a bioscience
This week, I had a chance to peek into classrooms at our newest campus, CAST Imagine. We are only in the second week of school, but students are already
On Thursday, September 12, CAST students will perform the play Three Years of Fear at the Patterson Center for the Performing Arts in East Central ISD. Bring your friends, family,
As CAST Schools across the network prepare for their first day of class for the 2024-25 school year, it’s important to take a look back at the summer-wide highlights from
At the CAST offices, it is a time of transition, full of sadness and joy. We’re sorry to say goodbye to our high school and college interns, who have made
This summer, CAST STEM students have been interning with Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (TMMTX). TMMTX is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, itself a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation
This week I would like to introduce you to two CAST Tech graduates, Leandro Saldaña, 2023, and Brooke Zepeda, 2022. As a teenager, Leandro loved computers, taking them apart
On Friday, July 26th, our summer interns, Kay Cansino, and Timothy Huff, hosted the annual Alumni Summer Social at Brooks Greenline Park, creating a vibrant atmosphere where alumni could reconnect
*Image courtesy of The Spectator* Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting JCB Academy, a public school in Rocester, England, created as part of the vision of a
As part of CAST’s onboarding process for new educators for this upcoming school year, CAST participates in an annual “Teacher Fest” to welcome the new teachers and introduce them to
I don’t remember precisely when in my adult life the idea that deep partnership could defy logic, so that 1+1 added up to 3, or sometimes even 5, but it
Earlier this year, CAST Schools was named a winner of Round Three of the Catalyze Challenge. The grant from the Catalyze Challenge focuses on increasing learner agency and employer-learner engagement
In 2018, shortly after we had opened CAST Tech, our first high school downtown, CAST Schools became a nonprofit organization with two employees, myself and longtime education guru Carol Mendenhall.
Recently, we have been having conversations with the young people working in our office about the topic of Youth Voice and Agency. It is a topic we discuss frequently,
At CAST, we strive to give our students ample opportunities within the workforce through our various industry partners. Over the past several months, Lancer Worldwide, a manufacturing facility with a
As part of CAST’s commitment to Student Voice and Agency, each year CAST employs students for summer internships within the CAST Network. This year is no exception, and CAST is
In May, during national Apprentice Week, CAST hosted a panel for seniors from CAST Med, CAST Tech and the Advanced Learning Academy. Employers including Accenture and the YWCA shared opportunities
In 2022, Bloomberg designed Summer Boost in response to COVID-related learning loss to support students over a five-week period in advancing academic progress in English Language Arts (ELA) and math
This past week, CAST Lead High School has been hosting its “Summer Studio” camp, where students can engage in hands-on project-based learning to prepare them for the upcoming school year.
CAST opened its first school, CAST Tech High School, in 2017, and we incorporated as a nonprofit with 2 employees in 2018. Since that time, we have grown to a
The Centers for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) Network is a tax-exempt organization as described in Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Service code. CAST Schools are partnership schools with a focus on STEM careers, project based learning and work-based learning. Key partners include public school districts, higher education institutions, and local employers from target industries.
