The Sugar-Salem Diggers got digging for the new Career Technical Education Center

SUGAR CITY – High schoolhouse students northbound of Rexburg will soon person nan opportunity to study nan trades while still successful school.

Local schoolhouse officials and elected leaders gathered successful Sugar City Friday greeting to break crushed connected nan Career Technical Education Center, a caller schoolhouse building successful Sugar-Salem School District 322.

The CTE building will service precocious schoolhouse students, pinch nan anticipation of opening it up to big evening classes done nan College of Eastern Idaho.

The caller building, to beryllium built connected 1 Digger Drive, unfastened doors for students to study auto-tech, welding and certified nursing adjunct programs, according to District Superintendent Jared Jenks. He told EastIdahoNews.com that successful nan future, they want to connection different programs, including emergency aesculapian technician training.

“Opportunities for learning are vastly different coming than they were 20 years ago,” Jenks said. “As in-demand careers change, nan schoolhouse territory must besides beryllium moldable to meet nan evolving acquisition needs and profession opportunities for students.”

Second turning of ungraded for nan Career Technical Education Center. | Isabella Sosa-Salazar, EastIdahoNews.com

Community partners will lend instrumentality and donations to respective of nan CTE’s programs. Madison Memorial Hospital and Mountain View Hospital will thief pinch nan CNA program. Taylor Chevrolet, Stone’s and Woody Smith Ford will thief pinch nan auto-tech programs.

“We cognize that not each student wants to spell to college, and we want to springiness them each opportunity to beryllium successful,” said Kristin Galbraith, chairwoman of District 322 Board of Trustees.

The CTE building will beryllium astatine 17,000-square-feet connected 2.1 acres. The building will beryllium complete pinch 4 classrooms, 2 shops and an agency space.

Rendering of nan Career Technical Education Center | Isabella Sosa-Salazar, EastIdahoNews.com

The building costs $3.9 cardinal to complete. The Idaho Career Ready Students Grant awarded $2.7 million, and nan remaining costs is covered by saved up territory funds.

“This installation is simply a beacon to education,” Galbraith said. “It’s going to beryllium a span that bridges world acquisition and hands-on learning that will hole and equip our students for early acquisition and for early occurrence successful their lives.”

Construction is scheduled for completion successful August 2025.