2026 KACTE Summer Program

2026 KACTE Summer Program

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7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast East Tower - 2nd Floor Conference Registration Grand Hall - East Tower - 2nd Floor

8:00am EDT

CTE Summer Program Opening Session Ballroom B and C - East - 2nd Floor

10:00am EDT

ATC Principals Update Session Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Ag-Ed Program Update Ballroom B and C - East - 2nd Floor Meeting with Marisa Duarte Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Business and Marketing Updates and Opening Session Archibald - West - 3rd Floor AP Cybersecurity and AP Networking Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Beyond the Classroom: The KINETIC Externship Experience Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Powering the Pipeline: Computer Science Updates Holly - West - 3rd Floor Construction Programs Update Lily - West - 2nd Floor Engineering Tech Ed Program Update Sampson - East - 1st Floor Back-to-School Updates: What’s New in FCS + FCCLA Cochran - West - 3rd Floor Healthcare and HOSA Update Session French - East - 3rd Floor Kentucky JROTC Update Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Law and Public Safety (LPS) Program Update Session Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Manufacturing Update Session Willow - West - 3rd Floor C.S.I. (Counselor Sessions and Information) Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Teaching and Learning 26-27 Program Area Updates Laffoon - East - 1st Floor Transportation Program Updates Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor CTE Meeting Place

11:00am EDT

Get Certified in the Industry Certification Lab! Coe - East - 3rd Floor

11:30am EDT

Lunch East Tower - 2nd Floor Industry & Innovators Luncheon (RSVP Required) Holly - West - 3rd Floor Midday Mingle with Health Science/HOSA French - East - 3rd Floor Law and Public Safety (LPS) Resource Exploration Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor A Toast to Teaching: Celebrating our Year in Teaching and Learning (RSVP Required) Laffoon - East - 1st Floor FCS Nook Nunn - East - 2nd Floor

12:00pm EDT

Growing Leaders in CTE: Discover the KACTE Fellows Program Fields - East - 3rd Floor

1:00pm EDT

Business Partner Panel Q and A Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Agriscience Fair Through the Year: What can I do incorporate the Agriscience Fair as an Intracurricular part of any Curriculum? Cochran - West - 3rd Floor Growing Ag Education Together with Ag Commissioner Jonathan Shell and Bethany Mattingly Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor AI as a Professional Support Tool: Practical AI Tools for CTE Teachers Beckham - East - 3rd Floor JCPS (only) CTE Teachers Institute Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor Recognizing, Reporting, and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor Classroom Tools for Teaching Hospitality, Travel, Tourism, and Related Subjects Willis - East - 2nd Floor Implementing Stukent "Mimic Personal Finance" Simulation in your classroom Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Teaching Business In a "Concrete" Way Clements - East - 2nd Floor The Benefits of Adding the High School of Business Pathway Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Upgrade Your School Store - Growing Beyond Expectations McCreary - East - 3rd Floor The Modern HVAC/R Tech - A Career That's Really Heating Up Lily - West - 2nd Floor CAD and CAM with Autodesk Fusion Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Earning Industry Certifications with Onshape and REC Sampson - East - 1st Floor Culinary Competitions: Opportunities for Student Chefs to Shine Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Finger Paints and Future Careers: Making Sense of ECE-TRIS Stanley - East - 3rd Floor The Portrait of an Effective Teacher: What Well-Rounded Excellence Looks Like Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Welcome to the Real World: From Classroom to Client Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor Bridging the Lab and the Classroom: Cross-Curricular Integration in Biomedical Sciences Brown - East - 2nd Floor HOSA FHP: Competitive Events Updates French - East - 3rd Floor Integrating Public Health into the Classroom Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Fire Science Roundtable Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor The Robot Takeover: Educating Students Today for their Future Tomorrow (Quadrupeds, Humanoids, AI) Collins - East - 2nd Floor Adobe Premiere Tips and Tricks Holly - West - 3rd Floor Creative Futures: Media Arts Pathway Updates Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Hard Hats, Bright Futures! How Gen-Z is Redefining Success and Embracing Careers in Skilled Trades Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Grow Your Own with Educators Rising Laffoon - East - 1st Floor CTE Coordinators, Administrators, Counselors Meeting Archibald - West - 3rd Floor CS Reimagined: A Review of the New National Standards Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Sew with Us: Sawtooth Stars potholders Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Kentucky JROTC Workshop (Session 1) Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Tomorrows Manufacturing for Today’s Student 3 HR OFFSITE/AMIT Bldg

2:30pm EDT

CTE Refreshment Break East Tower - 2nd Floor

3:00pm EDT

Branding Your Program Ballroom A - East - 2nd Floor Kentucky Sheep and Goat Development Office Resources Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor National FFA Updates Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor Transition Planning Fields - East - 3rd Floor SkillsUSA Update Cochran - West - 3rd Floor UDL in the CTE Classroom: Practical Strategies That Work Tomorrow Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor What can we sell? New SBE Guidelines Beckham - East - 3rd Floor Building a WORLD-CLASS Middle School Program Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor It Takes a Team: Supporting and Surviving the First Year Together Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Let's Get Ethical Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor MBA Research Resources for DECA and FBLA Competition Prep McCreary - East - 3rd Floor Teaching Smarter, Not Harder: AI In the Classroom Willis - East - 2nd Floor Tech Across the Curriculum: Embedding Career-Ready Digital Skills Into Every Classroom Clements - East - 2nd Floor CertPREP Practice Tests, powered by GMetrix - Using the Features to the Fullest Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Engaging students and educators with STEAM / STEM with affordable options of curriculum and hardware Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Construction Apprenticeships - What We Need and How We Can Help Lily - West - 2nd Floor 3D Printers and Laser Engravers - How to Make Money and Collaborate with Elementary Schools Sampson - East - 1st Floor Fun and Teachable Moments in Engineering a Guide book Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Culture Before Curriculum- The invisible foundation of success (Building Culture in the Culinary Classroom) Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Interview Bootcamp Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor Raising the Bar: Strengthening EOP Performance Stanley - East - 3rd Floor When Teens Teach: FCS Students as Mentors, Leaders, and Role Models Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Making Med Term Memorable Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Nurse Aide: Organizing ALL the THINGS... French - East - 3rd Floor Teaching Allied Health Made Simple Brown - East - 2nd Floor FBI Teen Academy Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Open-Source Robotics: democratizing technology, reducing cost barriers, and creating HUGE job growth for students Collins - East - 2nd Floor Career Conversations That Matter: Moving Beyond “What Do You Want to Be?” Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Interest to Impact: Growing the Next Generation of Teachers Laffoon - East - 1st Floor

4:00pm EDT

Cultivating Capacity for AI Leadership in Schools Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Stukent CTE - Courses, Simternships, Certification Prep, and Certifications Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Kentucky Master Agriculture Teachers Class Kick Off McCreary - East - 3rd Floor NCCER Overview and Site Navigation - Construction and Manufacturing Roundtable Lily - West - 2nd Floor EV Education on a Budget: Preparing Kentucky’s Automotive Instructors for the Future Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor Empowering Instruction: Effective Strategies for Teaching Medical Terminology Brown - East - 2nd Floor Reviving Sports Medicine: Building a Modern Pathway for Today's Students French - East - 3rd Floor Veterinary Technology: People Serving Animals! Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor AR/VR Learning for Health Science and Other CTE Pathways Collins - East - 2nd Floor Welding the Gap: Integrating Miller OpenBook into Your Digital Classroom. Willow - West - 3rd Floor Unreal Futures: Preparing Students for Careers in Emerging Tech Walnut - West - 3rd Floor CTE Career Lab in the Middle School Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Beyond the Certification: Why the Process Matters for Students with Disabilities Beckham - East - 3rd Floor Project Based Learning 4 Career and Technical Education Clements - East - 2nd Floor Using Linux to Enhance Web Design Instruction Poplar - West - 3rd Floor KATFCS Region 1, 2, and 3 Meeting Cochran - West - 3rd Floor KATFCS Region 11, 12, and 13 Meeting Coe - East - 3rd Floor KATFCS Region 14 Meeting Azalea - West - 2nd Floor KATFCS Region 15 Meeting Nunn - East - 2nd Floor KATFCS Region 4 Meeting Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor KATFCS Region 5 Meeting Stopher - East - 3rd Floor KATFCS Region 6 Meeting Wilson - East - 3rd Floor KATFCS Region 7 Meeting Sampson - East - 1st Floor KATFCS Region 9 and 10 Meeting Stanley - East - 3rd Floor Implementing a Phlebotomy Tech Program through NHA Fields - East - 3rd Floor Peerless VR: De-Escalation Training for Law Enforcement Pathways Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Make a Mandala and get some Project Ideas! Holly - West - 3rd Floor Registered TRACK Apprenticeships Grow Your Own Laffoon - East - 1st Floor

5:30pm EDT

Golden Girls (and Guys) Gathering! French - East - 3rd Floor

7:00pm EDT

KBEA Social Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor

2026 KACTE Summer Program

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