Howard Vocational Technical High School

Most often business and computer facilities are monitored by highly skilled Computer Professionals. This skilled worker is a member of one of the most challenging and rewarding career paths in today's High Tech Workplace. If you like computers, technology, and helping people maintain productivity the Computer Network Administration Program at Howard High School of Technology is for you.

Occupation Description: Install, configure, and support an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet system or a segment of a network system. Maintain network hardware and software. Monitor networks to ensure network availability to all system users and perform the necessary maintenance to support network availability. Network Administrators may supervise other network support & client server specialists and plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures.

Related jobs within the Network Administration Career Cluster:

» Computer Network Administration Program (CNAP) Job Descriptions (.pdf)

EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS


	*Five of ten top ten growth professions in Delaware are in the Computer Information Technologies field*

Network and Computer Systems Administrators Earnings

» Average Annual Entry Wage $43,447

» Average Annual Wage $63,266

GRADE LEVEL TRAINING

10th Grade

Students careers are jump started with hands-on Computer Hardware and Network Construction exercises. Students will also install and maintain Windows XP Desktop Operating Systems. Along with technical skills; interpersonal skills, customer relations, and workplace ethics are constantly reinforced.

Our First Year is a balance of instructor discussions followed by hands-on lab experiences.

Students will Job Shadow with an Industry Partner.

11th Grade

Students Hardware Focus will change from a single machine to a networked environment. What type of hardware is needed to connect the machines within a company or across the Internet? How does the network equipment communicate? Students will install and configure Windows servers. Activities include: domain controllers, web and ftp servers, backup, security, and TCP/IP.

Students will participate in Job Practicum with an Industry Partner.

12th Grade

Students will continue to configure and maintain Windows Servers. Students will work in small groups and independently performing maintenance and troubleshooting operations on the systems to include setup and testing of wireless systems.

Students will finalize their their previous Web Page lab work by building and maintaining their own Web Site and Web Server in the classroom.

Students will analyze customer service & workplace ethics to prepare for the world of work.

12th Grade Employment

With the Career Instructor recommendation, the student will participate in the co-operative education phase of the Computer Network Administration Program.

Co-op students attend academic classes at Howard in the morning and go to work with one of our industry partners in the afternoon.

Students can play sports while participating in the co-operative education program at HHST.

COLLEGE BOUND

	University of Delaware		Wilmington College
	Delaware Technical Institute		Lehigh University
	University of Pennsylvania		Virginia Tech
	Marywood University		Johnson and Wales

STUDENT SUCCESS 2006 - 2007

	HHST Co-Valedictorian 2007 class
	HHST Valedictorian 2006 class
	Girls Volleyball Captain
	BPA nationals in Computer Networking
	Each graduate: Industry Certification
	Each graduate College Acceptance
	VICA - State Inter networking Team
	Each senior worked co-op senior year
	Sports Participation: track - football - basketball - baseball - volleyball

COMPUTER NETWORK ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM

Antonio Bianco - Computer Networking Instructor

Howard High School of Technology
401 E. 12th Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19081

Phone: 302-571-5409, ext 305
Fax: 302-571-5483

Email: abianco@nccvt.k12.de.us

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Dawnn Dickerson - Computer Networking Instructor

Howard High School of Technology
401 E. 12th Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19081

Email: dawnn.dickerson@nccvt.k12.de.us