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Miller Career & Technology Center students and parents,

The 2024 - 2025 school year is off to a great start! Our staff has enjoyed welcoming back our returning students and getting to know our new students. We hope you all have begun to settle into a routine at MCTC and your home campuses. Please read below for a few updates and reminders.

Kelley Kirila

Principal, MCTC

Are you interested in food, prizes, and fun? Join our SkillsUSA chapters for the 24-25 kick-off meeting on Thursday, August 29th from 4:00 - 6:00 PM at the Robert R. Shaw Center (next to Miller).

SkillsUSA is Miller's main career and technical student organization. The organization focuses on developing career skills, building student resumes, completing community service, and participating in district competition (and then possibly state and national competitions).

This year, we have developed a MCTC EPIC² Student Canvas course, where we will share information with students and parent observers regarding whole-campus procedures, activities, and initiatives. This is just one other source of communication with our community. All students have already been added to the course and therefore, parents have observer access.

On Thursday, August 15th and Friday, August 16th, the administrative team met with all students to review MCTC processes, procedures, and expectations. Linked below is the PowerPoint we talked through. Please click on the buttons below to view the Dress for Success dress code model used across the district and the MCTC Discipline Consequences sheet for Tardies and Dress Code.

BOY Student Assembly

Any students who were absent on these days have been assigned a module for completion in our MCTC EPIC² Student Canvas course to complete.

Please click on the button below to view the 2024 - 2025 Katy ISD Semester Exam Exemption criteria. Miller Career & Technology Center follows these exemption expectations and coordinates with home campuses.

Katy ISD encourages high school students to pursue their areas of special talents and interests to enrich their academic experience in Career and Technical Education (CTE), Fine Arts, and Athletics. Many CTE courses offered at Miller Career & Technology Center qualify as GPA exempt courses.

What that means: Once approved, students will receive credit for the qualifying GPA exempt course but will have their grade excluded from the GPA and class rank computation. In order to apply for a GPA exemption, students must currently have a 4.0 or above GPA and maintain a B average in the GPA exempt course to maintain eligibility. Students may take a maximum of three (3) credits on a GPA exempt basis during their high school career.

The GPA Exempt Courses Information and Online Application are located within the GPA Exempt tile on MyKaty Cloud.

If a student is interested in applying for a GPA exemption for a qualifying course he/she is currently enrolled in and meets all the criteria above, he/she needs to:

1. Complete the online GPA Exempt application located in MyKaty Cloud.
2. Submit the application no later than the determined deadline (Thursday, September 19). At this time, if all criteria are met, it will be approved, and a course change will be made to reflect enrollment in a GPA Exempt course.
3. Once the student makes the decision to take a course as GPA-exempt, the decision is final and cannot be changed.
4. Students enrolled in full-year courses do not need to reapply during the second semester.
5. Students, including move-in students, who miss the deadline for application for the first semester, may apply for exemption for the second semester if they meet the criteria.

2024 - 2025 GPA Exempt Course Information

Students have 3 options to travel to and from Miller Career & Technology Center:

1. Students may take District-provided bus transportation (Specific route information below.)
2. Students may drive themselves to and from Miller (See Parking Permit Information below.)
3. Students may be dropped off and picked up (see locations below).

District bus transportation to and from Miller is provided. To find your bus pick-up/drop-off location, access the District-wide Bus Map on our homepage.

To search the map: You will type your home address in the "Find address or place" box in the top left corner of the map and search. Your home will appear on the map, and the closest bus stop will show up in the left-hand bar, along with the pick-up and drop-off times for this location.

Please note: These routes are for AM pick-up (bring you to Miller for 1st period) or PM drop-off (take you to neighborhood drop-off from Miller after 7th period) only. Separate shuttle buses run from Miller back to home campuses after 3rd period and 4th period and from home campuses to Miller 5th period.

For our 1st AM Cohort students who ride the bus to Miller (1st - 3rd periods at Miller)

After 3rd period dismissal (9:45 AM), students will exit the building on the Rhodes Stadium side and board a bus to head back to home campus.

For our 2nd AM Cohort students who ride the bus to Miller (1st - 4th periods at Miller)

After 4th period dismissal (10:40 AM), students will exit the building on the Rhodes Stadium side and board a bus to head back to home campus.

For our PM Cohort students who ride the bus to Miller (5th - 7th periods at Miller)

Please ask an administrator on your campus where the designated pick-up location will be. Make sure you are at the designated spot and ready to board the bus at the times listed below.

Estimated pick-up times are:

11:50 AM - Jordan

11:55 AM - Cinco Ranch, Mayde Creek, Morton Ranch, Paetow, Taylor, and Tompkins

11:58 AM - Seven Lakes

12:00 PM - Katy

All students who drive a vehicle to Miller Career & Technology Center (MCTC) must display a MCTC permit on the front lower right (interior passenger side) window. Payment and application for a permit is required in Pay 'N Go BEFORE driving to MCTC. Please note: Students who drive a vehicle without a permit will be fined.

Instructions:

1. Pay the $10.00 permit fee through Pay 'N Go. Write down your confirmation number.
2. Complete the 24-25 Parking Permit Request form (form requires uploading a copy of student's valid Texas Driver License, proof of current insurance for the vehicle, and Pay 'N Go confirmation #).

• Electronically acknowledge terms of the Parking Agreement (within the Google request form).
• Complete the Permission for Student/Parent-Provided Transportation (within the Google request form).

Mission: To develop college- and career-ready students through engaging, real-world experiences.

Email: mctc@katyisd.org
Website: www.katyisd.org/campus/MCTC
Location: 1734 Katyland Drive, Katy, TX, USA
Phone: (281) 237-6300
Facebook: facebook.com/Miller-Career-and-Technology-Center-101006498668937
Twitter: @MCTC_RealWorld