2026 KACTE Summer Program

2026 KACTE Summer Program

8:00am EDT

KATFCS State Board Meeting Nunn - East - 2nd Floor

8:30am EDT

Youth Mental Health First Aid Taylor - East - 3rd Floor

9:00am EDT

Kentucky FCCLA Advisory Board Meeting Brown - East - 2nd Floor

1:00pm EDT

DECA Board Meeting Willis - East - 2nd Floor The AI Fellowship: Shaping the Classroom of Tomorrow Laffoon - East - 1st Floor

ATC Principals Meeting Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Ag- Ed New Teacher Workshop Morrow - East - 3rd Floor New FCS Teacher Workshop + Orientation Nunn - East - 2nd Floor

2:00pm EDT

KAAE Contest Committee Brown - East - 2nd Floor

2:45pm EDT

KAAE Advocacy Committee Meeting Wilson - East - 3rd Floor KAAE Professional Growth and Awards Committee Meeting Stanley - East - 3rd Floor KAAE Scholarship Committee Meeting Stopher - East - 3rd Floor

3:00pm EDT

Conference Registration Grand Hall - East Tower - 2nd Floor FBLA Board Meeting Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor

3:30pm EDT

KAAE Executive Committee Meeting Brown - East - 2nd Floor

6:00pm EDT

Kentucky Farm Bureau CTE Awards Dinner (Invitation Only) Waterford - West - 25th Floor

7:00pm EDT

FCS Education College Student Orientation Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor KATFCS Regional Officer Training Nunn - East - 2nd Floor

7:30pm EDT

KBEA Board Meeting Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor

8:00pm EDT

FCS Back to School Bash Nunn - East - 2nd Floor

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

7:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast East Tower - 2nd Floor CTE Meeting Place Ballroom A - East - 2nd Floor Conference Registration Grand Hall - East Tower - 2nd Floor

8:00am EDT

The Power of Visual Storytelling: Showcasing Your School’s Success Fields - East - 3rd Floor 2027 CTE End-of-Program (EOP) Assessment Update Session Laffoon - East - 1st Floor Connecting Dots, Building Futures: Leveraging Futuriti to Strengthen CTE Program Impact Cochran - West - 3rd Floor Everyone Goes to Work: Work-Based Learning for Transitioning Students Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor Hands-On, Minds-On, Project-Based Learning with Student Voice and Choice. Beckham - East - 3rd Floor From Idea to Impact: Building Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs in Kentucky Classrooms Willis - East - 2nd Floor Invest-Discover Insurance. Launch Your Career. The industry you never knew about but wished that you did. Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Making Cents of it all! Practical Tools for Teaching Personal Finance Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Teaching Employability Skills with AI: Job Creation, Hiring, and Interviews in a Student-Built Business Clements - East - 2nd Floor The Creative Process for Entrepreneurs: Designing a Boardgame Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Beyond the Buzz: Implementing AI with Purpose Across a District Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Educational Drones for Secondary STEM Programs Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Making Nutrition Fun: Hands-On Games and Activities Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor No Loose Threads! A Guide to Smooth Sewing Labs Stanley - East - 3rd Floor NTI First-Year Teachers Session: FCS Classroom Instruction Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Playschool: Little Learners, Student Leaders Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor “Booked for Success” A Back-to-School Hospitality and Tourism Experience Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Raising Hope Partnership with HOSA and FFA Taylor - East - 3rd Floor The Power of Collaboration: Making Learning Relevant for Health Science Students Brown - East - 2nd Floor Call to Classroom: Integrating 911 dispatching curriculum Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Agriculture Off-Site at Seneca Seneca High School Welcome to Teaching Business and Marketing McCreary - East - 3rd Floor Year 1 New Construction Teachers Lily - West - 2nd Floor Engineering Tech Ed - NTI Information Session Sampson - East - 1st Floor Healthcare New Teacher Meeting French - East - 3rd Floor Law and Public Safety (LPS) NTI Year 1 Instructor Meet and Greet Segell - East - 3rd Floor Manufacturing NTI Year One - Let's Talk Willow - West - 3rd Floor Starting Strong: Foundations for Year One Computer Science and Media Arts Teachers Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Transportation NTI Teacher Update Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor Perkins 101 Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor Learning Through Experience: Expansive Learning Through VR Holly - West - 3rd Floor CMRCC (IKORCC) Construction Workshop - Off-Site CMRCC (IKORCC) Kentucky JROTC Workshop (Session 2) Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Ladder and Block Programming. Communication Setup Collins - East - 2nd Floor Get Certified in the Industry Certification Lab! Coe - East - 3rd Floor FCS Nook Nunn - East - 2nd Floor

8:30am EDT

CSI-Day 2 Supporting Students From Exploration to Action: Pathways, ILPs, and Postsecondary Advising Daisy - West - 2nd Floor

9:00am EDT

KTS Data Exchange for High School Schedulers Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor CTE Supplemental Funding: What You Can—and Can’t—Do Sampson - East - 1st Floor Surviving Your First Years of Teaching: Emotions, Classroom Foundations, and High-Yield Strategies Fields - East - 3rd Floor Thriving in the Trades: Implementing Youth Thrive Protective Factors in CTE Classrooms Willow - West - 3rd Floor Best Practices for Teaching Accounting Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Diamond Level DECA Chapters Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Economics of Gambling Willis - East - 2nd Floor KY Master Teacher of Personal Finance Program: Best Practices for Teaching Financial Literacy Standards Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor The Mogul Map: Credit & Cash Flow Clements - East - 2nd Floor Mechatronics and PLCs: Engaging Tools for Modern Engineering Education Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Classroom to Capitol: Why Advocacy Matters Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Hands‑On ECE: Field Trips, Routines, and Real‑World Teaching Opportunities Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor How to Teach Recipe Costing and EP vs AP: How They Work Together Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor NTI First-Year Teachers Session: FCCLA Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Wealth and Wisdom - How to Become a Financial Warrior Stanley - East - 3rd Floor PLTW: BIOMEDICAL ROUNDTABLES Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Simulation Without the Stress: Best Practices for Teaching, Not Grading, in CTE Healthcare Programs Brown - East - 2nd Floor What Makes Us Who We Are: Personality Traits and Disorders Beckham - East - 3rd Floor CTE Teachers Plan to Empower Futures: Backward Design Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Incorporating STLP's CDA Events into Graphic Design Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Seal of Arts Excellence: Building Media Arts Portfolios Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Designing for Joy: Using Project-Based Learning to Sustain Teachers Laffoon - East - 1st Floor

10:00am EDT

DIY Data-Dual Credit and Work Based Learning Lily - West - 2nd Floor TEDS Secondary Schools Update Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor Connecting Career and Technical Education to Persistence to Graduation Fields - East - 3rd Floor From Classroom to Career: Teaching with AI the Way Industry Uses It Cochran - West - 3rd Floor From Classroom to Factory Floor: Industry Immersion for Educators Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Dual Credit Tips and Discussion Willis - East - 2nd Floor Financial Fraud Awareness: Spot it. Stop it. Stay Safe. Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor How to Prepare Students for the EOP and Industry Certifications Morrow - East - 3rd Floor How to use AI as a Digital Teaching Assistant Clements - East - 2nd Floor Making Work Count: Teaching Career-Ready Skills Through Business Co-op McCreary - East - 3rd Floor MBA Research 101: What is it and how to use Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Where AI Meets Cyber: Teaching the Future of Digital Defense Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Introduction to EbD Civil Engineering Course Sampson - East - 1st Floor Introduction to MicroStation Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Becoming Self-Sufficient with Home-Based Processing Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Beyond the Classroom: The Power of Community Service Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Engagement-More than an Educational Buzzword! Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Tech Assisted FCS Systems- Let AI lighten your workload in the FCS classroom and lab Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor The University of Louisville Cardinal CDA Goes to High School! Stanley - East - 3rd Floor EdTech for CTE Teachers (especially Health Science, but really for everyone!) French - East - 3rd Floor NHA Success Navigator: Empowering Excellence in Healthcare Education - Charting the Course to Maximize NHA Tools for Student and Program Success Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Organ Donation - Education, Impact and Career Pathways Beckham - East - 3rd Floor The Biggest Organ Brown - East - 2nd Floor National Law Enforcement Exam - Administration and Success Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Industry-Ready 3D Printing: Building Workforce Skills in CTE Using Bambu Lab Technology Willow - West - 3rd Floor From Pathway to Pipeline: Planting the Foundation Laffoon - East - 1st Floor Exploring Modern Laboratory Technologies in CTE Classrooms with Labtech Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor

11:30am EDT

Lunch East Tower - 2nd Floor KY Engineering Tech Ed. Association Lunch (RSVP Required) Stopher - East - 3rd Floor TSA Updates Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Midday Mingle with Health Science/HOSA French - East - 3rd Floor

1:00pm EDT

IEP Team Player: Boost Your Special Education Skills and Confidence Fields - East - 3rd Floor Unlocking Kentucky’s Industry Certification List for Student Success Beckham - East - 3rd Floor WBL Shuffle (OCTE) Archibald - West - 3rd Floor Business Beyond Profit, Turning Vacant lots into Student-Led Business Ventures McCreary - East - 3rd Floor DECA Update/MEEAK Business Meeting Willis - East - 2nd Floor Keeping It Honest Morrow - East - 3rd Floor Reimagining Business and Marketing Essentials Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor The Accounting Evolution: Panel Q and A Clements - East - 2nd Floor Building Career Pathways with CYBER.ORG's No Cost Cybersecurity Curriculum Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Local 502 - Skilled Trade Apprenticeships Lily - West - 2nd Floor Engineering Fundamental Labs for a Solid Foundation Stopher - East - 3rd Floor Getting Started with Arduino Using TinkerCad Sampson - East - 1st Floor Back to School and Back to Standards: Refreshing Middle School FCS Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Culinary and Food Services Skill Share Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Elements and Principles of Design - How to teach these concepts in FCS classes Stanley - East - 3rd Floor Incorporating "Portrait of a Learner" in the classroom, lab, and CTSO's Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Strengthening Child Development Instruction: Using KET and PBS Resources in High School FCS Classrooms Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor Community Preparedness in Action: The HOSA/MRC Partnership French - East - 3rd Floor From Rhythm to Response: Building ECG Competency Through Simulation Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Mind Matters: Caring for Mental Health, Anxiety, and Depression Brown - East - 2nd Floor Kentucky JROTC For Administrators, Counselors and CTE Coordinators Azalea - West - 2nd Floor A Different Kind of Digital Breakout Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor Robotics and Automation in the Classroom Cochran - West - 3rd Floor What Changed and Why: Graphics Design Standards Updates Holly - West - 3rd Floor Designing Industry Partnerships that Build Authentic Career and Transition Readiness for Every Student, with Intentional Access for Students with Disabilities (SWD) Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Bridging Language and Career Pathways: Empowering English Learners in Career and Technical Education Programs Laffoon - East - 1st Floor ASE Updates Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor Financial Literacy Education Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Building Models with Machine Learning Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Machine Simulation Driven CNC Training for Modern Manufacturing Willow - West - 3rd Floor Mechatronics Collins - East - 2nd Floor

2:30pm EDT

CTE Refreshment Break East Tower - 2nd Floor

3:00pm EDT

Employer Engagement in CTE Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor Bridging Classroom to Career Through Workplace Knowledge Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor

Connecting Classrooms to Careers: Industry Partnerships that Work Beckham - East - 3rd Floor Everyone Goes to Work: Work-Based Learning for Transitioning Students Laffoon - East - 1st Floor Removing Barriers, Building Futures: The McKinney-Vento Act and Career and Technical Education Stopher - East - 3rd Floor SkillsUSA Regional Meetings Cochran - West - 3rd Floor Soft Skills Are Power Skills: Teaching Employability Intentionally Fields - East - 3rd Floor DECA Competition Prep Strategies Willis - East - 2nd Floor NTI Teachers - Intro to DECA McCreary - East - 3rd Floor Straight from State: The Kentucky FBLA Update Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Changing Students Lives with Certiport Industry Certifications Poplar - West - 3rd Floor Preparing for Kentucky’s AI Pathway: Curriculum Resources and Practical AI Tools Holly - West - 3rd Floor TSA Information Session for NTI Year 2 Sampson - East - 1st Floor A Creative CTE Collaboration - Teddy Bear Hospital Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor Inside Today’s Hospitality Industry: Trends, Travel, and Career Pathways Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Member Burnout and Managing Members Nunn - East - 2nd Floor NTI Year 2: Meet and Greet and Wrap-Up Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Spot the Scam: Current Financial Fraud Trends and Prevention Stanley - East - 3rd Floor You Eat with Your Eyes First: Teaching Students the Art of Plate Presentation and Design Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor From Classroom Support to College Success: AHEC’s Student Pipeline Taylor - East - 3rd Floor HOSA Advisor Success: Foundations for New Advisors French - East - 3rd Floor Patient Care Technician Programs: Steps to Building a Strong Foundation Brown - East - 2nd Floor Kentucky JROTC For Administrators, Counselors and CTE Coordinators Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Adventures and Misadventures in Student-Paced Learning Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor SACA - The American Dollar of Manufacturing Certifications Lily - West - 2nd Floor Pathways to Possibility: Bringing Career Exploration and Financial Literacy to Life in Middle School Daisy - West - 2nd Floor Transportation Roundtable Dogwood - West - 3rd Floor

4:00pm EDT

DIY Data-Dual Credit and Work Based Learning Lily - West - 2nd Floor The Redesign of a Successful High School Willis - East - 2nd Floor Jumpstart Your Middle School CTE Teaching Journey: Tools, Tips, and Strategies Beckham - East - 3rd Floor Teaching Tools from the Feds Clements - East - 2nd Floor KETEA Executive Committee Meeting Sampson - East - 1st Floor Bringing Vocabulary to Life in the Classroom Nunn - East - 2nd Floor Foundations of Child Services 1 and 2 Breathitt - East - 2nd Floor From Telling to Showing: Transforming Teacher Preparation in the Fundamentals of Teaching Pathway Wilson - East - 3rd Floor Practical Lesson Plans For High School Culinary Carroll Ford - East - 2nd Floor Winning the Gavel Stanley - East - 3rd Floor Beyond the Bus: Purposeful Field Trips Through Simulation Experiences Taylor - East - 3rd Floor Support and Supplies from SOS Brown - East - 2nd Floor Trauma Informed Care Wilkinson - East - 1st Floor Kentucky JROTC For Administrators, Counselors and CTE Coordinators Azalea - West - 2nd Floor Every Adult Matters: Building a School Prevention Workforce Collins - East - 2nd Floor Chat Who? Ask the Experts: Adviser Insights You Can't Google Combs Chandler - East - 2nd Floor Computer Science by Abstraction - A Proven Approach to Advanced CS Education Holly - West - 3rd Floor Implementing OpenEDG Industry-Recognized Certifications in CTE Pathways Poplar - West - 3rd Floor KNAT Program UPDATE French - East - 3rd Floor Sampling iCEV Lessons for LPS Classrooms Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor 3D Fundamentals Certification: A New Pathway for Student Creators with Unreal Engine and Gameplan Walnut - West - 3rd Floor Growing High-Impact CTE Programs Through Communication, Data Reflection, and Partnerships. Highlights and Successes from a top 5% career readiness KY high school Daisy - West - 2nd Floor

5:30pm EDT

KACTE Annual Business Meeting Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor

6:00pm EDT

KY Jump$tart Coalition Annual Awards Dinner Waterford - West - 25th Floor KACTE Member Event Patrick O'Shea's

7:30am EDT

Joining Forces (RSVP Required) Cochran - West - 3rd Floor

8:00am EDT

Certiport: Choosing an Exam Delivery System Poplar - West - 3rd Floor

8:30am EDT

Ag-Ed Roundtables Archibald - West - 3rd Floor Transportation and Manufacturing Breakfast Buffet (RSVP Required) McCreary - East - 3rd Floor Law and Public Safety (LPS) Program Area Breakfast and Giveaways! (RSVP Required) Jasmine - West - 2nd Floor 120 in 365: Every County in the Commonwealth Needs Doctors French - East - 3rd Floor Construction Breakfast Roundtable (RSVP Required) Lily - West - 2nd Floor KATFCS Awards Brunch and Business Session (RSVP Required) Ballroom C - East - 2nd Floor

9:00am EDT

U.S. Army JROTC Update Session Azalea - West - 2nd Floor KBEA Brunch (RSVP Required) Ballroom B - East - 2nd Floor Bluegrass Blueprints: Launching Kentucky’s Custom Engineering byDesign Curriculum Sampson - East - 1st Floor

10:00am EDT

U.S. Air Force JROTC Update Session Azalea - West - 2nd Floor KAAE Annual Meeting and Awards Archibald - West - 3rd Floor

11:00am EDT

U.S. Navy JROTC Update Session Azalea - West - 2nd Floor

12:00pm EDT

U.S. Marine Corps JROTC Update Session Azalea - West - 2nd Floor

2026 KACTE Summer Program

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