Mitchell Almonte, right, teaches a Construction Tech class. Photo: Nicole Craine/New York Times
Brooklyn Navy Yard, now a technology and manufacturing hub with more than 400 companies, is the site of a new public high school, reports Winnie Hu in the New York Times. Brooklyn STEAM Center “was developed with industry leaders to teach real-life job skills.”
Today, 221 juniors and seniors spend half the day at other high schools taking required academic classes, and the other half at the center specializing in one of five tracks: design and engineering; computer science and information technology; film and media; construction technology; and culinary arts and hospitality management.
. . . Students have been placed in 63 paid internships so far, half of which were with companies in the Navy Yard.
Most students plan to go to college.
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