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Seaford High School Prepares Students For College Through New Tech Program

SEAFORD, Del. - Senator Tom Carper dropped in on Seaford High School Monday to tour the New Tech Academy. Seaford High received a $1.3 million grant to implement this hands-on program, that's proven to be a success in 60 other schools. It's uses project-based learning, while practicing 21st century skills like work ethic and collaboration. Senator Carper says it will help prepare the students for college and their careers.

"It brings the outside world right into the classrooms and says this is why you need to understand molecules or cellular structures or literature. It's just a very smart way of doing things," said Senator Carper of Delaware.

"It's teaching us the basic technology skills that we need to succeed in the modern world," said Grant Pollak, a Freshman at Seaford High.

Currently there are almost 200 students in the program. School officials say they hope to have 400 students, of all grade levels, in the next couple of years.